Alfred Reinhold Böttcher
Alfred Reinhold Böttcher (born March 27, 1903 in Prenzlau ; † August 21, 1972 near Pruchten ) was an East German writer , children's author and screenwriter .
life and work
Böttcher was the son of a postal assistant. After completing his commercial apprenticeship at a music publisher, he worked as a puppeteer . Böttcher studied medicine until 1933 and then worked as an advertising specialist until he was drafted into military service. His first major publication, Sprung ins Kattegatt , appeared in 1941. From 1946 he worked as a freelance narrator and film writer.
Böttcher wrote books for children and young people as well as short stories. After Hansgeorg Meyer he was a representative of the fictional line of the GDR youth literature. His book Behavior 4 describes a nine-year-old third grade student. He is considered untidy, undisciplined and cheeky, but he is intelligent and does a good job. With the help of his teacher and other adults, he gets more understanding as an outsider and the class becomes an "exemplary collective ".
Alfred Reinhold Böttcher died in August 1972 in an accident on the Baltic Sea .
Works (selection)
- Jump into the Kattegatt (story). Munich 1941.
- Man without a mask . Suhrkamp, Berlin 1948. Kupfergraben-Verlag, Berlin 1991.
- Maternal Passion (short story). In: a thousand grams . A German confession in thirty stories from 1949 . Rowohlt Verlag 1949. Revised and expanded new edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989. ISBN 3-499-12611-7 .
- The cop inspection. Comedy for amateur groups . Henschel and Son, Berlin 1949.
- Beach grass (narration). Halle on the Saale in 1960.
- The tower on the border . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1963.
- Are 4 . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1968. Russian: Povedenie dvojka . Detskaja Literatura, Moscow 1973.
- The monkey thing . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1971.
- Scripts
- The blue swords . Feature film, DEFA 1949.
- Robert Mayer - The doctor from Heilbronn . Docudrama, DEFA 1955.
literature
- Boettcher, Alfred Reinhold . In: Rüdiger Steinlein , Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer : Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990 . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006. ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 . Column 1003f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Reinhold Böttcher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfred Reinhold Böttcher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alfred Reinhold Böttcher at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Kramer: Non-fiction . In: Handbook for children's and youth literature . Stuttgart / Weimar 2006. Sp. 907.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böttcher, Alfred Reinhold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böttcher, Alfred R .; Boettcher, Alfred Reinhold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, children's book and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prenzlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1972 |
| Place of death | at Pruchten |