Rudolf H. Herget
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.
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 |
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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:
- " The Little Prince " by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “ Der kleine Häwelmann ” by Theodor Storm
- " The Seagull Jonathan " after Richard Bach
- "Galileo Galilei" based on Galileo Galilei after Bertolt Brecht
- " The Speech of Chief Seattle "
Places of activity and series of events
- Wolfsburg Planetarium
- Hamburg Planetarium
- Jena Planetarium
- Fulda observatory and planetarium
- Rhön Biosphere Reserve - Nights of Poetry
- Bell Church in Eckelsheim , Rheinhessen - Nights of Poetry
Web links
- Narrator of the Night - Radio FFH
- Osthessen News Message of February 10, 2014 on the death of Rudolf H. Herget, last accessed on July 20, 2014
- Obituary
- Rudolf H. Herget in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b Rudolf Herget. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
- ^ Catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Production year 2010 , photo from 1971
- ↑ Year of production 2006 , ISBN 3-86629-306-2 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Osthessen News from February 10, 2014, last accessed on July 20, 2014
- ↑ WAZ report , Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, last accessed on May 15, 2017
- ↑ Hamburg Planetarium, references and artists
- ↑ Hans Nüchter Observatory Fulda - Chronicle. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Bellerkirche - mystery along the way. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data | |
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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 |