Wilm ten Haaf
Wilm ten Haaf (born February 24, 1915 as Wilhelm Schweimer in Emmerich ; † June 30, 1995 in Munich ) was a German director and screenwriter , a pioneer of German television.
Life and work
Schweimer had studied literature before he went to the Volksbühne Berlin as an assistant director in 1936 . As early as 1938 he took part in television test broadcasts, but returned to the stage during the war years . There Schweimer worked under his birth name as a director and as an actor at the city theaters of Krefeld , Bunzlau and Schweidnitz . Immediately after the end of the war, Wilhelm Schweimer took on the pseudonym Wilm ten Haaf and staged plays at the city theater of Ingolstadt . In 1946 he founded a theater for young people in Kitzingen . In 1948, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR) signed him up for school radio . In the following years ten Haaf staged a large number of radio plays , including a Paul Temple multi-part by Francis Durbridge in 1966 for the SR , namely Paul Temple and the Geneva case , in which Franz Schafheitlin played one of the leading roles.
Ten Haaf made his debut behind the camera as a short film director as early as 1950. In 1952, with the beginning of the television age after the war, he was hired by the BR as senior director. From 1954 the Rhinelander concentrated entirely on directing television. Ten Haaf's specialty was initially literature adaptations, from the beginning of the 1960s - interrupted by three disappointingly unusual detours to the cinema - he also directed series. Ten Haaf staged a total of seven episodes in twelve years for the Tatort series.
Ten Haaf has worked as a freelancer since 1957. At times he also taught as a lecturer at the University of Television and Film .
His grave is in the Daglfing cemetery , section 3-2-14, where he was buried on July 6, 1995. His wife Gitta (* 1919) died on February 3, 2005 and was also buried in the crypt.
Filmography
Director of television films unless otherwise stated
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theatre
- Cornelia , WP, August 15, 1972, Tuesday, 8 p.m., Theater Augsburg, opera by Rafael Kubelík
Radio plays (selection)
- 1949: Bracke; BR
- 1950: The magic bed; HR / BR
- 1950: Do not go to El Kuwehd or The Double Death of the Merchant Mohallab; BR / Radio Saarbrücken
- 1950: The poorly bound Prometheus; RB
- 1950: A Christmas Carol; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: Romeo and Jeanette; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: Cinderella; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: Don Quixote; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: Divorced people; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: trains to the sea; SDR
- 1951: A Faun's Afternoon; BR
- 1951: The beloved voice; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1951: The story of the last shepherd; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: I want to write a novel; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: Leonce and Lena; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: The Demons; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: Flames below Montclair; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: Colonel Chabert; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1952: The Game of the Magi - Author: Felix Timmermans ; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1953: I am not a Casanova; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1955: Leonce and Lena; Radio Saarbrücken
- 1959: Praterveilchen; MR
- 1962: Terra Incognita; BR
- 1962: The Lady Don Juan; SWF
- 1964: Francis Durbridge : Only About My Corpse (Detective Radio Play - SR)
- 1966: The Mazarin Stone; SR
- 1966: The Secret Agreement; SR
- 1966: Paul Temple and the Geneva case ; SR
- 1978: You will not hear from me; BR
- 1981: What Can't Talk About; SR
- 1981: Clic-Clac; SR
- 1988: four left hands; BR
literature
- Egon Netenjakob: TV film lexicon. Directors, authors, dramaturges 1952-1992 . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1994. pp. 154 ff., ISBN 3-596-11947-2
- Susanne Dengel, Clemens Zimmermann, Rainer Hudemann, Michael Kuderna: Saar media landscape: from 1945 to the present. Volume 1: Media between Democratization and Control (1945-1955) . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59170-5
Web links
- Wilm ten Haaf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wilm ten Haaf at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Daglfing cemetery: exact dates of life, date and place of burial, information on the wife
- ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Haaf ten, Wilm, p. 154 .
- ↑ Susanne Dengel, Clemens Zimmermann, Rainer Hudemann, Michael Kuderna: Saar media landscape: from 1945 to the present. Volume 1: Media between Democratization and Control ... Contents, Programs and Region (1955-2005) . P. 230
- ↑ after the play Clic-clac by Jaroslav Abramov-Newerly. Produced for ARD by Bayerischer Rundfunk
- ↑ Culture Department of the City of Augsburg (ed.): Augsburger Kulturnachrichten , August 1972, p. 4
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haaf, Wilm ten |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schweimer, Wilhelm (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1995 |
| Place of death | Munich |