Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch (born May 13, 1893 in Frankfurt an der Oder , † January 7, 1965 in Bonn ) was a German writer , translator , dramaturge , theater director , film director , film producer , radio play director and screenwriter . Born as Friedrich Wolfgang Hoffmann; he also used the pseudonym Wolfgang Lindroder.

Life

Hoffmann-Harnisch studied economics and social science in Berlin and Frankfurt and received his doctorate in 1915 for Dr. rer. pole. After engagements at the Stadttheater Lübeck (1911/12 season) and Zurich (first youthful hero, 1913/14), he served as a war volunteer in France and Russia from 1914 to 1918. 1918 character player at the Brno City Theater and director at the Riga City Theater . Then senior director at theaters in Bielefeld (1919/20), Darmstadt (1921/22), Mainz (1922/23) and Stuttgart (1923 to 1926). In Bielefeld alone, as a newspaper article on the occasion of a theater anniversary shows, he was involved in around 50 premieres and published a theater magazine.

From 1926 to 1933 he was a teacher at the State Drama School in Berlin, worked for the Funk-Hour Berlin as a writer and director of radio plays and at the same time worked as a director and production manager for film companies: 1926 to 1928 at UFA and 1928 to 1931 at Terra Film . Hoffmann-Harnisch found connection to the film probably because of his acquaintance with Ufa General Secretary Ferdinand Bausback, which he had established in Stuttgart . His directorial debut Die Frauengasse von Algier (1926/27), in which he exceeded his limit by twice, was a failure. Between 1927 and 1936 he directed the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Staatstheater Berlin . The documents of the Reichsfilm- und Reichsschrifttumskammer show that he was still under contract as a writer and director with various film companies.

In 1932 he published a serial novel with the title Spies and Spies in an SPD newspaper . Notes on the prehistory of the Russian Revolution . The turbulent story has the bomb terror of the Russian anarchists and the counter-terror of the Okhrana to the topic. Other novels were Manitus World Sinks (1935), Lord Clive. Adventure of a Lifetime (1936, banned due to allegedly pro-English tendencies) and the travel report Brazil. Portrait of a tropical empire (1938).

The Reichsschrifttumskammer refused to accept him, citing his “relaxed way of life” and “brisk Jewish intercourse” as reasons. In 1938 Hoffmann-Harnisch emigrated to Brazil with the help of his son . Here he gave guest performances, directed at various theaters (so from 1942 to 1948 at a student theater in Rio de Janeiro ), directed the German Theater in Brazil and taught at the Seminário de Arte Dramática . In 1951 he returned to Germany and from 1952 to 1958 worked as chief dramaturge and head of the radio play department at Sender Free Berlin and as head of the liaison office for cultural support for refugees from the Soviet zone / liaison office for cultural support at the Senator for Social Affairs .

His son is the actor, director and film and television producer Wolf Harnisch (actually Wolfgang Friedemann Franz Hoffmann-Harnisch, * 1918 † 1992).

Productions

Movie

• 1926/1927: The Frauengasse in Algiers (director)
• 1929: Bus No. 2 (production manager and actor)
• 1930: Fundevogel (director)
• 1932: The Iron Maiden (short film) (screenplay and direction)
• 1932: He who gives, has (short film) (screenplay and director)
• 1934: Spring Fairy Tale (screenplay)
• 1935: Liselotte of the Palatinate. Women around the Sun King (co-script)
• 1935: Forget mine not (dialogue director)
• 19 ??: The players
• 1951: The goddess of the Rio Beni (Mundo extranho) (collaboration with script)
• 1955: Admiral Bobby (TV film, Bayerischer Rundfunk) (screenplay)

Audio documents

In 1927 and 1928 Hoffmann-Harnisch recorded various texts and theater scenes in Berlin for the newly founded Electrola record company. In the acting scenes, the cast “Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch with Ensemble ”, the individual actors remain unnamed, but are most likely members of the Berlin theaters. Hoffmann-Harnisch does not always act as a spokesperson, but is probably responsible for editing, casting and directing.

