Hans Scholz

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Hans Scholz (born February 20, 1911 in Berlin ; † November 29, 1988 there ) was a German writer , journalist and painter .

Life

Hans Scholz, whose father was a legal advisor , attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium in his hometown Berlin , where he did his Abitur . From 1930 to 1935 he studied art history at the Berlin University . During these years he also played the saxophone in a dance band and received painting training at a state art school. From 1935 to 1951 Scholz worked primarily as a painter ; he worked during this time from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1950 as a teacher at a private art school. In 1939 he completed a course at the Prussian Academy of the Arts as a master student with the painter Ferdinand Spiegel . At the Second World War Scholz took part from 1940 to 1945, first as a driver and later as an officer at a Mountain Division . In 1945 he was taken prisoner.

After his release from captivity, Hans Scholz worked as an interior designer for the Soviet military administration in Berlin-Karlshorst in 1948/49 . From 1950 to 1954 he was a lecturer in art history at a community college , and he also wrote scripts for advertising and documentary films . His literary debut on the green beach of the Spree developed into one of the great sales successes of the 1950s; In the next few years, Scholz shifted the focus of his work to literature. He made numerous contributions to radio, television and newspapers. From 1963 to 1976 he was, alongside Heinz Ohff, head of the feature pages of the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel . In the last two decades of his life he returned to painting.

Grave of Hans Scholz in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Hans Scholz, who had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1961, of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1963 and of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1968 , received the Berlin Fontane Prize in 1956 and the Heinrich Stahl Prize in 1960 Prize and in 1981 the title of honorary professor .

Hans Scholz died in Berlin at the end of November 1988 at the age of 77. His grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 5-C-7).

Works

  • On the green beach of the Spree - As good as a novel , Hamburg 1955
  • Schkola , Munich 1958
  • Berlin , Cologne 1959 (together with Chargesheimer )
  • Berlin, look forward to it! , Hamburg 1960
  • Berlin for beginners , Zurich 1961
  • To Havel, Spree and Oder , Hamburg 1962
  • The Prince Kaspar Hauser , Hamburg 1964
  • Birds sing something nice for me , Gütersloh 1965 (together with Heinz Ohff )
  • Berlin , Berlin 1968 (together with Max Jacoby)
  • South-east there and back , Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-455-06768-9
  • Hikes and trips in the Mark Brandenburg , Berlin, ISBN 3-87776-516-5
    • 1 (1973)
    • 2 (1974)
    • 3 (1975)
    • 4 (1976)
    • 5 (1977)
    • 6 (1978)
    • 7 (1979)
    • 8 (1980)
    • 9 (1983)
    • 10 (1984)
  • Pictures from the Mark Brandenburg , Berlin 1975 (together with Klaus Lehnartz ), ISBN 3-87776-531-9
  • Berlin , Munich 1977
  • Theodor Fontane , Munich 1978

Editing

  • Birds sing something beautiful to me. Documents from childhood (together with Heinz Ohff ). Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1965.
  • One language, many tongues (together with Heinz Ohff). Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1966.

Filmography

Adaptation of the novel

Directorial work

  • 1953: Budenzauber - Authors: Wolfgang Müller ; Klaus Günter Neumann (TV)
  • 1953: Strolling through the streets - Author: Günter Neumann (television)
  • 1953: Globetrottling (television)
  • 1953: What is not in the Baedecker: Please, board the cheese tour! - Author: Günter Neumann (television)
  • 1953: Himself is the man - Author: Klaus Günter Neumann (television)
  • 1953: The Ku 'Damm' up and down '- Author: Günter Neumann (television)
  • 1953: Charles III. and Anna von Österreich - Author: Manfried Rössner ; Directed together with Curt Goetz-Pflug (TV film)
  • 1953: Oh, you dear freedom - author and second director: Harald Philipp (television)
  • 1954: Die Fuchsjagd (TV director) - Author: Agatha Christie ; Theater direction: Werner Simon
  • 1954: a nice present - Reinhard Elsner's assistant director (television)
  • 1955: The 10 was her fate - Authors: Jo Herbst ; Rolf Ulrich (TV)
  • 1955: Who wants to do it again ... - Author: Günter Neumann (television)
  • 1956: A Man for Jenny (TV director) - Writer: William Douglas-Home ; Theater direction: Peter Preses

Radio plays

As an author and speaker

  • 1956: On the green beach of the Spree (5 parts) (also speaker) - Director: Gert Westphal ( SWF )
  • 1957: The report of Jürgen Wilms (from the first part of On the green beach of the Spree without a framework) - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1958: Signs and Numbers - A report in letters about Israel (Speaker: NN) - Director: Gert Westphal (SWF)
  • 1958: Remontons le Kurfürstendamm. The story of a world city street (Speaker: NN) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel ( RIAS )
  • 1958: Kaspar Hauser - Director: Gert Westphal (SWF / BR )
  • 1959: Brandenburg Gate (also speaker) - Director: Gert Westphal (RIAS / SWF / RB )
  • 1959: Potsdam - Contours of a City (also speaker) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel (RIAS)
  • 1959: Berlin and Samuel Fischer - images of fate in the change of a cosmopolitan city (together with Friedrich Luft ) - director: Hanns Korngiebel (RIAS)
  • 1961: Around Kroll's establishment (also speaker) - Director: Hermann Schindler (RIAS)
  • 1962: Frankfurt an der Oder - From the history of the daughter city of Berlin (also speaker) - Director: Gert Westphal (RIAS)
  • 1969: Your famous brother, whom nobody knows - Theodor Fontane : A French from Neuruppin - Director: Gert Westphal (RIAS)

Only as a speaker

  • 1949: A Long Way - Editing and Direction: Hanns Korngiebel (RIAS)
  • 1957: The Ides of March - Director: Gert Westphal ( NDR )
  • 1979: The expert. Art and cannon: the dual abilities of Dr. Jonathan Hemlock - composition and direction: Friedrich Scholz (RIAS)

literature

  • Wolfgang Schuller: On board the Albatros , Stendal 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1988
Place of death Berlin