Siegfried Pfaff

Siegfried Pfaff (born January 21, 1931 in Kreuzburg, today Kluczbork ; † June 27, 2018 in Berlin ), pseudonym Andreas Anden or Rainer Rauch , was a German radio play writer and long-time dramaturge at the radio of the GDR .

Gerhard Rentzsch (left) with his radio play dramaturge colleague Siegfried Paff in the Funkhaus Nalepastraße.

Life

Siegfried Pfaff grew up in Chemnitz and graduated from high school here, from 1949 to 1952 he worked as a teacher in Klaffenbach (Ore Mountains) and then studied from 1952 to 1957 in Leipzig with Ernst Bloch and finally in Berlin philosophy. Via the Volksbühne Berlin , where he worked as an assistant director and dramaturge until 1960, he came to GDR radio, where he was responsible for the successful interim balance sheet (1963) by Rolf Gumlich and Ralph Knebel .

Pfaff became widely known with his radio play Regina B. - A day in her life , which was also adapted for the stage after its original broadcast within the weeks of contemporary radio play on November 22, 1967 and was successfully performed in Gera (premiere: 1968) and on Maxim -Gorki-Theater in Berlin (1969). The focus of the play is on the worker Regina Bayer , who works in a large company , is unmarried and has two school-age children who lost her partner to another woman. In this illustrated daily routine of Regina B. , she decides in the morning to start studying at a technical college for a very personal reason, discards her idea at noon because her colleague and a friend advise against it, and corrects herself in the evening because she has found allies for her project.

In addition to radio plays for children and adults, Siegfried Pfaff also wrote the television play A Strauss of Red Nelken (1977), released on DVD: The Public Prosecutor Has the Word - Box 4: 1977–1978, 4 DVDs, Icestorm 2013. Pfaff's work as development dramaturge in the radio play department was sufficient beyond the end of broadcasting in the GDR into the artistic word area at the ORB .

Quote

“A work that says more than it seems to say. I ask you to read it and judge it; for although you are in the spring of your life, although many pleasures await you; though you are beautiful, and some talent enhances your beauty; though you are worshiped from evening to morning, you rightly find that one can have common sense and spirit and good taste. I have heard you judge better than old dervishes with long beards and pointed hats. They are humble and self-confident, gentle without being weak, do good, but well-considered. They make friends but not enemies. Your mind doesn't get its judgment from abuse and you don't say anything bad, even if you have reason to. After all, your soul seems pure to me like your beauty. You even have a store of philosophy, which leads me to believe that you will enjoy this work of a sage more than anyone else. Heaven grant you unadulterated pleasure, enduring beauty and endless happiness. "

- Ernst Bloch : in a personal dedication of Volume 1 of The Principle of Hope for Siegfried Pfaff, September 1954

Filmography

• 1977: The prosecutor has the floor - A bouquet of red carnations (TV series)

Radio plays

author

• 1959: Der Strohfeuergeorg - Director: Max Miercke (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1966: Detective Martin: It's haunted in the Knusperhaus - Director: Manfred Täubert (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1966: Oh, how stupid that nobody knows - Director: Dora König (children's radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1967: The White Snake by Brothers Grimm - Director: Uwe Haacke (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1967: Regina B. - One day in her life - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1968: Kostja, the radio operator - director: Detlef Kurzweg (children's radio play (2 parts) - radio of the GDR)
• 1969: Regina B. - One day in her life - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - Bayerischer Rundfunk )
• 1975: Step in front of the class, Wilhelm. 36 unobserved speeches to the address Pieck - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1978: Alex and around together with Jochen Hauser , Ernst-Frieder Kratochwil and Gerhard Rentzsch - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf ( artificial head radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

speaker

• 1980: Lia Pirskawetz : Stille Post - Director: Horst Liepach (Biography - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1988: Katja Oelmann : Rise of the city on the roof (Astl) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)

Director

• 1995: Xenija Dragunskaja : Oktoberland - Director: With Beate Rosch (radio play - ORB )

literature

• Regina B. - A day in her life in: Radio plays 8 , pp. 59-108, Henschelverlag Berlin 1968
• Regina B. - One day in her life , stage version in: Theater der Zeit 25/1970
• Regina B. - One day in her life , text version in: Authors of the German Democratic Republic: New pieces . Berlin: Henschel, 1971, pp. 103-173
• Come in front of the class, Wilhelm. 36 unsubstantiated speeches to the address Pieck in: Die Grünstein -variant , Henschel 1980, pp. 73–97
• Thomas Groom : Radio Play Lexicon . Konstanz: UVK, 2005. (Short biography, p. 498.) ISBN 3-89669-698-X

Prices

• Art Prize of the FDGB (June 16, 1968)
• DFD Literature Prize (March 10, 1970)
• National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and literature 1978 in a collective with Wolfgang Beck , Peter Goslicki , Jochen Hauser , Ruth Hildebrandt and Christa Vetter (October 7, 1978)

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Pfaff in the catalog of the German National Library

swell

1. ^ Announcement from the bereaved children Franziska, Ulrike and Andreas Pfaff from July 17, 2018
2. ↑ Nalepasound - 2nd Berlin Radio Festival (PDF; 37 kB)