Wolfgang Beck (dramaturge)

Wolfgang Beck (born April 26, 1933 in Reichenberg ; † March 20, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German dramaturge and radio play author .

Wolfgang Beck, 1991 in the Funkhaus Nalepastraße on a portrait shot by the Berlin radio play photographer Werner Bethsold

Live and act

After studying German and theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Wolfgang Beck began working as an audio drama writer for the radio in the GDR in 1956 . The authors with whom he developed radio plays for over 35 years included Manfred Bieler , Joachim Goll , Gerhard Rentzsch , Günther Rücker , Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Brigitte Hähnel, Jochen Hauser , Wolfgang Ret, Irene Knoll, Thomas Fritz , Angela Krauss .

The crime comedy Fish for four by Rita Zimmer and Wolfgang Kohlhaase, which is also widely played as a stage play, gained European fame, which premiered under Wolfgang Beck's dramaturgy in August 1968 as a radio play on the GDR radio. Beck developed and supervised the survey What I liked best within the GDR radio play prize from 1977 to 1991 . for the annual audience award. For many years, Wolfgang Beck gave special courses in dramaturgical instruction for practical use in the radio play and word recording studio for the central training facility for studio technology broadcasting in the former Funkhaus Grünau .

The radio play Questions to a Photo by Wolfgang Kohlhaase (1969), supervised by Wolfgang Beck, was filmed in 1976 by Konrad Wolf under the title Mama, I live at DEFA , which Beck brought in as a dramaturgical advisor for this film. On July 29, 1997, he designed a radio play night lasting several hours with comedies and entertaining radio plays for the night program of the Berliner Rundfunk . One of Wolfgang Beck's greatest successes is the “ Prix ​​Italia for drama”, which the radio play Die Grünstein -variant by Wolfgang Kohlhaase , created under his dramaturgy, received in Venice in 1977.

Radio plays and radio play adaptations (selection)

• Such a love after Pavel Kohout (1958)
• Erich lasts the longest (together with Walter Karl Schweikert 1960)
• Two doctors by Hans Pfeiffer (1960)
• The Black Shaft by Albert Maltz (1961)
• Great Money by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowski (1962)
• The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist (1962)
• Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1963)
• Madame Legros after Heinrich Mann (1963)
• ZOO or The Philanthropic Killer of Vercors (1965)
• War and Peace - 12 parts after Lew N. Tolstoi (together with Peter Goslicki 1967/68)
• The Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht (1970)
• The youth of King Henri Quatre - 2 parts after Heinrich Mann (together with Alfred Schrader 1971)
• The Completion of King Henri Quatre - 3 parts after Heinrich Mann (together with Alfred Schrader 1971)
• The Photo (1973)
• The suspension railway according to Georges Courteline (1973)
• The regular guest after Georges Courteline (1973)
• Jakob the Liar after Jurek Becker (1973)
• Fire from the Boilers by Ernst Toller (1977)
• Dero Most Devoted Lessing (1978)
• The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980) according to Mark Twain
• ... in other roles: Georg Helge (together with Matthias Thalheim) - Funkhaus Berlin 1991

Movie

• Mama, ich lebe (1976), directed by Konrad Wolf, dramaturgy: Wolfgang Beck, Günter Klein, Klaus Wischnewski and Dieter Wolf

book

• Follow-up note to The eighth Tribulation Hall by Manfred Bieler in: Hörspieljahrbuch 1 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1961, p. 128f
• Follow-up to the Brisson murder case by G. Koch / M. Uhlmann in Radio Play 2 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1962, pp. 105–109
• Follow-up comment on night train by Gerhard Rentzsch in radio play 3 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1963, pp. 156–160
• A follow-up to the story of a coat by Gerhard Rentzsch, in Radio Play 4 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1964, pp. 153–157
• Follow-up note to The Interrogation of Lukullus by Bertolt Brecht in Radio Play 7 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1967, pp. 32–35
• Follow-up comment on fish for four by Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Rita Zimmer in radio play 9 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1969, pp. 146–148
• Follow-up comment on questions about a photo by Wolfgang Kohlhaase in radio play 10 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1970, pp. 43–45
• Brecht and the radio , excerpts from a program with Elisabeth Hauptmann, Maximilian Scheer a. Peter Gugisch. In: Contributions z. Story d. Rundf. 12/1978, 2, pp. 26-38
• Foreword to: Jazz at the grave . Radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1983, pp. 7-17

Prices

• Art Prize of the FDGB 1971 (together with Gerhard Rentzsch ) for the radio play novel Das Amulett (6 parts).
• “ Prix ​​Italia for radio drama 1977” for: The Grünstein variant by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, directed by Günther Rücker and Barbara Plensat , dramaturgy: Wolfgang Beck, Rundfunk der DDR 1976.
• National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and literature 1978 in a collective with Peter Goslicki , Jochen Hauser , Ruth Hildebrandt, Siegfried Pfaff and Christa Vetter
• Slabbesz on the ribbon of the ORF radio play days in Rust / Burgenland, 1992 for ... in other roles: Georg Helge (together with Matthias Thalheim)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Kolhaase on July 1, 1994 about his radio play work and the dramaturge Wolfgang Beck, broadcast: July 19, 1994 on MDR Kultur
2. ^ Sibylle Bolik: The radio play in the GDR - themes and tendencies, Peter Lang GmbH, European publishing house of the sciences, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 298ff
3. ↑ F.-B. Habel: The large lexicon of DEFA feature films, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag 2000, p. 385
4. ↑ Jokan list of the award winners ( memento of the original from June 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.