Gerd von Hassler
Gerd von Hassler (* August 28, 1928; † January 7, 1989; actually Hans Leo Hassler to Gerd von Roseneckh ) was a German writer, director, radio speaker, composer, singer, journalist and producer.
Life
Gerd von Hassler was born in or near Augsburg. One of his ancestors was the musician and organist Hans Leo Hassler. At 15, he enlisted as a minesweeper in the Second World War, but broke up soon by the evil spirit of National Socialism and deserted.
After the war, he studied literature, music and early history, and lived from 1953 to 1963 in Frankfurt am Main. Camillo rims, the future host of the successful show " Games without frontiers ", recognized his journalistic talent and took him to Radio Luxembourg, where, inter alia, by Hassler was entrusted with the design of the award of the " Golden Lion".
In 1963 he moved from Hassler with his first wife and three children in the media city of Hamburg, where he wrote as a freelance writer feuilleton articles and movie reviews. Among other things, his reports in the "world ", the world appeared on Sunday and in the mirror.
Rather, as a by- product of this work, he began the work for which he would become famous: He wrote children's plays, in which his attention was directed to Kasper stories in which he himself the leading roles of the Kaspers, the Seppls, the "little hedgehog " and many others spoke more. Apart from Hassler various German actor and cabaret artist worked on this some forty Kasper - LPs with, including Ingrid Ohlenschläger (1926-1999), Jens Kiehn († ), Heinz Fabian, Ursula Graeff, Eva Zlonitzki, Hella von der Osten -Sacken, Karin Lieneweg and Gisela Engelhardt. The plates published by a variety of labels such as EUROPE, maritime, BASF, metronome or in the Perl series. A special feature of these recordings is to say that they are so formed without fixed written text only due to an exposé of Hassler; the actresses and actors had - as well as Hassler himself - during the recordings so improvise along the predetermined storyline.
In addition to the Kasper stories he wrote and produced some thirty other children and youth radio plays, for example, after the Grimm's fairy tales, stories of 1001 nights or stories of Karl May, but also science fiction radio plays like a visitor from outer space.
In addition, he produced a total of 27 records with or composed of arranged music he: Shanties, student songs, folk music and children's songs. On some of them Gerd von Hassler is under the pseudonym - or rather its alternative name - Hans Roseneckh as a singer with a deep voice ( and in excellent English ) to hear, for example, on the LP on the high seas together with Jörn Harder.
Part-time, he became involved in the Hamburg local politics. In 1966 he ran against Erik Blumenfeld for the post of chairman of the National Association of Hamburg CDU, this election but lost almost.
From the late 1970s he worked as a journalist again and wrote increasingly 1976-1987 consuming five popular science books with often organic accent.
In the 1980s, attracted by Hassler, who had previously lived in Lütjensee in Hamburg, together with his second wife Yasmine back to his native Bavaria, first to Ampfing, later to Mette home. From there, he was involved in a project called Charitable Society to secure the future: After the Chernobyl disaster he wanted on a sprawling territory in Bavaria a " refuge area " for humans and animals based on the model of the Ark build. The Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss (CSU ) was inspired for this company.
But the implementation of this project, it should not come, because Gerd von Hassler died, only 60 years old, on January 7, 1989 to Pancreatic Cancer.
His children audio plays, particularly the Kasper plates are enjoying as antiquarian collectibles to this day popular.
Writings
- Noah's way to the Amazon, 1976
- Puzzling knowledge, 1977
- When the earth tilts, 1981
- World without emergency exit, 1984
- The people foolish fear of the future, 1987
Swell
- Collection of Gerd von Hassler Kasper radio plays in the puppet theater collection of Gerd J. Pohl