Ulrich Lauterbach

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Ulrich Lauterbach (born March 28, 1911 in Schöneberg , † 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German theater director, director and radio play director of the Hessian broadcasting company .

Life

Lauterbach grew up in Breslau and attended the humanistic Johannes-Gymnasium in Paradiesstrasse. Among his teachers was the historian Willy Cohn , who with his diaries on the fall of Wroclaw Jewry is considered one of the most important contemporary witnesses of the Third Reich . From 1930 to 1932 Lauterbach attended the drama school in Breslau under the direction of Paul Barnay , where one of his teachers was the film director Max Ophüls . From 1930 to 1933 Lauterbach was an employee of the Silesian Radio Lesson under Friedrich Bischoff .

Lauterbach wrote his dissertation on the Danish writer Herman Bang . It is entitled: Herman Bang. Studies on Danish Impressionism . The work was published in 1937 in the German Studies series . Series A. Volume 7 at Maruschke & Berendt in Breslau. To date, this work is the only monograph on Herman Bang written in German.

After 1945 Lauterbach was managing director and later chief dramaturge of the newly founded Augsburg comedy , from 1948 director of the municipal theater in Hof . From 1955 to 1976 he was head of the radio play department of the Hessischer Rundfunk .

The radio plays directed by Ulrich Lauterbach include: Thomas Mann - Royal Highness (Hörverlag), Charles Dickens - Die Pickwickier (Hörverlag), Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote , Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera , Richard Hughes - Danger ( The work, created in 1924, is considered the first European original radio play ), Hans Rothe - Distinguishing features: myopic. Radio play about Georg Büchner , Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas (Hörverlag).

In later years Lauterbach devoted himself to Gerhart Hauptmann research . For Ullstein Verlag he published the ten-volume edition Gerhart Hauptmann: Das narrische Werk until 1983 . In 1987 he presented a Gerhart Hauptmann exhibition for the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage under the title 1862-1946. Reality and dream together.

Lauterbach was married and had two children, his son is the writer Benjamin Lauterbach .

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personal data
SURNAME Lauterbach, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, director and radio play director of the Hessischer Rundfunk
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Frankfurt am Main