Herbert Reinecker

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Herbert Reinecker (born December 24, 1914 in Hagen ; † January 27, 2007 in Kempfenhausen on Lake Starnberg ) was a German journalist and author of books for young people , novels and screenplays . He also published under the pseudonyms Alex Berg and Herbert Dührkopp . Reinecker gained particular fame through the conception and scripts of the television series Der Kommissar , Derrick and (in the initial phase) Siska .

Beginnings

Herbert Reinecker was born the son of a railroad conductor. He attended the Protestant elementary school and high school in Hagen . At the age of 15 he was already working as a freelancer for the Hagener Zeitung, for which he wrote feature articles. Since April 1932 he was a member of the Hitler Youth , in which he belonged to the Flieger-HJ. In 1935 he graduated from high school and then became editor-in-chief of the magazine Our Flag in Münster, which was jointly published by the HJ regional management of Westphalia and the state youth welfare office . From April 1935 Reinecker worked full-time in the press and propaganda office of the Reich Youth Leadership .

After the reintroduction of compulsory military service in 1935, he completed a two-month training course in Rathenow . In January 1936 he became the chief editor of the HJ Reichszeitung Der Pimpf , which was aimed at members of the young people . From the same year he published propaganda books for young people, and from 1939 also novels and short stories. His work The Man with the Violin (1939) was filmed in 1942 under the title Der Fall Rainer . From 1938 Reinecker was employed full-time at the Franz-Eher-Verlag . In 1937/38 he married Angela Schmikowski, with whom he had a daughter and a son. The marriage ended in divorce in 1954.

Reinecker also attended a course for screenwriters at Tobis Filmgesellschaft . During World War II , Reinecker was a war correspondent in a propaganda company of the Waffen SS in Romania , Russia , Flanders and Pomerania . During the war years, some propagandistic stage plays were created ( The Hour of Triumph , The Village near Odessa and Beacon ). His drama The Hour of Triumph over the Irish Struggle for Independence was premiered in Saarbrücken in 1940 . Reinecker fell ill with dysentery and barely escaped death.

In 1942 Reinecker also became chief editor of the HJ magazine Junge Welt . He was assigned to the Press and Propaganda Office in the Reich Youth Leadership and joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1943 (membership number 9.642.252). In December 1942 his anti-Soviet play The Village near Odessa was premiered, which was supposed to depict the fate of the ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union and which became one of the most played plays of the Nazi era. His screenplay for the youth propaganda film Junge Adler was filmed in 1944 by his friend Alfred Weidenmann . On April 5, 1945, he wrote the last leading article for the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps . Shortly before the end of the war, he left Berlin and found shelter on Lake Wörthersee .

Post-war career

Reinecker initially lived for three months in hiding on a farm in Carinthia, then in Hamburg, Halver and Hanover. Since 1948 he lived in Landstuhl and wrote under changing pseudonyms. After the war, his applications for journalism positions were rejected. Reinecker initially stayed afloat as the head and sole author of a feature press service in the Palatinate . He has written novels, plays, numerous short stories and, since 1947, texts for the Ulenspiegel cabaret in Cologne . In 1951 he settled in Hamburg, where he wrote radio plays for the NWDR together with Christian Bock under the pseudonym Herbert Dührkopp . His novel Children, Mothers and a General, about the history of seduced children in the last days of the war, was also made into a film. His final breakthrough came with the screenplay for Canaris , an idealization of the title character, for which he was awarded the Federal Film Prize.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Reinecker was a sought-after screenwriter a. a. for Edgar Wallace films , often under the pseudonym Alex Berg . He was honored with film prizes for working together with Alfred Weidenmann . In 1959 Reinecker married his second wife Brunhilde, with whom he lived in Berg am Starnberger See from 1964 until his death.

In the Soviet Zone / GDR several of the writings he published were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

By the producer Helmut Ringel man he came in contact with the television and initially wrote screenplays in the tradition of Francis Durbridge , partly to street sweepers were ( Death runs behind , Babeck , 11:20 ). His greatest successes were his television crime series Der Kommissar (1969-1976) with 97 episodes and Derrick (1974-1998) with 281 episodes. He also developed the concept for the Siska series and wrote the scripts for four episodes. In addition, TV films and TV specials such as Jakob and Adele , A woman stays a woman with Lilli Palmer , Das Traumschiff and Georg Thomalla's stories were made.

Herbert Reinecker loved traveling, sailing and golf . He suffered from an eye disease, so that in the end he could only dictate his texts on tape. The writer died at the age of 92 in his house in Kempfenhausen, Berg am Starnberger See.

