Austrian Hans Naderer was a Catholic playwright and a journalist. Naderer was originally chamber stenographer and a Christian-Social union official. During his stay in Russian captivity in Siberia in World War I, he discovered his dramatic talent, but later was a full-time post-war parliamentary stenographer, and was deputy editor of the 1934-38 parliamentary correspondence. As he did not follow the Nazi philosophy, he was shunned by them. Naderer wrote novels, short stories and plays, of which 27 were enacted. His work Der Nationalheld (The national hero) was submitted together with Heinrich Rienössl to the 1936 Berlin Art Competitions. The play is only available as a director’s and prompter’s book in the form of a duplicated manuscript. The comedy in four acts deals with the Olympic Games and was performed in Wien (Vienna) (premiered on August 26th 1936) and Zürich, amongst others. A young man has to pass his final school examination, but wins the marathon of fictitious Olympics Games in the USA, while his father carries on unsuccessfully financial negotiations at the same time.
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