Alfred Hayes (writer)

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Alfred Hayes (born April 18, 1911 in London , † August 14, 1985 ) was an English writer . He wrote screenplays for cinema and television, novels and poems . Hayes lived in Italy and the United States . He is best known for his poem " Joe Hill " ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ..."), which was set to music by Earl Robinson .

Life

Hayes was born in London , graduated from City College of New York (now part of the City University of New York ), worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and began his literary work in the 1930s. During the Second World War he served in Europe in the US Army Special Services (the "Combat Morale Division"). He then lived in Rome and wrote scripts for films of Italian neorealism . As a co-author of Roberto Rossellini's film Paisà (1946) he was nominated for an Oscar ; he received another Oscar nomination in 1951 for Teresa . Hayes also worked his novel The Girl on the Via Flaminia into a play; In 1953 it was filmed as Un acte d'amour ( An act of love ). He was an unmentioned co-author of Vittorio de Sica's neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948), for which he also wrote the English subtitles.

His screenplays in the US include The Lusty Men (1952, directed by Nicholas Ray ) and the adaptation of the musical Lost in the Stars by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill (1974). Hayes wrote television scripts for the American series Alfred Hitchcock Presents , The Twilight Zone and Mannix , among others .

His brother Raphael Hayes (1915-2010) also worked as a screenwriter.

Works

Volumes of poetry

  • The Big Time (1944)
  • Welcome to the Castle (1950)
  • Just Before the Divorce (1968)

Novels

  • All Thy Conquests (1946, German All thy victories )
  • The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949, German first under the title Das Mädchen auf der Via Flaminia , later published as an act of love )
  • Shadow of Heaven (1947)
  • In Love (1953)
    • German first published in 1956 under the title Liebe invited me in a translation by Carl Bach by Rowohlt Verlag . This translation was also published in paperback in 1962 and was reprinted in 1991 under the title In Love . In 2015 a new translation by Matthias Fienbork was published by Verlag Nagel & Kimche , also under the title In Love .
  • My Face for the World to See. 1958
  • The Stockbroker, the Bitter Young Man, and the Beautiful Girl (1973)

Short stories

  • The Temptations of Don Volpi (1960)

Scripts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieland Freund : The highest of feelings , review, in: Literarian Welt , May 2, 2015, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1985