Rudolf H. Herget

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Rudolf H. Herget at the thick tower, Künzell

Rudolf H. Herget (born January 7, 1940 ; † February 8, 2014 in Fulda ) was a German actor and poet . Performances in the open air at selected locations in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve earned him the title Narrator of the Night .

Life and work

Herget studied in the acting department at the University of Music in Hanover and used a scholarship in New York to train as an actor. In Germany he appeared in classical roles on theatrical stages. He played roles abroad in German-speaking theaters in Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Salt Lake City. As a globetrotter, he used appearances on cruise ships to get from one continent to the next. In doing so, he discovered the fascination of the starry sky at night and began to develop programs that he performed in the open air and later staged in planetariums with music and light effects.

Free and without a manuscript, he carried poems by JW Goethe , F. Schiller , K. Tucholsky , RM Rilke , M. Claudius , F. Hölderlin , H. Hesse , A. Puschkin , F. Rückert , H. Heine , A. v. Arnim , Plato and B. Brecht before. He only trusted his distinctive voice. In evening programs he recited his own compiled topics; in the “Nights of Poetry” up to 9 hours of stories, poems and fairy tales. These include “his rose poems” and the interpretation of “ Ode to Joy ” by Friedrich Schiller , one of his favorite poems.

He recorded impressions of nature, wind and weather in his lectures. His interpretations of the "Little Prince", of the "Seagull Jonathan", of "Galileo Galilei" and the "Speech of Chief Seattle" with background music and slide projections on canvases, castle and church ruins or the cathedral in Fulda as well as the choice of the special ones The audience was impressed by the location. According to his own statement, his goal was to take his audience into the realm of poetry and to open people's minds to the beautiful.

Rudolf H. Herget at the Guckaisee near Poppenhausen

Radio plays and recordings on long-playing records

Herget has appeared in dozens of Europe radio plays, including a. in Der Wildtöter , Moby Dick , episode 83 of the series The three ??? as well as other recordings as Old Shatterhand, The Count of Monte Christo, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Ben Hur and Glaukus (" The last days of Pompeii ") with. For this he also used the pseudonyms Alexander Berger, Chris Heinrich, Hans Meinhardt and Rainer Becker.

Theater roles

selection

role Play author
The difficult one Hugo von Hofmannsthal
In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case Heinar Kipphardt
Ferdinand cabal and Love Friedrich Schiller
The merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
Siegfried the Nibelungen Friedrich Hebbel
Old Shatterhand Karl May Games, Bad Segeberg after Karl May
Lieutenant Praline Madame Pompadour Leo case
Marquis Posa Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller
Major Tellheim Minna von Barnhelm Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

free interpretation of stories, fairy tales and traditions:

Places of activity and series of events

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deans Paul and Andreas Scholl: Magic world in the dome . Astronomie Heute, 2004, October edition, pp. 28–34 , found at www.sterne-und-weltraum.de, last accessed on July 20, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Rudolf Herget. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Production year 2010 , photo from 1971
  5. ↑ Year of production 2006 , ISBN 3-86629-306-2 .
  6. ↑ a b Kraupe Thomas W. and Dr. Ehrenfried Kluckert (Ed.): Rudolf H. Herget Himmelspoesie (= Caelum 4). 1st edition. Publication Planetarium Hamburg, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-933284-18-X .
  7. ↑ Osthessen News from February 10, 2014, last accessed on July 20, 2014
  8. ↑ WAZ report , Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, last accessed on May 15, 2017
  9. ↑ Hamburg Planetarium, references and artists
  10. ↑ Hans Nüchter Observatory Fulda - Chronicle. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Bellerkirche - mystery along the way. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Herget, Rudolf H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Narrator of the night
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1940
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2014
Place of death Fulda