Wolfgang Hammerschmidt

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Wolfgang Hammerschmidt (born February 6, 1925 in Cottbus ; † 1999 ) was a German dramaturge .

Life

youth

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt was born in Cottbus as the second son of the Jewish lawyer and notary Hermann Hammerschmidt and his Catholic wife Elisabeth. There he attended the Humanist Gymnasium, where he passed the Abitur in 1943. In 1944, like his younger brother Ulrich, he was drafted into forced labor at the Todt Organization . It was used in France. From there he fled to Berlin via various stations, where he initially stayed with his older brother Helmut . After his name and picture had been published in the “Reichssteckbrief”, his father Hermann was arrested because of “ danger of blackout ” and transferred to the Cottbus police prison. In December 1944, Hermann was taken to the Oderblick labor education camp near Schwetig and murdered there. In the meantime, Wolfgang found accommodation in the Swedish Church and the Gethsemane Church, among others . He was arrested on February 24, 1945. However, he managed to escape on March 10, shortly before being transferred to Sachsenhausen . He then came to stay with Maria Countess von Maltzan , among others .

Professional background

After the end of the Second World War, Wolfgang Hammerschmidt initially worked as a press officer for the city of Cottbus, district secretary of the Kulturbund as well as culture and theater advisor for the city. Later he was able to study philosophy, art history and theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin thanks to a scholarship . Afterwards he was dramaturge at the Stadttheater Cottbus , Landestheater Halle and the Theater Stendal . In Stendal he also worked as an opera director. After moving to the uprising June 17, 1953 , first for Bayerischer Rundfunk by Munich was changed, he returned in 1954 to Berlin. There he worked as chief dramaturge at the East Berlin Komische Oper . In 1961 and 1962 he worked for the RIAS as a radio play and feature dramaturge. From 1963 he was editor-in-chief and chief dramaturge at ZDF . In February 1970 he was released without notice. He was accused of defaming program director Joseph Viehöver . Hammerschmidt had told a colleague of the rumor that a freelance television producer had co-financed Viehöver's villa in Wiesbaden because he was dependent on his orders. Hammerschmidt filed a lawsuit against the dismissal and was given the right to appeal to the Rhineland-Palatinate state labor court in 1971 . Since the dramaturgy of the ZDF had meanwhile been dissolved, he was initially offered another job in the chief editor. In 1973 Hammerschmidt took over editorial I in the main editorial department of the ZDF documentary game, and in 1990 he retired. In 1971 Hammerschmidt was elected first chairman of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft .

Retirement and death

In 1990 Hammerschmidt retired. After that, he briefly devoted himself to teaching at the University of Osnabrück and the University of Saarland . In 1996 he published the book Search for Traces - On the History of the Jewish Hammerschmidt Family in Cottbus , in which he describes the history of his family from its founding by his grandfather Abraham Hammerschmidt to its almost complete destruction by the Holocaust .

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt died in 1999.

Works

Books

  • State Theater Saxony-Anhalt 1945–1953 , Halle 1953.
  • Ten years of the Komische Oper , Berlin 1959.
  • From Weimar to Bonn: Thirty years of German history in ZDF television plays and documentaries - November 15, 1988 to May 24, 1989 . Second German television (ZDF), Mainz 1988
  • The film for the book. Film adaptations of literature on television. Second German Television (ZDF), Mainz 1989
  • Search for clues. On the history of the Jewish Hammerschmidt family in Cottbus . Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 1996, ISBN 3-930096-49-8 .

Pieces

  • The Vacuum Cleaner or Triple Salto , 1991.

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 83.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 32.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 197.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, pp. 27-28.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 33.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 35.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, pp. 37-38.
  8. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, pp. 39-40.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, pp. 56-57.
  10. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, pp. 67-71.
  11. ^ Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 75.
  12. ↑ Dirk Kurbiuweit: "And you know, the time was too bad to be remembered with pleasure": Maria Countess von Maltzan. In: The time . April 1, 1994, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Hammerschmidt: Search for traces. 1996, p. 227.
  14. ↑ Affären / ZDF: Under the carpet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1970 ( online ).
  15. ^ Professional: Wolfgang Hammerschmidt . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1971 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Brück, I., Guder, A., Viehoff, R., Wehn, K .: The German Television Crime: A Program and Production History from the Beginnings to the Present, 2003, page 149
  17. ↑ Barbara Schieb: Three courageous women from the rectory: Agnes Wendland with her daughters Ruth and Angelika . In: Manfred Gailus , Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): With heart and mind - Protestant women in the resistance against the Nazi racial policy . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0173-4 , p. 163–190 , here: 182 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Hammerschmidt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH 1999