Richard Ohnsorg

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Bust in the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg

Richard Ohnsorg (born May 3, 1876 in Hamburg ; † May 11, 1947 there ) was a German librarian , theater manager , actor and radio play speaker and director .

Life

Ohnsorg studied English and German philology at the University of Marburg . During his studies he became a member of today's Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken in the winter semester of 1896/1897 . He did his doctorate in Rostock in 1900 on English drama. In 1901, Ohnsorg was employed as a public librarian by the Patriotic Society of 1765 in Hamburg, which had maintained the first public library in Neustadt since 1898. Ohnsorg worked in this profession until 1935, from 1931 on as chief librarian of the Hamburg Public Library Foundation .

Ohnsorg became known as the founder, director and actor of a stage that he set up on October 12, 1902 in the Kersten restaurant on Gänsemarkt as the Hamburg Dramatic Society and which he founded in 1920 in Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg e. V. was renamed. Richard Ohnsorg pursued a clearly contoured cultural-political concept from the beginning, he wanted to create “a Low German people's stage next to the established High German theater”, which “should be different from the Low German antics on the suburban stages of the 19th century”. The amateur play group mainly included educated citizens who were active in the field of education. As part of closed performances, Ohnsorg first performed works of local art drama. The Dramatic Society achieved its breakthrough as a stage that played predominantly Low German plays in 1909 in a targeted collaboration with the Stavenhagen Society, which Ohnsorg co-founded . With his staging of the one-act play “Der Lotse” by Fritz Stavenhagen , Ohnsorg recommended himself as someone who was willing and able to “take on the inheritance of Stavenhagen”, as Adolf Bartels had demanded in 1907 , the folk - anti-Semitic journalist and authoritative supporter of one Home art movement . From August 1945 the stage was named Richard-Ohnsorg-Theater , at the same time the management of the house was transferred to Rudolf Beiswanger . In the early 1950s, the stage name was shortened to Ohnsorg Theater .

Ohnsorg managed to hire a number of actors, who then remained loyal to the theater for decades and contributed much to the later popularity of the house. These included the audience favorites Hans Langmaack , Magda Bäumken , Walther Bullerdiek , Aline Bußmann , Otto Lüthje , Walter Scherau , Heidi Kabel , Hilde Sicks , Heinz Lanker and Heini Kaufeld .

In 1926 he was honored with the John Brinckman Prize for his services to Low German .

At the newly founded radio broadcaster NORAG , Ohnsorg also worked as a radio play speaker . For example, he could be heard on May 24, 1926 together with Magda Bäumken , Hans Freundt and Hermann Beyer , who also directed, in a leading role in the radio play " Die Fahrt nach Helgoland " by Wilhelm Ehlers .

The Richard Ohnsorg Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in Hamburg, which was awarded from 1963 to 1983 for stage art, is also associated with Ohnsorg .

His tomb in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Richard Ohnsorg died on May 11, 1947. He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

On his tombstone it says:

“Almost Hollt! Almost hoot! Because it goes well, because lewt us Sprok still showering Johr! "

Fonts

  • John Lacy's "Dumb Lady", Mrs. Susanna Centlivre's "Love's contrivance" and Henry Fielding's "Mock Doctor" in their relationship to one another and to their common source . Bargstedt & Ruhland publishing house, Hamburg 1900 (dissertation University of Rostock).
  • Mask and make-up. Hamburg theater anecdotes. Drawings by Ruth Bessoudo [Low German Library; Vol. 205]. Hamburg 1946.