September 20, 1927 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch and ensemble (speaker with vocals, choir and orchestra)

• Birthday party (part 1 and 2)
  EG 721 = 8-49266 / 67 (die number BW 1159-2 / 60-1)

September 22, 1927 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch, recitation

• Der Türmer ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) (with orchestra under Hans Schlesinger)
  EH 87 = 4-041000 (die number CWR 1168-1)
• Kaiser Friedrich's last journey ( Theodor Fontane ) (with organ [of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin ?])
  EH 87 = 4-041001 (die number CWR 1169-3)

July 2-6, 1928 Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch, recitation

• Wilhelm Tell ( Friedrich Schiller ): He has to come through this hollow alley (part 1 and 2)
  EG 1031 = 8-41021 / 22 (die number BL 4366-2 / 67-2)
• Wallenstein Lager (Friedrich Schiller): The Capuchin
  Sermon (Part 1 and 2) EG 1032 = 8-41023 / 24 (die number BL 4330-2 / 31-2)
• Old Landsknechte ( Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen ) / The two grenadiers ( Heinrich Heine )
  EG 1034 = 8-41027 / 28 (die number BL 4327-2 / 50-2)
• The ancestral picture ( Friedrich Hölderlin ) / The last song ( Heinrich von Kleist )
  EG 1035 = 8-41029 / 30 (matrix number BL 4329-1 / 68-2)
• The Hungry Cuirassier ( Gottfried Keller ) / Die Brück 'am Tay ( Theodor Fontane )
  EG 1036 = 8-41031 / 32 (die number BL 4328-2 / 41-2)
• Abendlied ( Mathias Claudius ) / The Postillon ( Nikolaus Lenau )
  EG 1040 = 8-41039 / 40 (matrix number BL 4342-2 / 49-2)
• Ir sult speak willekommen / Ich saz auf ein Stein ( Walther von der Vogelweide ) / Dû bist mîn (unknown poet) (in Middle High German)
  EG 1045 = 8-41049 / 50 (die number BL 4326-1 / 39-1)
• Nibelungenlied : Siegfrieds Tod (in Middle High German) (Part 1 and 2)
  EG 1046 = 8-41051 / 52 (matrix number BL 4379-1 / 97-2)
• Nibelungenlied: Siegfrieds Tod (in New High German by Karl Simrock ) (part 1 and 2)
  EG 1047 = 8-41053 / 54 (matrix number BL 4391-1 / 92-2)
• Odyssey ( Homer ): Nausicaa VI., 110 - 250 (parts 1 to 4)
  EG 1048/49 = 8-41055 / 58 (die number BL 4387-2 / 4388-1 / 4389-1 / 4390-1)
• Nathan the Wise ( Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ):
  Ringer story (part 1 and 2) EH 213 = 4-041010 / 11 (die number CL 43758-2 / 59-1)

July 3, 1928 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch and Bruno Schönfeld

• Gyges and his ring ( Friedrich Hebbel ): Now never
  touch the sleep of the world EG 215 = 4-041014 (die number CL 4360-1)

4th and 5th July 1928 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch with ensemble

• The Nibelungs ( Agnes Miegel )
  EG 1050 = 8-41059 (die number BL 4384-2)
• The Maid of Orleans (Friedrich Schiller): Farewell to Johanna - Farewell mountains, you beloved drifts
  EG 1050 = 8-41060 (die number BL 4393-2)
• Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe):
  Easter walk / religious talk EG 1054 = 8-41067 / 68 (matrix number BL 4377-2 / 83-1)
• Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe): How everything weaves into a whole
  EH 210 = 4-041005 (die number CL 4375-1)
• Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe): The lecture alone makes the speaker happy / I greet you, you only vial
  EH 211 = 4-041006 / 07 (die number CL 4376-2 / 69-2)
• Hanneles Himmelfahrt ( Gerhart Hauptmann ): Hanneles Tod (part 1 and 2)
  EH 212 = 4-041008 / 09 (die number CL 43785-2 / 70-2)

Most of the recordings were also published in Czechoslovakia (order number HMV AM ... = 25 cm or AN ... = 30 cm).

