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Josefine Klee-Helmdach (born January 26, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 2, 1994 ), née Klee, was a German radio editor , radio play speaker , director , theater and television actress .

Career

The Schillerschule , a secondary school for girls (Lyzeum) in Frankfurt am Main, in 1908

Josefine Klee attended the Schillerschule in Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen district , at the time a secondary school for girls, which enabled the girls to graduate from high school from 1911 and became a training school in 1914/15.

Klee-Helmdach attended drama school in Frankfurt am Main. She then had stage engagements as a theater actress at the Stadttheater Essen , the Stadttheater Königsberg , in Munich , at the Altona City Theater and in Leipzig .

After the Second World War , employees who were unaffected by National Socialism were wanted for the radio. US control officer and censor Golo Mann , responsible for personnel selection and programming at Radio Frankfurt , came across Klee-Helmdach. From March 1946, the 43-year-old worked for the children's radio of the station founded by the Americans in the previous year and of the Hessischer Rundfunk that was formed from it in 1948/49 , which she headed for 22 years until 1968. Initially located in the old broadcasting house on Eschersheimer Landstrasse , which had been poorly restored after being destroyed by bombardment , on June 1, 1951, it moved to the new broadcasting station on Dornbusch on Bertramstrasse and Bertramswiese. The children's radio programs were produced in the studios of the rededicated so-called rotunda, which was originally intended to be the seat of the German Bundestag if Frankfurt am Main had become the federal capital. Simultaneously with the introduction of its second radio program (today: hr2) on October 15, 1950, the children's radio received daily airtime, always five minutes before the 7 p.m. news.

1946: Radio Frankfurt on Eschersheimer Landstrasse

Klee-Helmdach was there when Eberhard Beckmann was appointed by the Americans on June 1, 1946 , as the first German post-war director of Radio Frankfurt. She was also there when Beckmann received the broadcasting license for Hessischer Rundfunk from General Lucius D. Clay on January 18, 1949 , and when the US control officer Robert H. Lochner was dismissed on May 24, 1949. Another important milestone was the establishment of the Sound Archive of the German Broadcasting Corporation (now: Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv ), which was decided on November 11, 1950 and implemented on January 1, 1952, and which was relocated to the Hessischer Rundfunk on the grounds of the radio house at Dornbusch in Frankfurt. This made it possible, through donations from other broadcasters, to be able to use more and more sound and noise recordings for children's radio plays without having to have them imitated in each individual case by an experienced noisemaker .

“Aunt Jo and her little gang” in front of the studio microphone, Josefine Klee-Helmdach crouching in front right

Initially regarded by the Office of Military Government for Germany (US) (OMGUS) as an instrument of re- education , the Hessian children's radio and the Klee-Helmdach were particularly popular with the weekly program "Tante Jo and her little gang", every Sunday at 2 p.m. As "Aunt Jo", she always played a key role with a group of changing children along with "Uncle Wullewatz", for many years and for many children from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and neighboring reception areas, becoming an institution to which the post-war generation attached itself vividly remembered today.

“ We are cheerful, always happy, we and our Aunt Jo! - Anyone who listens to the radio in Hessenlande also knows us, the little gang. - If you liked it, dear children, tune in again next Sunday! "

- Original sound from Radio Frankfurt and Hessischer Rundfunk

In the second half of the 1940s, radio was the most important information and entertainment medium for the German population, including children and young people. Until about the age of 14 the listeners, as well as many adults, listened to the programs in which “Aunt Jo” taught her “small gang”. In the 1950s radio (meaning radio ) became a cult medium, and every second child under the age of 14 listened to children's programs almost every day. This explains Klee-Helmdachs importance and level of awareness. “Aunt Jo and her little gang” was the counterpart to Berlin's “Uncle Tobias” from RIAS ( Fritz Genschow ) or “Uncle Eduard” from NWDR or later NDR ( Eduard Marks ). The heyday of radio continued until the 1960s, when television became increasingly popular and took on many functions.

Klee-Helmdach enjoyed a good reputation among colleagues. The head of women's radio at Radio Frankfurt, who also started there in 1946, Dr. med. Gabriele Strecker , described her as "the always amiable head of children's radio, far too busy ..."

Klee-Helmdach was involved in numerous events outside the Funkhaus, some with her “small gang”, for example before children's screenings in Frankfurt film theaters (including in the Metro im Schwan in Steinweg) or with the children's choir of the hr.

She has directed a number of radio productions and radio plays. In 1961 she took over the direction of the radio play version of the children's book “ Die kleine Hexe ” by Otfried Preußler for the hr .

Klee-Helmdach was one of the protagonists in Hesse who shaped the radio program in its heyday, alongside Peter Frankenfeld , Otto Höpfner , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Heinz Schenk , who stood for the radio program in the 1950s. The well-known series " Die Hesselbachs " by and with Wolf Schmidt also started there as a radio play with a total of 77 episodes up to 1956. Klee-Helmdach's contact with Liesel Christ and Lia Wöhr was therefore inevitable. After 1971 she appeared repeatedly as a partner of Liesel Christ at their Frankfurt Volkstheater .