Radio plays (selection)

Director

Speakers only

  • 1925: Heinrich Behnken: Versteckspeelen - Director: Not specified (2 broadcasts)
  • 1925: Heinrich Behnken: De first guest - Director: Not specified (2 broadcasts)
  • 1925: Hermann Boßdorf: De Fährkrog - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 broadcasts)
  • 1925: Wilhelm Friedrich Wroost : Wrack - Director: Not specified (2 broadcasts)
  • 1925: Wilhelm Meyer-Förster : Alt-Heidelberg - Director: Hermann Beyer (2 transmissions)
  • 1925: Eduard Mörike : The Last King of Orplid - Director: Not specified
  • 1925: Erich Hagemeister : Ulenspegel - Director: Not specified
  • 1925: Heinrich Behnken: De Verschriewung - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 transmissions)
  • 1925: Gorch Fock: Cili Cohrs - Director: Not specified
  • 1925: Geert Teis : Meister öwer Meister - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Franz Grillparzer : Woe to him who lies - Director: Hermann Beyer
  • 1925: Hans Hansen : The May Night on the Alster - Director: Hans Bodenstedt
  • 1925: Georg Ruseler : De dulle Deern - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Wilfried Wroost : Slagsiet - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Fritz Stavenhagen : Mudder Mews - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Gustav Freytag : Die Journalisten - Director: NN
  • 1925: Paul Schurek: Stratenmusik - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Hermann Boßdorf: Bahnmeester Dod - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Fritz Stavenhagen: Jürgen Piepers - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Hans Ehrke: Narrenspegel - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1925: Johann Nestroy : Lumpazi Vagabundus - Director: Ernst Pündter
  • 1926: Fritz Stavenhagen: Jürgen Piepers - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 transmissions)
  • 1926: Hans Sachs : The traveling student in the Paradeis - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: De rode Uennerrock - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Gorch Fock: Cili Cohrs - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Hinrich Wriede: Leege Lüd - Director: NN
  • 1926: Björnstjerne Björnson : About our strength (2nd part) - Director: Hermann Beyer
  • 1926: Rudolf Werner : Seafaring - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Gerhart Hauptmann: Die Weber - Director: Hermann Beyer
  • 1926: Fritz Stavenhagen: Mudder Mews - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Alexander Zinn : Schlemihl - Director: Hans Bodenstedt; Hermann Beyer
  • 1926: Wilhelm Ehlers : The trip to Helgoland - Director: Hermann Beyer
  • 1926: Karl Krickeberg : Pidder Lüng - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Hugo von Hofmannsthal : Jedermann - Director: Hermann Beyer
  • 1926: Gorch Fock: The Queen of Honolulu - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 broadcasts)
  • 1926: Rudolf Presber ; Leo Walther Stein : The blessed Excellency - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm or: The luck of the soldiers - Director: Not specified
  • 1926: Ernst Elias Niebergall : Herr Bummerlunder ( Datterich in Low German) - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: De Fährkrog - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: Kramer Kray - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Herman Heijermans : Keden - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Wilhelm Scharrelmann : The wedding in the Pickbalge - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Gustav Möhring : Dusenddüwelswarf - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: August Hinrichs : De Aukschon - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Paul Schurek: Sylvester - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: Otto Franz Grund : Dat lütte Rumenken - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1927: Wilfried Wroost: Wrack - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1927: Paul Schurek: Stratenmusik - Director: NN
  • 1927: Peter Werth : St. Elmsfüer - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1927: Fritz Stavenhagen: Mudder Mews - Director: Hans Böttcher

(Guest performance of the Niederdeutsche Noragbühne Hamburg at Südwestdeutschen Rundfunkdienst AG in Frankfurt am Main)

  • 1946: Paul Schurek: De politsche Kannengeter - Director: Curt Becker

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard Ohnsorg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old gentlemen's association of the Marburger Burschenschaft Rheinfranken e. V. http://www.haben.rheinfranken.de/
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 358.
  3. ↑ Ulf-Thomas Lesle: Richard Ohnsorg, initiator and sponsor of the Low German theater . In: Voss un Haas. North German home calendar 2001 . Rostock 2000, p. 36
  4. ↑ Ulf-Thomas Lesle: Richard Ohnsorg, initiator and sponsor of the Low German theater . In: Voss un Haas. North German home calendar 2001 . Rostock 2000, p. 38
  5. ^ Foundation German Broadcasting Archive, Radio Play Archive
  6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Richard Ohnsorg
personal data
SURNAME Ohnsorg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1947
Place of death Hamburg