Johannes Conrad (satirist)

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Johannes Conrad (born December 24, 1929 in Radeberg ; † March 24, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German satirist , writer , caricaturist and actor .

Life

Johannes Conrad was born on December 24, 1929 in Radeberg. He was the son and the first child of the master body plumber Adolf Conrad (1904–1968) and his wife Frieda, geb. Kottwitz (1908-1992). His father came from Bochum and came to Radeberg in the late 1920s looking for a job as a bodywork plumber, where he found work for the company "Glasses-Karosseriewerk Radeberg" .

In 1938 the family moved into a newly built half of the settlement in the Radeberg suburban settlement , where Johannes Conrad spent his childhood and youth. After graduating from elementary school in Radeberg, he began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in the Sachsenwerk in Radeberg in 1944 , which in 1945 had to be broken off in the final weeks of the war when he was called to the " Volkssturm " in the Dresden grenadier barracks . Because the Sachsenwerk was almost completely dismantled after the end of the war, he had to continue his apprenticeship as a toolmaker in the Radeberg glass bodywork. In 1946 he switched to the part of the Sachsenwerk that had been taken over by Lorenz AG as an apprentice . The other part had meanwhile become a SAG company , where Conrad worked until August 1948 as a toolmaker and technical draftsman. He graduated from the Dresden Workers 'and Farmers' Faculty (ABF) by 1950 and began studying architecture at the TH Dresden (now TU) in 1950 . In 1951 he broke off his studies and went to Bochum, where he worked as a locksmith in the vehicle construction company EH von Lienen and took private acting lessons from Alfons Mathée. In Bochum he met his future wife Klara. The couple had 5 children. From 1956 the family lived in Berlin. Johannes Conrad died on March 24, 2005 as a result of a heart operation

Act

actor

In 1956 Conrad applied to be an actor at the Berliner Ensemble (BE) and was personally engaged by Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). Until his retirement in 1996, Conrad worked as an actor at the BE. With his art of representation, he also gave special weight to smaller roles. He participated in most of the productions and traveled as an ensemble member to international guest performances in Europe, Canada, Mexico and Colombia. Conrad took part in the television recording of Baierl’s "Frau Flinz", and he was heard in 3 radio plays on the GDR record label LITERA with works by Brecht. On the occasion of Helene Weigel's 80th birthday, Conrad and Willi Schwabe honored their former director with a homage .

cabaret artist

In 1964 Helene Weigel engaged the actor Peter Sodann at the BE. Conrad and Sodann developed a joint cabaret work, e.g. B. “What kind of times those were”, with texts by Conrad and Sodann and under Sodann's direction. On the occasion of Brecht's birthday in 1964, at Weigel's request and with Sodann's production, a successful “Cabaret Revue” with the title “Night Shift No. 1” was created; the texts were written by Johannes Conrad and Peter Sodann. From 1965 to 1970, the “BE night program” ran under Conrad's direction as a result, he was one of the initiators and authors. In this context, Conrad was able to realize its own program under the title “Permit: Conrad”. In 1979 he realized another program of his own at the BE: "KNUPPEPÜTZE, world premiere of a Johannes Conrad cabaret text". From 1966 to 1977 Conrad wrote texts for 5 programs for the Berlin cabaret “Die Distel” .

Satirist - writer

In the late 1950s he began to write for the humor and satirical magazine "Eulenspiegel" and was one of the main authors of the magazine for over 4 decades. His style had a lasting impact on the "Eulenspiegel", his literary home, so that he was also called the " Woody Allen of GDR humor". Together with Jochen Petersdorf, Conrad developed a supplement to the “Eulenspiegel” and this “Funzel. Evening paper for cloudy hours "called. His columns, stories, novellas and poems were popular with the general public and also highly valued in satirical circles. He also wrote and drew for the GDR weekly newspaper " Wochenpost ", for the humor page of the "Free World" and for the "BZA" .

