Alexander Borell

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Alexander Borell (born November 2, 1913 in Strasbourg ; † October 31, 1998 in Kaufbeuren ) was a German author of numerous entertainment and serial novels as well as a screenwriter .

Life

In the 1970s and 1980s he also wrote as a life advisor for the German TV program magazines Bild + Funk and Gong and hosted the program "I have a problem. Questions to Alexander Borell" for Südwestfunk. During the same period he also wrote numerous articles on the subject of amateur photography and cine film for the magazines FotoMagazin and ColorFoto as well as ColorFilm and later Film & Video . He also wrote several non-fiction books on photography and camera technology. He became legendary for photo amateurs through his entertaining and sometimes quite sarcastic essays and test reports under the self-chosen pseudonym "Nörgelmann" (quote: "When the sun is shining, every bottle bottom is sharp"). Alexander Borell died on October 31, 1998 in a sanatorium in Kaufbeuren.

Works

Crime novels

  • The dead in the red Packard , Moewig Kriminalroman Großband 21, 1958
  • The boozy parrot , Moewig crime novel Großband 28 (1962 Heyne 1063), 1958
  • Hibiscus flowers (Heyne No. 19) (1962 Heyne 1003), 1959
  • The angel of Santa Marguerita (Heyne 54) (1962 Heyne 1011), 1960
  • The dead in the red Cadillac (Heyne 1049), 1962
  • The night in Issy (Heyne 1111), 1963
  • Even a raccoon can be wrong (Heyne 1099), 1963
  • Murder in B minor (Heyne 1120), 1964
  • The blonde widow (Heyne 1173) (1981 Heyne 1953), 1965
  • The lonely house (Heyne 1251), 1967
  • The devil with the blond hair (Bastei Brokat 53), 1969
  • Call from Nice - A heart is wrong (Kelter 210), 1974

Novels

  • Love has a thousand eyes (Heyne 384), 1960
  • Father unknown (Heyne 401), 1961
  • Tell me where love is (Heyne 496), 1964
  • I don't know who you are (Moewig 16) (1973 Kelter), 1966
  • Small island, big love (bastion), 1966
  • Summer of Life (Pabel) TV Romance No. 2, 1968
  • Affair with obstacles (Moewig A 83), 1970
  • The Bells of Gandria - A novel about a little luck in the big film world (Kelter 179), 1973
  • Our son Stefan - a novel about two generations (Kelter 230), 1975

Non-fiction

  • Konica, mon amour (Heering), 1975
  • The Mamiya M 645 (Heering), 1980
  • Konica. The "F" series (Heering), 1982
  • Alexander Borell answers (Urban), 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ColorFoto 1/99 p. 3, Matthias Zipfel
personal data
SURNAME Borell, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of numerous entertainment and serial novels as well as screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1998
Place of death Kaufbeuren