Werner Hess

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Werner Hess (born October 13, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 11, 2003 in Munich ) was a German Protestant pastor, film commissioner of his church and director of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 1962 to 1980 .

Werner Hess studied Protestant theology , German and theater studies. In 1939 he became city vicar in Frankfurt am Main. From 1939 to 1945 he was in military service and from 1945 to 1960 pastor of the Bethlehem parish in Frankfurt-Ginnheim . Hess was instrumental in building up Protestant film work in the early Federal Republic.

As a pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , he worked from 1949 to 1960 as a film commissioner for the Evangelical Church in Germany . In 1951 he was also appointed television representative. During this time, Hess wrote the screenplay for the film Der obedient Rebell , which appeared in 1952, together with Franz Oertel . As a supporting actor, he worked in the socially critical film Das Unheil in 1972 .

In 1956 he was elected chairman of the preparatory committee of the German Evangelical Church Congress in Frankfurt am Main.

Since 1948 he was a member of the broadcasting council of the Hessischer Rundfunk. In 1959 he became its chairman. From 1960 to 1962 he was television program director, from 1962 to 1981 director of the Hessischer Rundfunk.

Honors

On November 30, 1979 Werner Hess was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal .

Fonts

  • Annunciation through the mass media? In: Heinz Zahrnt , Axel Seeberg (ed.): Farewell to Christianity? Hamburg 1964, pp. 205ff.

literature

  • Anne Quaas: Protestant film journalism 1948–1968. Example of the cultural and political commitment of the Protestant Church in the post-war period . Erlangen 2007.
  • Hans-Otto Schneider:  Hess, Werner. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 616-621.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessische Landesregierung (Hrsg.): In the service of democracy - The winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 1965 - 2011 . Wiesbaden 2011, p. 114 .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2003
Place of death Munich