Rudolf Beiswanger

Rudolf Beiswanger (born 22 February 1903 in Altona, today a district in Hamburg; died 12 October 1984 in Hamburg) was a German actor, radio and radio actor, radio director and theatre director. After his acting training he received his first engagement at the Kurtheater Helgoland. In the 1930s he joined Richard Ohnsorg as an actor at the Ohnsorg Theatre, which was then still called Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg. After World War II he took over the management of the house until 1949/50 because Ohnsorg had to give up this task under pressure from the British military government.Before the war he was also a radio speaker at Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) and its successor, the Reichsssender Hamburg.In 1940 his play Du...!, which was premiered on his stage, appeared.The two-person piece plays at the end of the Thirty Years' War and is about two young people, who happen to meet in a Kate and try to build a life together in the dawning peacetime after the turmoil of the long war, which until then influenced them. Ten years later, the piece was adapted by Hans Freundt for the radio and first broadcast by the NWDR Hamburg on September 30, 1950. The speakers were Beiswanger himself and Heidi Kabel. At the end of the 1940s, the ensemble of the Ohnsorg Theatre was discovered for radio. It was to be heard in numerous, mostly oral radio plays of the most diverse genres. Rudolf Beiswanger appeared as a speaker and also as a director. Since 1955, he was also one of the actors of the short-list play series Neues aus Waldhagen, which was broadcast in the context of the school radio program of the NWDR Hamburg and later of the NDR, in order to convey social content.Ulf-Thomas Lesle praised Beiswanger's merits as the director of the Ohnsorg Theatre. He had only tried with "a courageous play plan, with high- and flat-German plays "to free this stage from the oppressive load of Völkische thinking, which had "beenided itself there from the beginning". He often appeared in major and major supporting roles, such as the television series Captain Harmsen and Kümo Henriette or the television film Die Dubrow-Krisis von Wolfgang Menge. Among the feature films in which he appeared were the Heide, Klein Erna on Jungfernstieg and Panische Zeiten by and with Udo Lindenberg.Beiswanger was married to Erna Beiswanger, née Stegen (1905–1977). Rudolf Beiswanger died on 12 October 1984. The urn grave of the couple was on the main cemetery Altona until the end of the rest period.