Horst Lommer (writer)

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Horst Lommer (born November 19, 1904 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin , † October 17, 1969 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German poet and actor .

Life

Horst Lommer was born on November 19, 1904 in Lichterfelde near Berlin as the son of the doctor Dr. Hermann Lommer born. After attending the humanistic grammar school , he studied history , German and philosophy in Berlin . His school friend Sebastian Haffner persuaded him to attend the State Drama School in Berlin . After training as an actor with Leopold Jessner, various engagements followed in Gera, Königsberg, Düsseldorf and Cologne.

Under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens , Horst Lommer played almost exclusively supporting roles in the following years alongside what was then the first guard of actors at the Berlin State Theater . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1934 . In the film Jud Suss (1940) he played the role of an officer.

A close friendship developed with the director Jürgen Fehling . During this time he wrote his first stage pieces, mostly harmless comedies. In addition, Horst Lommer also wrote contemporary poems. He learned his satirical “Thousand Years Reich” by heart and thus saved it over the time of National Socialism . In June 1945 he performed it for the first time together with the actors Paul Bildt and Walter Frank in Berlin. After all theaters were closed in the summer of 1944, Lommer went into hiding. He owed his survival until the end of the war to his friend Peter Huchel , who hid him in a friend's house until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Lommer lived as a freelance writer in West and East Berlin. He was an employee of the “ Weltbühne ”, the “ Daily Rundschau ”, the “ Tagesspiegel ”, the “ Ulenspiegel ” and the “Berliner Rundfunk”. He was a member of the board of the “ Protection Association of German Authors ” until its dissolution in May 1951. In addition to the publication of the volume of poems “Das Tausendjahres Reich” (also public readings) and the revue “Die Höllenparade”, political broadcasts (including “From the Nazis' vocabulary book”), poems (“From time to time”) and Drama ("Thersites and Helena", "Noah's Ark").

Lommer left the GDR and moved to the Federal Republic, to Frankfurt am Main . There he worked as an editor for the American-funded cultural magazine “Die Aktion”. This was followed by work as a copywriter. The politically left-wing Lommer was considered a communist in the Federal Republic and was therefore given little opportunity to publish under his name or to appear as an actor.

In the mid-1950s, Horst Lommers began working as an author and actor in the Düsseldorf literary cabaret " Das Kom (m) ödchen ". The first television games were made at the end of the 1950s, initially for the radio department of the then NWDR . As a result of the collaboration, Lommer moved to Lübeck with his wife and son . In addition to his work for radio, he was then mainly known as the author of television games ( NDR , Südwestfunk ) until 1969 . In the television play department of the NDR under Egon Monk , Lommer was responsible for the satirical-comedic element. Peter Beauvais directed all of the Lommer plays produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

Horst Lommer died on October 17, 1969 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His estate is deposited in the film archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Untererm Notdach: Post-War Literature in Berlin 1945-1949 . Schmidt, Berlin 1996, pp. 546f
  2. ↑ Horst Lommer Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Lommer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Lichterfelde
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1969
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg