Paul Schurek

Paul Schurek (born January 2, 1890 in Hamburg , † August 22, 1962 in Wedel ) was a German writer , stage and radio play author .

Life

Paul Schurek learned the trade of precision mechanic and then went on tour for some time. The outbreak of the First World War initially prevented the continuation of an engineering course which he had begun, which he resumed after the end of the war. Shortly afterwards, Schurek took up a position as a teacher at the Hamburg trade school. Financially independent in this way, he began writing plays and stories in High and Low German. As early as 1921, the comedy Stratenmusik - filmed in 1936 with Fritz Genschow in the leading role - was one of his most successful works. In 1930 Schurek met the sculptor and playwright Ernst Barlach . From this acquaintance, the book Encounters with Ernst Barlach was published in 1946 . In 1949 he retired and worked freelance from then on. Most of Schurek's plays have been adapted several times for radio, and he has also written a few radio plays in Low German himself. He had a humanistic attitude. The focus of his work is on people and aspects of ethically responsible behavior.

In 1951 Schurek became a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg .

Paul Schurek was buried in the Blankeneser Friedhof in Hamburg .

His estate is administered by the Hamburg State and University Library .

Works

Plays

• 1921: Stratenmusik , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg , October 24, 1921
• 1923: Vörjahrsstorm , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, October 3, 1923
• 1926: Sylvester and De last cab driver (2 one-act plays under the title Käuze )
• 1927: Snieder Nörig , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, March 30, 1927
• 1927: Gach, de Mann, de keen Tied hett (based on Ludvig Holberg ), premiere: Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg, September 21, 1927
• 1929: Lünkenlarm , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, January 13, 1930
• 1932: Kasper kummt na Hus , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, October 19, 1932
• 1932: Pott wants to get married (after Nikolai Gogol )
• 1936: Tulipantjes , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, October 14, 1936
• 1938: Summer in Poggenhöge , premiere: Low German Stage Hamburg, April 6, 1938
• 1945: Depolitical Kannengeter (based on Ludvig Holberg), premiere: Ohnsorg-Theater, October 6, 1945
• 1955: Jeppe in't Paradies (based on Ludvig Holberg), premiere: August-Hinrichs-Bühne , 1955
• 1956: Ulenspeegel op Reisen , WP : Niederdeutsche Bühne Bremen , September 8, 1957
• 1959: De kloke Anna , premiere: Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, November 12, 1959

Novels and short stories in Low German

• 1920: Düwel un poet
• 1921: De rode Heben
• 1922: Snak's stories
• 1923: Swinegel stories (participation)
• 1925: A colorful book (with woodcuts by A. Paul Weber )
• 1933: violence and shaping (high German / low German)
• 1953: As ik beginning

Novels and short stories in standard German

• 1922: The Hamburg fire
• 1924: Unleashed
• 1926: The burning city
• 1940: life goes on
• 1946: Encounters with Ernst Barlach
• 1946: The fountain of youth. From a hiker's notes
• 1949: nothing is lost. The fate of Robert Mayer as a researcher
• 1959: Oil from Hell
• 1961: Barlach. A picture biography

Radio plays

• 1925: Stratenmusik - director: Hans Böttcher ; Richard Ohnsorg , with Paul Möhring , Hermann Möller , Richard Ohnsorg, Magda Bäumken , Ludwig Specht , Käte Alving (broadcast from the Noragfest in Harburg on all NORAG channels )
• 1926: The Last Cab Driver - Director: Hans Böttcher, with Adolf Johannesson , Paul Möhring, Magda Bäumken, Kurt Kurtow
• 1926: Sylvester - Director: Hans Böttcher, with Bruno Wolberts , Ada Hamer , Richard Ohnsorg, Hannah Ullrich , Willi Scholz , Hermann Möller
• 1951: Vetter Kirchhoff (narrator and director unknown)
• 1952: As de Minschen ... - Director: Hans Freundt , with Carl Voscherau , Heinz Lanker , Hartwig Sievers , Heidi Kabel , Günther Siegmund and others
• 1952: Der Damm - Director: Werner Perrey , with Heinz Piper , Katharina Brauren , Hans Mahler , Rudolf Beiswanger and others
• 1952: De Düwel teaches dancing - Director: Hans Freundt, with Carl Voscherau, Günther Siegmund, Hartwig Sievers and Eri Neumann
• 1953: Uhlenspeegel became Stadtschriever - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg , with Carl Hinrichs , Ruth Bunkenburg , Walter A. Kreye , Ernst Waldau and others
• 1957: Deerten makt sik'n Hög - Director: Günter Jansen , with Hartwig Sievers, Otto Lüthje , Heinz Ladiges and Hilde Sicks
• 1958: Merkur über Hamburg - Director: Hans Tügel , with Hans Mahler, Heinz Lanker, Kurt Klopsch , Rudolf Beiswanger, Heini Kaufeld , Günther Siegmund, Henry Vahl , Otto Lüthje, Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , Bruno Vahl-Berg , Erna Raupach-Petersen , Jochen Schenck , Hartwig Sievers, Heinz Roggenkamp and others
• 1958: De dumme Ilsebill - Director: Hans Mahler, with Otto Lüthje, Aline Bussmann and Günther Siegmund

Awards and honors

In 1931 Paul Schurek received the Stavenhagen Prize from the Lower Saxony Stage Association. District of Hamburg: In addition, two streets were named after him Steilshoop the Schurekstraße and in Mölln the Paul-Schurek path .

In 1937 Schurek was supposed to receive the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , but like Hans Grimm and Hans Franck, the Reichsschrifttumskammer rejected it.

literature

• Ulf-Thomas Lesle : Paul Schurek . Hamburg 1979. (Hamburg Bibliographies Vol. 23).

Web links

• Paul Schurek in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
• Literature by and about Paul Schurek in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Schurek in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography on the website of the Niederdeutsche Bühne Flensburg , accessed on November 11, 2015.
3. ↑ Reinhard Goltz , Ulf-Thomas Lesle (ed.): Dat Land so free un wiet . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-40026-4 .