Hans Bunge

Hans Bunge (actually Hans- Joachim Bunge, born December 3, 1919 in Arnsdorf, † 27 May 1990 in Berlin) was a German playwright, director and author. Bunge became famous through his conversations with Hanns Eisler about Brecht.

Life

Hans Bunge joined the Nazi Party in 1938, was from 1939 to 1943 at the Reich Labor Service or the Armed Forces and to 1949 in Soviet captivity.

After his return to Germany he studied from 1950 to 1953 German Studies, Art Studies and History of Theatre in Greifswald. He was assistant director and assistant dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble Through mediation Ruth Berlau. 1956 to 1962 he headed the Bertolt Brecht Archive and led highly acclaimed interviews with staff and students of Bertolt Brecht, about whom he received his doctorate in 1957.

According to personal differences with Helene Weigel Bunge joined the German Academy of Arts (DAK ), where he first took care of the historical-critical edition of the works of Brecht and later special issue of the literary magazine " form and meaning " and others to Hanns Eisler, Thomas Mann and Willi Bredel published. In 1965, the politically inconvenient Bunge, who was friends with Wolf Biermann, Heiner Müller and Robert Havemann, summarily dismissed at the 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the SED of the DAK.

1968-1970 Bunge worked as a director and dramaturg at the People's Theatre in Rostock, 1970-1978 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. He then worked as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 1976 he was one of the signatories of the protest letter against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann.

Writings

  • Werner Hecht, Hans -Joachim Bunge, Käthe Rülicke -Weiler: Bertolt Brecht. Life and work, Berlin 1963
  • Ask more about Brecht. Hanns Eisler in conversation, Munich 1970
  • Brecht Lai -tu. Memories and notations by Ruth Berlau, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1985
  • The debate about Hanns Eisler " Johann Faustus " (ed.), Berlin 1991
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