After her time at children's radio, Klee-Helmdach was involved in other radio play productions, theater performances and in television programs and series.

Even in old age, Josefine Klee-Helmdach was still fully aware of the current interests and issues of children and adolescents and was able to communicate with this age group in a way that barely noticeable the age difference, which has become even greater since her time at the hr children's radio.

She died at the age of 91 in the medical-geriatric clinic of the deaconess hospital in Frankfurt's Nordend district and was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

Radio (excerpt)

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Theater (excerpt)

Works (excerpt)

  • Locomotive 1414 goes on vacation. Photo from 1952. DAV. Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-89813-933-5 MP3 download
  • Frierefritz , as Frau Kälte, produced by Hessischer Rundfunk und Junior-Film GmbH, 1976. Directed by Petra Baum, music by Alois Ickstadt . Ariola 662734
  • Me and my sister Klara , as Aunt Flora. Author Dimiter Inkiow . Directed by Petra Baum, music by Alois Ickstadt. Ariola 26280 XAW
  • Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver - Episode 3: From Kummerland to Lummerland Phonogram 1971, directed by Michael Ende
  • The upset Peter . Popular children's songs to sing along to. Poly tape 7035
  • Struwwelpeter cantata for children . Music Kurt Hessenberg . Polyband CS 1255-6
  • The little gang in the Hessischer Rundfunk. hrMedia. Frankfurt am Main 1999

Friends of former radio children

In 1983, on the occasion of Josefine Klee-Helmdach's 80th birthday, the Funkkinder- und Purzelgruppe had come together to remember the time of their joint appearances on the children's radio even in adulthood. These meetings took place regularly afterwards.

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 358.
  • Gabriele Strecker: Survival is not enough: Women 1945–1950. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981. ISBN 3-4510-7915-1 .
  • Horst Heidtmann: On the history of children's radio in the Federal Republic. In: Everyone listen: Children want radio. Society for media education and communication culture (ed.). Bielefeld 2002.
  • Sabine Hock : Liesel Christ. Folk actress. A biography. Waldemar Kramer publishing house. Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-782-90546-6 .
  • Helga Schwuchow: We children of the 40s and 50s. Grew up in Frankfurt. Wartberg publishing house. Gudensberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-8313-1834-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main: Inventory name Klee-Helmdach, Josefine. Signature S 1/345, running time: approx. 1920–1994
  2. ↑ radio man. I was doubly ashamed . on: spiegel.de
  3. ↑ The heyday of radio - beginnings of television, 1949–1959, Chronik des Hessischer Rundfunks on: hr-online.de
  4. ↑ Broadcasting History. The sound of the zero hour on: spiegel.de
  5. ↑ Robert H. Lochner on his 85th birthday on: dra.de
  6. ↑ Interview by Hans-Peter Hess (hr) with Josefine Klee-Helmdach, Tape 3, 1984
  7. ↑ Helga Schwuchow: We children of the 40s and 50s. Grew up in Frankfurt.
  8. ↑ a b Horst Heidtmann: We are cheerful, always happy, we and our aunt Jo. On the history of children's radio in the Federal Republic. 2002. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: online at hdm-stuttgart.de , PDF file, 77 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hdm-stuttgart.de
  9. ↑ Dr. Gabriele Strecker: Survival is not enough: Women 1945–1950 . P. 23
  10. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: fairy tale films for children in Frankfurt cinemas  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: beim-im-kino.stoer.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / beim-im-kino.stoer.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / beim-im-kino.stoer.de  
  11. ↑ The story of a journey from Germany to Germany Lexicon of German crime authors
  12. ↑ Die kleine Hexe ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), www.hoerspieleipps.net
  13. ^ Sabine Hock: Liesel Christ. Folk actress. A biography. P. 163
  14. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 69, p. 456
  15. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 87, p. 147
  16. ↑ Notes on the interview with Josefine Klee-Helmdach by Hans-Peter Hess (hr), 1984
  17. ↑ For children she was "Aunt Jo". Josefine Klee-Helmdach died at the age of 91. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 5, 1994, No. 231, p. 46
  18. ↑ Radio plays with Josefine Klee-Helmdach on: hoerdat.in-berlin.de
  19. ↑ Jovan Evermann, Thomas Hruska: The new series guide. The lexicon of all series on German television from the beginning until today. Volume 1. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2004. ISBN 3896025139
  20. ↑ We are cheerful, always happy . In: Senior magazine Frankfurt 2/2003. P. 41 ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on: senioren-zeitschrift-frankfurt.de (PDF file, 3.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Klee helmet roof, Josefine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio editor, director, theater and television actress and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1994
Place of death Frankfurt am Main