Works

His literary work consists of 19 books (plus 1 anthology), of which

  • 11 volumes with a total of 296 stories / novellas / narratives,
  • 4 volumes of poetry with over 250 poems,
  • 3 "nonsense" volumes with around 1000 aphorisms and texts and
  • 1 "British humorous crook novel".

There are also around 300 stories in the satirical magazine "Eulenspiegel" and countless columns in the Eulenspiegel column "Funzel". Conrad illustrated 5 of his books himself, including “Das Hornvieh is milked” with 55 drawings of his “ingenious and bizarre inventions”.

Books

Johannes Conrad, complete. Directory of his books
  • The horn . Verses and vignettes. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1967. Two editions until 1970.
  • And Pinkie is sleeping on my sofa . Confessions of a gentleman. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1972.
  • Mac is tickled . Stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1973. Two editions until 1977.
  • The hare is silent on his evening song . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1976
  • Back from Mars flight, General! Cheerful stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1977. Three editions until 1979.
  • The night when there was a knock . Cheerful stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1978. Two editions until 1982.
  • Pumpkins in the cosmos . Cheerful stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1980. Two editions until 1986.
  • The night when there was a knock. Mac is tickled. Back from Mars flight. General!. Pumpkins in the cosmos. (Anthology); Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1981. OCLC 312667629
  • The horned cattle are milked . Nonsense in picture, verse and prose. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1986. Two editions until 1989.
  • I see buttercups bloom . Poems. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1981. Two editions until 1987. ISBN 3-359-00158-3
  • The thin one in the Pannonia Express . Stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1982. Two editions until 1984.
  • 24 hours in hell . Stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1984. Two editions until 1985.
  • O linden tree, O linden tree . Poems. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1985.
  • The pineal gland and other beautiful stories . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-359-00223-7
  • Blow the horn, bugler! Nonsense No. 2. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, East Berlin 1989
  • That comes from laying eggs! All nonsense. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-359-00735-2
  • The wild little coffee machines . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995. ISBN 3-596-12332-1
  • Actor life . Old and new stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-359-00899-5
  • Children, pure madness . With Heinz Jankofsky (illustrations). Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-359-01624-6
  • Tame as half a frog . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-359-02241-1

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays (speaker)

literature

  • Klaus Schönfuß: Across the human soul ; Johannes Conrad (1929–2005) - A Radeberg writer, satirist and actor . In: Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte. Volume 13, 2015; (Ed .: Large district town Radeberg in cooperation with the AG Stadtgeschichte).
  • Renate Schönfuß: Can't someone tell you something? What amusing? In: “Die Radeberger” No. 11 from March 20, 2015; Archive “die Radeberger”, edition 11/2015 (PDF), accessed on March 7, 2019.
  • Klaus Schönfuß: Johannes Conrad (1929–2005) - A Radeberg writer, satirist and actor. Continuation in 3 parts, In: "Die Radeberger" November 20 to December 18, 2015; Archive “die Radeberger”, ed. 46/2015, 47/2015 and 49/2015 (PDF), accessed on March 7, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Dieter Schütt: God, so confused? Retrieved on February 5, 2016 (In: Neues Deutschland November 18, 2009).
  2. ^ DDR-Hörspiele.net. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 5, 2016 ; Retrieved on February 5, 2016 (Johannes Conrad in recordings of Brecht pieces). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ddr-hoerspiele.net
  3. ↑ Johannes Conrad, Willi Schwabe and Helene Weigel: Helene Weigel (1900–1971) on her 80th birthday: irreplaceable - but always with us; In: Theater der Zeit 05/1980 p. 22 ff. (Magazine) .
  4. ↑ Manfred Wekwerth: Biographical. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.manfredwekwerth.de
  5. ^ Distel - Programs with Authors, Actors, Directed 1953–2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 3, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.distel-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Radeberg
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2005
Place of death Berlin