Rudolf Beiswanger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gravestone of Erna and Rudolf Beiswanger

Rudolf Beiswanger (* 22. February 1903 in Altona , now a district in Hamburg, † 12. October 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , radio - and radio speaker , radio drama director and theater manager .

Life

After his acting training he got his first engagement at the Kurtheater Helgoland . Then he was hired to work at the Hamburg St. Pauli Theater . In the 1930s he came to Richard Ohnsorg as an actor at the Ohnsorg Theater , which at that time was still called Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg . After the Second World War , he took over the management of the house as director until 1949/50, because Ohnsorg had to give up this task under pressure from the British military government .

Before the war, he also worked for several years as a radio announcer at Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) and its successor, Reichssender Hamburg.

In 1940 his play Du…! , which premiered on his stage. The two-person play takes place at the end of the Thirty Years War and is about two young people who happen to meet in a cottage and want to try, after the turmoil of the long war that has shaped them up to that point, a life together in the dawning Build peacetime. Ten years later, the play was adapted for radio under the direction of Hans Freundt and first broadcast by NWDR Hamburg on September 30, 1950. The speakers were Beiswanger himself and Heidi Kabel .

At the end of the 1940s, the Ohnsorg Theater ensemble was discovered for radio. It was heard in numerous, mostly dialect, radio plays in a wide variety of genres. Rudolf Beiswanger appeared as a speaker and also as a director. Since 1955 he has also been one of the actors in the short radio play series Neues aus Waldhagen , which was broadcast as part of the school radio program of the NWDR Hamburg and later the NDR in order to convey social content.

Ulf-Thomas Lesle paid tribute to Beiswanger's services as director of the Ohnsorg Theater. With “a courageous program, with high and low German pieces”, he tried to free this stage “from the oppressive burden” of folkish thinking that “had settled there from the start”.

He didn't come to film and television until the mid-1960s. He was often involved in leading and larger supporting roles, such as in the television series Kapitän Harmsen and Kümo Henriette or the television film Die Dubrow Crisis by Wolfgang Quantity . The films in which he appeared included, among others, Grün ist die Heide , Klein Erna on Jungfernstieg and Panische Zeiten by and with Udo Lindenberg .

Beiswanger was with Erna Beiswanger, geb. Stegen (1905–1977) married. Rudolf Beiswanger died on October 12, 1984. The couple's urn grave was in the main cemetery in Altona until the rest period ended .

Award

Filmography

Direction of radio plays (selection)

As a speaker, Beiswanger was heard in more than 120 radio plays in a wide variety of roles.

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 .
  • Ulf-Thomas Lesle: Why we should know next to nothing about the actor and author Rudolf Beiswanger. In: Program booklet Low German Stage Osterholz-Scharmbeck, 1997/98 season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf-Thomas Lesle: Why we should know next to nothing about the actor and author Rudolf Beiswanger. In: Program booklet Low German Stage Osterholz-Scharmbeck, 1997/98 season
  2. ↑ Audio play database . In: hoerspiele.dra.de. ARD audio play database, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Beiswanger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio and radio drama speaker, radio drama director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona , today a district in Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1984
Place of death Hamburg