Works (in selection)

Filmography

Novels, short stories, books for young people

  • with Heinz Ehring: Youth in Arms. Osmer, Berlin 1936.
  • Decide on skis. HJ Fischer, Berlin / Leipzig 1936.
  • The great change (= Skald books. 47) Schmidt & Spring, Leipzig 1938.
  • Pimpfenwelt. Limpert, Berlin 1938.
  • Hans Hinrich, the robber (= books of the boys. 6). Loewe, Stuttgart 1939.
  • The man with the violin. The home library, Berlin 1939.
  • Tanks forward! Tank men tell of the campaign in Poland. The home library, Berlin 1939.
  • Grenadiers storm ... Booklets for the training work of the Hitler Youth, Berlin 1943.
  • Bogan and his animals (= Trifels master volumes. 1). Trifels, Speyer / Mannheim 1949.
  • Bogan, the jungle god (= Trifels master volumes. 2). Trifels, Speyer / Mannheim 1950.
  • Hostile homeland (= Trifels master volumes. 2). Trifels, Speyer / Mannheim 1949.
  • Children, mothers, and a general. 1953.
  • Taiga. Kindler, Munich 1958.
  • Our doctor. Story of a Country Doctor. Lichtenberg, Munich 1964.
  • The commissioner. Lichtenberg, Munich 1970.
  • The inspector asks. Lichtenberg, Munich 1971.
  • The Hong Kong girl. Schulz, Percha 1973.
  • Fire at the end of the tunnel. Schulz, Percha 1974.
  • Derrick Junior: The telltale number. 1977.
  • Derrick Junior: Alarm at ping pong. 1977.
  • The stronger sex. Goldmann, Munich 1977.
  • Derrick Junior: Unequal opponents. 1978.
  • The commissioner. The Quimper case. 1978.
  • A little hallelujah. Stories. Schneekluth, Munich 1981.
  • I bring the joy with me. 1981.
  • I forgot to get flowers. Stories. Schneekluth, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7951-0813-6
  • The trip to Tierra del Fuego. Langen-Müller, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7844-1999-2
  • A memorial is shot. Herbig, Munich / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7766-1516-8
  • A time report with the help of your own résumé. Straube, Erlangen / Bonn / Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-927491-17-9 ; reviewed new edition: The Illusions of the Past. A personal time report. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-548-33151-3
  • Waiting for message. Edition Steinmeier, Nördlingen 2001, ISBN 3-927496-91-X
  • Tell me where i'm going Anthology. Edition Steinmeier, Nördlingen 2004, ISBN 3-936363-20-X

Radio plays

  • 1950: Feindliche Heimat - Director: Eduard Hermann ( NWDR Cologne )
  • 1950: A man named Lehmann - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1951: Tomorrow you have to answer - Director: Eduard Hermann (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1951: Morphium - Director: Albert Carl Weiland ( Radio Saarbrücken )
  • 1951: The Conspiracy - Director: Eduard Hermann (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1951: The devil goes on the express train - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1951: The Devil Rides 3rd Class - Director: Hanns Korngiebel ( RIAS )
  • 1951: The Crimean War took place anyway - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1951: Emergency Housing Department - Director: Gustav Burmester (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1951: Father needs a wife - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1952: Father Needs a Wife - Director: Paul Land ( SDR )
  • 1952: You have to have a pig - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1952: Carousel for sale - Director: Helmut Käutner (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1952: Peace Treaty - Director: Detlof Krüger (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1952: Father needs a wife - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm ( BR )
  • 1952: Carousels are made in heaven - Director: Paul Land (SDR)
  • 1952: Gerlach presents the bill - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1959: Peace Treaty - Director: Ludwig Cremer ( NDR )
  • 1963: Father needs a wife - Director: Otto Düben (SDR)
  • 2004: The Jesus of Stallupönen

Dramas

  • 1940 The Hour of Triumph (play in 5 acts)
  • 1942 The village near Odessa (play in 1 act)
  • 1944 Leuchtfeuer (drama in 5 acts)
  • 1963 night train (drama)

Awards

literature

Memberships (selection)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 , p. 1200.
  2. ^ Markus Köster: Youth, the welfare state and society in transition. Westphalia between the Empire and the Federal Republic. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-79602-X , p. 256.
  3. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek : Herbert Reinecker: Derrick and his creator, the SS officer . In: The world . September 15, 2011. - The village in Odessa , performed in Lübeck 1943/44 cf. Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 262-264, 574.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 478.
  5. ↑ Letter E , Letter P & Letter R . In: German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (Ed.): List of the literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946
  6. ↑ letters Q and R . In: German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (Ed.): List of the literature to be sorted out. Second addendum. Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1948
  7. ↑ letters Q and R . In: Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic (Hrsg.): List of the literature to be sorted out. Third addendum. VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1953
personal data
SURNAME Reinecker, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Alex (pseudonym); Dührkopp, Herbert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2007
Place of death Kempfenhausen