Neumann, ring twice
Neumann, ring twice was a legendary family radio play series on the radio of the GDR .
Content orientation
This GDR radio series was the answer to The Hesselbachs and similar family series in the Federal Republic. The "Neumann" brought it into their term of 3 February 1968 to 30 May 1981 on Radio DDR I to a total of 678 episodes and was one of the most popular radio drama series of the GDR broadcast . The first episode from the pen of Joachim Witte ran under the title The move and the last episode, which was also from Witte, under: Waiting for Hans .
With the Neumanns - father Hans (machinist), mother Marianne (teacher), daughter Brigitte and son Jan - everything happened that was also important in real socialist everyday life: membership in the FDJ , trouble with the brigade, NVA military service, struggling to shop or simply having marital problems. The criticism of the circumstances of the time was hidden. B. the visit from the west had to be unloaded because guests from Hungary had announced themselves. The “socialist model family” was stuffy and petty bourgeois like its western counterpart.
In the early phase of the 14-year series, the entire Neumann team met on Saturday mornings in the radio play studio of Funkhaus Nalepastraße for production, and that same evening the freshly recorded episode was broadcast on Radio DDR I at 8 p.m.
Production staff
Authors: Gerhard Jäckel , Arne Leonhardt , Ulrich Waldner , Brigitte Tenzler, Joachim Witte , Wilhelm Hampel, Horst Ulrich Wendler u. a. (about 20 authors in total)
Dramaturgy: Horst Buerschaper, Werner Jahn, Barbara Winkler, Gabriele Göhler, Dorothea Sponholz
Actors: Herbert Köfer (Hans Neumann), Brigitte Krause (Marianne Neumann), Helga Piur (Brigitte Neumann), Mario Müller (Jan Neumann), Marianne Wünscher , Walter Lendrich , Helga Göring , Jürgen Kluckert , Ingeborg Krabbe , Michael Narloch , Karl Brenk , Jürgen Zartmann , Heinz Behrens u. a.
Music: Siegfried Schäfer; Director: Joachim Gürtner
Follow-up series
After a period with several seasons of shorter entertainment radio play series such as B. Community nurse Erika by Linda Teßmer (1982), on January 14, 1984 with Waldstrasse No. 7 , a long-term series finally began again, which was broadcast in 240 episodes on Saturday 8pm on Radio DDR I until 1989 . Actors like Barbara Dittus and Roland Hemmo were among the regulars in this series . The manuscripts came from a team of different freelance authors.
TV adaptation
Under the title Neumann Family (continuation of Neumann's Stories ), East German television produced a television series based on the radio play series Neumann, two rings (scenario and direction: Wolfgang Luderer / 2nd season: Hans Joachim Hildebrandt ), which ran in a total of 31 episodes from 1984 to Aired in 1986. Since 2013 there has also been a complete edition on DVD for both seasons.
Sound carrier
- Neumann ring the bell twice - GDR radio archive, 10 selected radio play episodes in a 5-CD box, 277 min./ 29 min. Bonus, Icestorm Entertainment GmbH 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leading actor Herbert Köfer in an interview in July 2015 - see bonus tracks in the audio book box
- ↑ Barbara Winkler: Ringed at Neumanns - work of the Neumann collective, social partners and listener connection , broadcast of the series Mondays, quarter to ten , broadcast of the GDR, first broadcast: July 29, 1974, 41 min.
- ↑ The Neumann family & Neumann's stories - the complete series, GDR TV archive , directors: Wolfgang Luderer, Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt, 754 minutes, 6 DVDs, Icestorm Distribution GmbH 2013