Funk: radio play

• Germans on all seas
• German seeds in foreign soil
• The story of the good Kasperl and the beautiful Annerl
• Justus von Liebig
• I am called a carpenter
• Colonel Redl. Author: Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch. Production SFB 1958. 70 min. (Mono). Director: Rolf von Goth. [1]
• The waltz war

and other radio plays

Fonts

• as publisher: Baltic sheets for theater and art. Berlin 1918.
• as publisher: Bielefelder Blätter for theater and art. Bielefeld 1919–1921.
• Molière. Augsburg 1922. (biography)
• Terror and Ochrana . E. Prager-Verlag, Leipzig-Vienna 1931. (= The face of time. A series of books for all 10)
• Admiral Bobby: an adventurous piece for young people. Berlin 1931 (comedy)
• The waltz king. 1932 (Singspiel)
• Fresh wind from Canada: cheerful incidents in four days. Berlin 1934 (co-author of Hans Müller's Schwank)
• Manitus world is sinking: red skin and pale face as they really were. Novel from America's early history. Berlin 1935 (novel)
• The school rider. 1935 (novella)
• Lord Clive: Adventure of a Lifetime. 1936 (novel, also in English, Portuguese and Spanish translation)
• The living are silent. 1936 (detective novel)
• The bridge of fate. 1936 (novel)
• The great Katharina: story of a career. 1937 (novel, also in Spanish translation)
• Evangeline and the Rauh-Reiter: novel of love, war and other adventures and yet a factual report. Berlin 1937 (novel)
• Brazil: Portrait of a tropical empire. Hamburg 1938 (travel report)
• Wonderland Brazil: a journey by car, train and plane. Hamburg 1938.
• Dollar millionaires among themselves: historical factual report. Stuttgart 1939.
• Socialist letters, weekly. Rio de Janeiro 1945 to 1949 (as editor)
• Brazil: a tropical empire. 1952.
• About the situation of the refugees, especially the children and young people in the camps in West Berlin . Berlin 1953.
• Brazil: a tropical empire. 1952.
• Thanks to refugees. 1955 (as an employee)
• Tie your cart to a star: Reading book for Germans. Stuttgart 1958.
• Character assassination: a boy play in 11 pictures. Emsdetten 1959.
• Look for the slave in yourself. Bonn 1961.

and unprinted plays

Illustrations

• Playbill for "All's Well That Ends Well" at the Schiller Theater [hsl. :] “Saturday February 4th, 1928”. Staged by Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch.
• Autograph by Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch “For Arnold Kurbatow very heartily” '59

literature

• Cornelia Fleer: Ms. Brisson's fantastic business. The Frauengasse in Algiers (1926/27). In: Jörg Schöning (Red.): Trivial tropes. Exotic travel and adventure films from Germany 1919–1939. (A CineGraph book). edition text + kritik, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88377-551-7 .
• Goethe celebrations in South America. In: The time. No. 22 of June 2, 1949. (online at: zeit.de )
• Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch. In: Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (eds.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 .
• Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch, Berlin, 65th birthday. In: German Stage Yearbook 1959 . Hamburg 1958
• Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. Published by Werner Schuder . de Gruyter, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-11-004381-5 .
• Reinhard Müller: Hoffmann armor. In: German Literature Lexicon. 3. Edition. Volume 7. Francke, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-7720-1461-5 .
• Wolfgang Struck: The conquest of the imagination. Colonialism, literature and film between the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. (= Palaestra. 333). 1st edition. Verlag V & R Unipress, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-769-3 , pp. 225, 321, 233-239, 343.

Web links

• Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Kelly: His Master's voice / The voice of his master. Greenwood Press, Westport 1994, ISBN 0-313-29220-5 and Electrola music records . Berlin 1929.