David Zane Mairowitz

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David Zane Mairowitz (born April 30, 1943 in New York City ) is an American writer .

Life

Mairowitz studied English literary history and philosophy at Hunter College, New York and theater studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1966 he moved to Great Britain and worked as a freelance journalist and writer. In addition to his journalistic work, he has written short stories and plays . Its radio plays and features are produced by numerous radio stations across Europe. For Planet aus Asche he received the Prix ​​Ostankino in Moscow in 1996 , and in 1997 the Prix ​​Italia for Der voluptuous Tango (BBC). His play Im Krokodilssumpf became radio play of the month January 2005 and “Best European Radio Drama of the Year 2005” at the largest European television, radio and internet competition PRIX EUROPA.

Mairowitz has lived in Europe since 1966, today in Avignon and Berlin .

The radio plays about Yevgeny Marlov

Since 2006 Mairowitz has been writing dialogue books for a radio series of radio plays that revolves around the self-proclaimed private detective Marlov. Yevgeny Marlov was still a secret police officer in the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs in Leningrad in 1934, when the first radio play was published . After his return from the GULag he works as a tolerated, little loved private detective. Mairowitz likes to weave important moments in Soviet history into the story about the fictional character of Yevgniy Marlov (alluding to Philip Marlowe ). In doing so, he often selects events that have not yet been fully clarified or are questionable. Marlov is a timeless character who investigated both in the 30s and in the 80s without aging audibly - in this trick he is similar to the character of James Bond in the films.

Yevgeniy Marlov will be spoken by Udo Schenk , the leitmotif for the first three radio plays in the series is Waltz No. 2 from the Suite for Variety Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich . In the meantime, twelve radio plays have been created, all of which were produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln :

I killed Kirov

Leningrad 1934: The first secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party, Sergei Mironowitsch Kirov, is shot dead in the party headquarters of the CPSU . There are witnesses, a perpetrator and a confession. Nevertheless, Marlov is entrusted with investigations, during which he becomes more and more involved in intra-party intrigues and blackouts. Production: WDR 2006

Marlov's return

Disgraced by his investigation into the murder of Kirov, Marlov is abducted to the GULag. Accidentally escaped from being shot, shortly after Stalin's death in 1953, he was brought to Moscow to conduct investigations again. Here, too, he is caught between all stools. Production: WDR 2007

Romanian rhapsody

Nikita Khrushchev sends Marlov, whom he met in the course of his investigation into Stalin's death, to Romania to investigate a puzzling bank robbery that was foisted on Jewish intellectuals. Marlov gets to Nicolae Ceaușescu , who takes power. The background to this is a bank robbery that was actually staged in Bucharest in 1959 and is still considered one of the most controversial political cases of the communist era. Production: WDR 2008

Marlov and the corpse

Khrushchev turns to Marlov again: In 1961, Stalin's body disappears - Marlov is investigated and once again falls into a trap. Production: WDR 2009

Marlov and the Alfa Spider

This time Marlov is supposed to get an old Alfa Romeo Spider from Italy for the car-mad Brezhnev. There he is waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Magdalena Goncharova, who is supposed to help him with the secret transfer of the car. Production: WDR 2011

Return to Irkutsk

On behalf of Zofia Danilova, Marlov is looking for her daughter Vladilena, who worked for a brigade that builds the Baikal-Amur railroad across Siberia. A crime thriller about violence and corruption set in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Composition: Bernd Keul; Director: Jörg Schlueter. Production: WDR 2012

A tough nut to crack

Marlov is supposed to accompany the Kirov Ballet on a trip abroad to London in the early 80s and prevent dancers from moving abroad. The real reason: On behalf of Yuri Andropov , he is supposed to murder the dancer Rudolf Nureyev , who fled to the West in 1961 . Production: WDR 2013

Inschallah, Marlov

In the run-up to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989), private detective Marlov was brought from a psychiatric "reformatory" to carry out a delicate assignment. He is supposed to eliminate Hafizullah Amin in Kabul , who is standing in the way of the political plans of the Soviets. The action takes place in the context of Operation Storm-333 . Production: WDR 2015

Marlov and the Kremlin Pill

After his return from Afghanistan, Marlov accepts the assignment of a young woman whose grandfather intends to secretly leave the Soviet Union via Turkey. This supposedly private contract quickly became politically explosive. The Jewish grandfather , a respected pharmacist and professor, is well known to the Kremlin. Production: WDR 2016

Marlov - Blue

Marlov is set to clear up the death of Sergei Smirnov, who allegedly passed away after a long incurable illness. The traces lead to the Moscow homosexual milieu, to the secret realm of the "Blue", which is not even allowed to be talked about in the Soviet Union, since such "Western, criminal activities" do not officially exist there. Production: WDR 2016

Marlov and the Moscow Bombing Circus

Marlov receives an assignment from the wife of a famous dissident to get a lawyer out of town to serve as a scapegoat for a series of bombings. In doing so, he not only gets in the way of the state apparatus, but also of Armenian terrorists. Production: WDR 2018

Marlov in Jerusalem

Moscow 1988: Marlov, a self-proclaimed private detective, is given the task of looking for a missing young woman. But his suspicion is aroused immediately - he should really be paid for it. He becomes even more suspicious when he finds out that the person he is looking for has left the country with an official visa made out to a man. To Jerusalem of all places . Once there, Marlov finds himself right between the fronts of the police, the secret service and an ultra-national conspiracy. But with all his physical effort, he manages to find the trace of the young woman. Production: WDR 2019

More radio plays

  • 2001: Sherlock Holmes and the Karl Marx case Composition: Matthias Thurow , Director: Dieter Carls , Production: WDR / SFB Length: 58:36 minutes; Ulrich Matthes in the lead role. The radio play was published in 2013 by Der Audio Verlag in the box Die verschollenenfall .
  • 2012: Category 5: How I Rescued Fats Domino from Hurricane Katrina, also Director (SRF)
  • 2014: Three songs, 1954 - also directed (radio play - RBB)
  • 2015: Hornet Memory - also director (radio play - SRF / ORF)
  • 2018: Mono - also directing (radio play - WDR)

Prices

  • 1989 Gilles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play
  • 1996 Ostankino Prize for Planet from Ashes
  • 1997 Prix ​​Italia (Special Prize for Radio Fiction) for The Voluptuous Tango
  • 1997 Sony Gold Award
  • 2002 Grand Prix Marulic Documentary Award
  • 2005 Prix ​​Europa : Best European radio play of 2005 for Im Krokodilsumpf

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marlov - Return to Irkutsk , WDR, accessed April 22, 2018
  2. ↑ https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/radio/wdr5/2013/07/20130727_marlov.html
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Radio play "Marlov - Blue" by David Zane Mairowitz , WDR 2016-11-14, accessed 2016-12-04
  5. ↑ Radio play "Marlov and the Moscow Bomb Circus" by David Zane Mairowitz , WDR, accessed 2018-08-16
  6. ^ WDR: WDR 3 radio play - Marlov in Jerusalem - press lounge - WDR. September 16, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mairowitz, David Zane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City