Benito Wogatzki

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Benito Wogatzki (born August 31, 1932 in Berlin ; † July 25, 2016 in southern France ) was a narrator and radio and television author.

Life

Benito Wogatzki was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1932 . His father was a salesman and his mother a cleaner . Born into the time of National Socialism , his childhood was marked by threats and war; his Jewish father left Germany, his mother had to protect the three children alone.

After a draper's apprentice in Luckenwalde and graduating from the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty in Potsdam studied Wogatzki in Leipzig journalism and then worked as a reporter and journalist for several newspapers, including in the student newspaper Forum . 1963/64 Wogatzki was registered as IM "Bodo" ​​of the MfS.

Wogatzki lived in the south of France for the past decade and a half. There he died after a short illness in July 2016 at the age of 83.

Act

Wogatzki first became known to a wide audience as a radio and above all as a television writer: He made several award-winning television films such as Meine Beste Freunde (multi-part, with Wolf Kaiser in the leading role), Broddi , Anlauf (director: Egon Günther ) and Mit Tieremachen People also one of the first German television series. In the 1990s he worked as a co-series writer for ZDF (among others for Mordslust ), Sat.1 ( For all cases Stefanie ) and RTL .

After three volumes of short stories that have already been broadcast on radio and television, Wogatzki presented his first novel Romance with Amélie . In it he describes an unusual childhood love immediately after the war in a village in Brandenburg and has now made a name for himself as a narrator in East and West Germany. This is how Sabine Brandt judged: “The 'Romance with Amélie' is a cheerful book, despite the difficult, fear-laden times in which the story takes place. This has to do with Wogatzki's talent for detail painting, for an extremely precise grasp of the traits that one has to describe in order to make a person recognizable, to make him stand out from the crowd. "

This was followed by other novels such as the picaresque novel Narrenfell and the children's books The Naughty Father and A Golden Tail on the Horizon by Thumbach .

After 1990, Wogatzki co-wrote television series for various broadcasters and published two more novels in the last decade of his life.

Wogatzki was, among other things, a full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR , section literature and language maintenance, from 1969 to 1991 . For his literary work he was awarded the Lessing Prize in 1967 and the National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and literature in 1982.

Quotes

“The best thing about life is remorse. You stay a decent guy, but you don't miss anything. "

Awards

Memberships

bibliography

prose

Novels

  • Romance with Amélie . Novel. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1977; New edition: Claassen, Düsseldorf 1977
  • Fool skin . Novel. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982; New edition: Maro Verlag, Augsburg 1986
  • Swallow hunting . Novel. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1985
  • Flee with the lion . Novel. The New Berlin, Berlin 2007
  • Fleur . Novel. Shaker-Media, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-95631-139-0
  • Flee with the lion . Roman, edited new edition. Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95631-221-2

Children's and young people's literature

  • The naughty father . Children's book. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980; New edition: Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • A golden trail on the horizon of Thumbach . Youth book. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1987; New edition under the title SATTI , Hoch, Stuttgart 1989

drama

Film and radio play templates

  • The patience of the bold. Book edition with scripts incl. To Zeit ist Glück u. The signs of the first . Afterword by Käthe Rülicke-Weiler. Henschel, Berlin 1969
  • The girl's price . Short stories. Book edition including the blacksmith and his wife , Christine , One day and one night . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1971 (5th edition, 1979); New edition under the title: cement and carbuncle. Damnitz, Munich 1975.
  • Broddy . Henschelverlag Kunst u. Society, Berlin 1976
Radio plays
  • A day and a night with Erik S. Klein, 1965
  • Schober's craziest thought with Jürgen Frohriep , 1970
Film adaptations
  • One day and one night , television 1966
  • My best friends , multi-part television series, television of the GDR 1966–1967
A visit from afar , 1966
The Patience of the Bold , 1966
The Signs of the First , 1967
  • Time is happiness , 1968
  • The Signs of the First , 1969, directed by Lothar Bellag
  • Anlauf , DFF 1971, (broadcast again in 1976 under the title Rita )
  • Broddy , GDR television, 1975
  • Romance with Amélie , feature film, DEFA, 1981 (R .: Ulrich Thein )
  • Tull , DDR TV, 1983 (with Ulrich Thein in the leading role)
  • Animals make people , series in 13 parts, GDR television, 1988

Scriptwriter

literature

  • Ernst-Günter Kautz: Points of view for the interpretation of television dramatic contributions. Shown using the example of the film: “Time is happiness” by Benito Wogatzki in Dt. Television broadcasting . Urania, Art and Literature Section, Berlin 1969
  • Knut Hickethier : dealing with the present. TV drama in the sixties . In: Ulrich Profitlich (Ed.): Dramatics of the GDR . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Joachim Walther, Gesine von Prittwitz: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1996
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Wogatzki, Benito . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Gottfried Fischborn : Benito Wogatzki . In: Literature of the German Democratic Republic. Individual representations, volume 1. People and knowledge: Berlin 1974, license no. 203.1000/73, LSV 8012
  • Jürgen Fuchs : Landscapes of Lies. Der Spiegel 50/1991, December 9, 1991, pp. 103–121 , accessed on September 12, 2016 (Jürgen Fuchs about writers in the Stasi network).

Web links

Commons : Benito Wogatzki  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Benito Wogatzki  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benito Wogatzki is dead . Sächsische Zeitung , July 28, 2016, accessed on July 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Brief CV in Bernd-Rainer Barth : Wogatzki, Benito . In: Who was who in the GDR?
  3. ^ Sabine Brandt: Wogatzki, Benito: Romance with Amélie . Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 21, 1977, from the joint library network , accessed on September 12, 2016 (pdf; 9 kB).
  4. ↑ Benito Wogatzki: The fool's fur . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982, p. 113.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Awards and Memberships listed in Bernd-Rainer Barth: Wogatzki, Benito . In: Who was who in the GDR?
personal data
SURNAME Wogatzki, Benito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German narrator and radio and television author
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2016
Place of death South France