Dieter Hildebrandt (Author)

Dieter Hildebrandt (born July 1, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German author.

Hildebrandt studied in Bonn, Munich, Berlin and in the USA and did her doctorate with Artur Kutscher . From 1961 to 1968 he wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and was an editor at Suhrkamp from 1969 to 1971 . Hildebrandt wrote mainly books on topics from literary studies and literary history ( Ödön von Horváth , Lessing ), on the history of the piano in the 19th (Pianoforte) and 20th centuries (piano, piano) and on the history of his hometown Berlin ( Die Menschen vom Kurfürstendamm , Berlin Encyclopedia ). In early 2005 Hildebrandt published a story of Beethoven's ninth symphony under the title The Ninth .

In 1980 Hildebrandt took over the direction and the script for the documentary The Yellow Star - The Persecution of Jews 1933–1945 , which was nominated for an Oscar in 1981 for “ Best Documentary ”.

Hildebrandt lives in the Spessart .

Works

• The actor Bernhard Rüthling and the Munich Court Theater: A contribution to Munich's theater history . Dissertation at the University of Munich July 25, 1957.
• The wall is not a limit. People in East Berlin. Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1964 DNB 452012759 .
• German mosaic. (with Siegfried Unseld ), 1972.
• Germany your Berliners. 1973.
• Horváth . (Biography of Ödön von Horváth with self-testimonies and picture documents, bibliography by Petra Seidel). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1975, ISBN 978-3-499-50231-6 (= Rowohlt's monographs , volume 231).
• Lessing. Biography, 1979.
• Christlob Mylius. A genius of annoyance. (Prussian heads 5). Berlin 1981.
• The people from Kurfürstendamm. Roman, 1982.
• Pianoforte or the novel of the piano in the 19th century. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-446-14181-2 ; as a paperback in 1988 from dtv, Munich, ISBN 3-423-10990-4 and also from Bärenreiter , Kassel, ISBN 3-7618-0928-X (a non-fiction book on the history of the piano in the 19th century); 2nd edition: Piano, piano! The novel of the piano in the 20th century . Hanser, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-446-19935-4 ; as paperback 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1614-6 (Bärenreiter) / ISBN 3-423-20583-0 (dtv)
• Saul, Paul, a double life. Hanser, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-446-14541-9 ; as paperback dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-12674-4 .
• Ödön from Horváth. With testimonials and photo documents. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-499-50231-3 . (= Rowohlt's Monographs , Volume 231)
• The ninth. Schiller, Beethoven and the story of a musical world success. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-446-20585-3 .
• The sun. Biography of our star. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23018-7 .
• Schiller's first heroine: The life of Christophine Reinwald , nee Schiller. Hanser Belletristik, August 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23332-4 .
• The Berlin Palace. Germany's empty center. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23768-1 .
• The art of writing kisses, a story of the love letter . Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24496-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Hildebrandt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieter Hildebrandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of the author on hanser-literaturverlage.de , accessed on January 31, 2012.