Karl Pündter

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Karl Johann Franz Pündter (born March 21, 1883 in Munich ; † December 15, 1975 in Hamburg-Altona ) was a German actor , director , radio play speaker and, after 1945, head of the school radio department at NWDR in Hamburg.

Life

Karl Pündter was born in his parents' apartment (Lindemannstrasse 21 in Munich). His parents were the Bavarian prime lieutenant Franz Xaver Martin Gustav Ludwig Emil Pündter and his wife Carolina Maria Auguste, née Sauer, both of Protestant faith . His younger brother Ernst Pündter also moved to Hamburg in 1924 to join the newly founded Nordische Rundfunk AG , where both of them often worked together as speakers and directors in the early radio plays (called broadcast games at the time).

Pündter completed his training as an actor with the court actor Eugen Gura in Munich. His first engagement took him in September 1904 to Annaberg in the Ore Mountains at the local theater. Then he came to the Princely Court Theater in Gera . At that time he was assigned to the role of heroes and heroes .

At that time his repertoire included:

After that, the Munich resident shifted his artistic focus to northern Germany. Stralsund , Neustrelitz , Stettin , Magdeburg and Lübeck were the further stations of his theater career.

On September 16, 1924, Pündter came to the radio station in Hamburg's Binderstrasse, which was housed in the Schlüterstrasse telephone exchange . Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) started broadcasting there on May 2nd of the same year.

He was mainly involved in the field of radio play, both as a speaker and as a director. Due to the constant technical developments in this genre, he had to constantly adapt his directing style to the changed circumstances.

Due to missing and / or incomplete data records from that time, his first directorial work could only be verified in the ARD radio play database on September 15, 1926. This is Die Anna-Lise , a comedy by Hermann Hersch in which he a. a. In addition to Cläre Goericke , Kurt Gerdes , Friedel Lind and Hans Freundt , one of the leading roles spoke. Its first proven use in front of the microphone is dated October 22, 1924. Here he spoke the role of Theseus, Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Hermann Beyer .

In addition, he directed NORAG's literary programs for many years. However, his favorite subject became children's programs.

After the end of the war , he became head of the school radio department at his station, which after a short transition period was continued as Radio Hamburg and now as Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk . One of the people who helped him set up was his colleague from the Ohnsorg Theater, Otto Lüthje , who was a full-time high school teacher.

Pündter also visited numerous city and country schools in order to get an idea for himself in the local classes there. At that time he received numerous letters from children, which suggest that he had not only grown to meet the technical requirements, but also understood the language of the third generation after him. In the first years of this activity he also stood in front of the microphone more often as a radio play speaker. However, in contrast to NORAG times, he was almost only heard in supporting roles.

On September 16, 1949 the actor celebrated his 25th anniversary on the radio and also his 45th anniversary on the stage.

He died in 1975 at the age of 92 in Hamburg, his adopted home.

Radio plays (selection)

Director and speaker

Speakers only

literature

  • German Stage Yearbook: Theater History Year and Address Book , ed. from D. Cooperative of German Stage Members . - 59th year 1951 - Hamburg: Verl. D. Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Ges., 1950. P. 57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ p. 666 from: Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch: d. large address book for stage, film, radio etc. Television / ed. from D. Cooperative of German Stage Members. - 85th year 1977 - Hamburg: Verl. D. Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Ges., 1976; here: place and date of death
  2. ^ Munich City Archives; here: the birth certificates of Karl and Ernst Pündter, there also with details of all first names and exact place of death.
  3. ↑ p. 63 from: Specialized lexicon of German theater members: 1st year / ed. by Heinrich Hagemann. - Berlin: Pallas u. a., [1906]. - 210 p.: Numerous Il
personal data
SURNAME Pündter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pündter, Karl Johann Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, radio play speaker and after 1945 head of the school radio department at NWDR Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1975
Place of death Hamburg-Altona