Benno Meyer-Wehlack

Benno Meyer-Wehlack (born January 17, 1928 in Stettin ; †  February 16, 2014 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German writer , radio play and screenwriter .

biography

Benno Meyer-Wehlack grew up in Kiel , on Hiddensee and in Berlin . After 1945 he studied drama at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin and Schlattenschammes with Victor de Kowa at the stands in Berlin. Meyer-Wehlack was promoted by and led friendship with Marcus Behmer since 1949. During this time, feature section short stories appeared in Berlin newspapers, including the Neue Zeitung . From 1959 to 1961 he was a television dramaturge at the SWF and from 1965 to 1967 at the SFB . The first works by German auteur filmmakers after 1945, by director Peter Lilienthal and cameraman Michael Ballhaus , were authored by Meyer-Wehlack. Between 1966 and 1967 he worked as a dramaturgy lecturer at the Berlin Film and Television Academy . Since the late 1960s he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. He was married to the German- Croatian writer Irena Vrkljan . She translated numerous texts from (Serbo) Croatian into German.

Works

Radio plays

• Chalk lines into the unknown , NDR, 1954.
• The border, NDR, 1955.
• The Golden Wheel , NDR, 1956.
• The start, SFB, 1957.
• The temptation , NDR, 1957.
• Nine months, NDR, 1968.
• Right now, NDR / SWF / SFB, 1971.
• Your Pauline Golisch, SDR / SR, 1974.
• The picture, SWF, 1976.
• In the name of His Holiness - Duck dich, Johannes, SDR, 1976.
• The sun of the alien sky, SDF / SFB, 1977.
• Jelka, SWF, 1977.
• The Book of Life, SDR, 1978.
• The Carob Tree, SWF, 1979.
• The surprise, SDR, 1980.
• The Woman in Blue, SDR, 1981.
• The Waldschenke, SDR, 1985.
• What I always wanted to say, SWF, 1986.
• Addressee Jana Cerna, SDR / NDR, 1987.
• And Pony Sings, SFB, 1990.
• The herb in the handkerchief, SDR, 1991.
• The Fleeing Child, SWF, 1995.
• The old man and the still life, SWR, 1999.
• As always, SWR, 2001.
• Sirovy's Dreams, WDR, 2004.

script

• The neighborhood children , 1960, directed by Peter Lilienthal . Camera: Michael Ballhaus .
• Piece by piece , television play, 1962, directed by Peter Lilienthal .
• Outskirts , 1963.
• Im Kreis, television play, 1970, director: Tom Toelle , sole actor: Heinz Bennent .
• I'm not a bird , television play, 1971.
• Herlemanns Traum , television play, 1972, directed by Tom Toelle .
• Artur, Peter and the Eskimo , 1973.
• Ulla or the flight into the black forests , television play, 1974, director: Herbert Vesely .
• The way south , 1975.
• Hans and Heinz Kirch , 1975, directed by Günter Gräwert .
• Regina , television play, 1976, director: Gedeon Kovács , actor: Werner Hinz .

Book publications

• The temptation . Two radio plays, Munich: Hanser, 1958.
• Modder crabs . Piece about a building, Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach , 1971.
• The sun of the alien sky , Stuttgart 1978.
• Your Pauline Golisch , Stuttgart 1978.
• The cinema child . Linocuts: Klaus Hohlfeld , Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1980.
• Pavement music . Stories in Berlin and elsewhere, linocuts: Klaus Hohlfeld, Munich 1982.
• Das Theaterkind , linocuts: Klaus Hohfeld, Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1984. ISBN 3-922510-25-6 .
• Zagrebacke bilježnice . Prose, Zagreb Hefte, 1988.
• Ernestine is leaving . Roman, Jung and Jung Verlag , 2003.
• Narrow, windy times . An exchange of letters (with Marcus Behmer ), etchings by Marcus Behmer and Horst Hussel , Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2006.
• Rhubarb grew behind the fence . Etchings by Horst Hussel , Berlin: Verlag Haucke & Schmechel , 2008.
• Schlattenschammes ... or Berlin by the sea . Post-war story. Ed .: Hannes Schwenger , Berlin: Das Arsenal, 2015.

Awards

• In 1957 he was awarded the renowned war blind radio play award.
• 1959 Schiller Prize , Stuttgart.
• 1997 Marcotino friendship award .

Meyer-Wehlack was a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

Web links

• Literature by and about Benno Meyer-Wehlack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Benno Meyer-Wehlack in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benno Meyer-Wehlack 1928 - 2014 . kiepenheuer-medien.de. February 17, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
2. ^ Benno Meyer-Wehlack. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 697, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .