Hanus Burger

Hanus Burger, also known as Hans (Herbert) Burger and Jan Burger, and under the pseudonym Hans Herbert and the alias Petr Hradec, ( born June 4, 1909 in Prague, † 13 November 1990 in Munich) was a theater, film - and television director, playwright and author of plays, books and screenplays.

Life

Burger retired in the 1920s in the German Empire. After he had worked 1931-1932 in Hamburg as an assistant director, playwright and stage and party to a collective Hamburg actor, he returned in 1932 because of the political situation in the Third Reich in Czechoslovakia back.

He worked there until the year 1936 as director, dramaturge and stage designer in the New German Theatre of Prague, which was led at that time by Paul Eger. There he staged et al the piece Bessie Bosch, which had been written by John deserts. The two leading roles were filled by Fritta Brod and Erich friend. While working for Prague's Urania, he was also occasionally used by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as a courier. After he left only after Austria and then returned to Czechoslovakia, the American journalist Herbert Kline assigned him to make a documentary on the situation in the Sudetenland after the German occupation. The result of this order was the movie Crisis.

Towards the end of 1938, Burger fled from Czechoslovakia. He came over France in the United States, where he taught in New York at the theater school of Lee Strasberg and other documentation turned. In 1941, the entry into the armed forces of the United States, where he was a member of a department within the staff group for propaganda and psychological warfare (P & PW Detachment ) of the 12th Army Group later, the German newspapers should issue. This department was led from autumn 1944 by Hans Habe. At Radio Luxembourg burger was later a director primarily responsible for the station in 1212, which had also started operation in 1944. It was a U.S. propaganda station, who belonged to the operation Annie.

Then he turned with a Billy Wilder film that was about German concentration camps and the death mills was called before in New York City became the documentary program designer at the United Nations later.

Now he was first reviewed in the U.S. within the Committee to combat " un-American machinations ", returned to Prague, where he was because his emigration targets of Stalin's purges and the consequences of the Prague Spring. He became the chief director of the Prague children's television. After he had in 1968 signed the Manifesto of 2000 words, in the same year he fled again to the West, this time to Munich. He became a " non-person " for the KSČ Exiting the Eastern Bloc. In Munich, he continued with his work for film and television.

Works

Theater

• Our damage to the leg, Time Critical Review in three parts. After a stretch of JM Prigge, directed by Hans Burger, Hamburger collective actor, guest performance at the Volksoper Hamburg, May 1932
• Tom Sawyer's big adventure. A play in six images based on the novel by Mark Twain - by Hans Burger and Stefan Heym, a performance is not known. A radio play processing of burgers and Heym, directed by Heiner Möbius was recorded in 1962, all rights of broadcasting and public performance are the henschel Theater Theater Verlag Berlin.

• The spring was worth it. Autobiography, C.Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1977
• 1212 Sends. Historical novel, German military Verlag, Berlin, 1965

Filmography (selection)

Interview

• Hanus Burger: But nothing, the connection came, and I had to leave Vienna. In: Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (ed.): departure into the unknown. Austrian filmmakers in exile before 1945. Wasp nest, Vienna 1993