Axel Eggebrecht

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Axel Eggebrecht in 1988, portrait of the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold

Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht (born January 10, 1899 in Leipzig ; † July 14, 1991 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

April 12, 1949 at a meeting of the German PEN Center in Hamburg, third from the right

Axel Eggebrecht grew up in a middle-class environment and attended the Thomas School . In 1917 he volunteered to take part in the First World War and was seriously wounded. He suffered from the aftermath all his life. Undecided, he moved politically from right to left, initially belonged to nationalist associations after the war and was a member of the KPD from 1920 to 1925 . Eggebrecht stayed in Moscow twice in 1923/1924 , but returned to Berlin , disappointed by Bolshevism .

In 1925 he began working as a film dramaturge and assistant director at UFA , at Siegfried Jacobsohns Weltbühne and as a film critic for the Berliner Tageblatt . Eggebrecht also wrote as a freelance writer in the literary world . In Berlin he was one of the residents of the Berlin artists' colony . In 1933 Eggebrecht was imprisoned in the Hainewalde concentration camp for a few months . After his release, he made his way into the film industry as a screenwriter, assistant and critic under cover names.

Anonymous urn grove at the Riedemann mausoleum,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

After the end of the Second World War , British occupation officers Eggebrecht brought him to the broadcasting house of the former Reichsender Hamburg in June 1945 . Eggebrecht was one of the founders of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR), which was launched in September 1945, and was head of department there . As a journalist, Axel Eggebrecht was one of the pioneers of the radio feature . From 1963 to 1965 he reported on the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main . He wrote poems , novels , radio plays , films and essays .

Axel Eggebrecht founded the Nordwestdeutsche Hefte with Peter von Zahn in 1946 , of which he was co-editor until 1948. Eggebrecht became a member of the PEN Club Germany in 1965 and was its vice-president from 1972. In the last decades of his life, Eggebrecht continued to work as a journalist and gave time-critical lectures.

In 1982 he married the publicist Inge Stolten as the second wife , with whom he had lived since 1957. His estate is in the Hamburg State Archives .

Axel Eggebrecht was buried in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , grid square AD 10 ( anonymous urn grove in front of the Riedemann mausoleum across from Chapel 8).

Honors

Awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 1979, third from the left
  • 1976: Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg
  • 1979: Carl von Ossietzky Medal together with Fritz Eberhard
  • 1983: Gerrit Engelke Prize
  • 1989: Mayor Stolten Medal
  • 2009: By resolution of the Leipzig City Council, a street in the Mitte district, Zentrum-Südost district, was named Eggebrechtstraße .
  • 2011: By resolution of the Leipzig City Council, the original Eggebrechtstrasse was renamed Landsteinerstrasse. With the same resolution, another street in the same urban area now bears his name.

Plaque

Memorial plaque on the house at Bonner Strasse 12 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

The inscription on the memorial plaque at Bonner Strasse 12 in the Wilmersdorf artists' colony reads:

Lived here from 1931 to 1933
Axel Eggebrecht
10.1.1899-14.7.1991
writer and journalist
in the 20's staff of "world stage"
and the "Literary World"
because of its radical democratic commitment he was in 1933
imprisoned for several months in a concentration camp grove forest
in 1945 co-founded the Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunk in Hamburg,
commentator and radio play author for the NDR

Axel Eggebrecht Prize

In 2006 the Media Foundation of the Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig donated the Axel Eggebrecht Prize for radio features to the radio author's memory , which will be awarded every two years from 2008 onwards, alternating with the Günter Eich Prize for radio plays. Both prizes are endowed with 10,000 euros.

Works (selection)

  • Cats . Stuffer, Berlin 1927; from the author rev. New edition, Arche, Zurich 1967
  • World literature. An overview . Springer, Hamburg 1948
  • My world literature . Dietz, Bonn / Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-8012-0106-6
  • Half the way. Interim balance of an era . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-498-01612-1
  • It does not apply to worry. About the power of common sense . Goldmann, Munich 1969
  • People at the gun. Chronicle of a house in Berlin 1930–34 . JHW Dietz Nachf, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-8012-0047-7
  • As editor and co-author: The angry old men. Thoughts on Germany since 1945 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979, ISBN 3-499-15007-7

Filmography as a screenwriter

Radio plays

  • 1947: What if ... (With introductory lecture by the author) - Director: Ludwig Cremer ( NWDR Hamburg )
  • 1947: If we want (continuation of the radio play What would be if ... ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1947: The Ants - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1947: The year 1948 does not take place - Director: Erik Ode (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: Half the Way - Director: Karl Peter Biltz ( SWF )
  • 1950: One pays his debt - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: Someone pays his debt - Director: Theodor Steiner ( HR )
  • 1950: someone pays his debt - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm ( BR )
  • 1951: Someone pays his debt - Director: Karl Peter Biltz (SWF)
  • 1951: Europe - Dream or Reality - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1956: Stresemann - Director: Ludwig Berger ( SFB )
  • 1956: The Cardsharp - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1956: File 414: Wilhelm Voigt - Director: Kurt Reiss ( NDR )
  • 1958: The Nobel Prize - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (SWF)
  • 1960: Spiegel - Director: Otto Kurth (SWF)

literature

  • Alexander Gallus : home to the world stage. An intellectual story in the 20th century . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1117-6 .
  • Uwe Herms and Joachim Fuhrmann (eds.): Dear Axel Eggebrecht! Friends and colleagues on the occasion of Axel Eggebrecht's 90th birthday. Neue Presse, Hamburg 1989

Web links

Commons : Axel Eggebrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 31.
  2. ↑ Biography at Leipziger Medienstiftung
  3. ↑ Celebrity grave sites
  4. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Council meeting of May 18, 2011 (resolution no. RBV-822/11), official announcement: Leipzig Official Gazette no. 11 of June 4, 2011, in force since July 5, 2011 or August 5, 2011. See Leipzig Official Gazette No. 16 of September 10, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Eggebrecht, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggebrecht, Axel Constantin August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1991
Place of death Hamburg