Dieter Waldmann

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Dieter Waldmann (born May 20, 1926 in Greifswald , † December 4, 1971 in Baden-Baden ) was a German playwright .

Life

The son of the animal disease researcher and university professor Otto Waldmann studied philosophy , German , Romance studies and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg between 1944 and 1949 after attending grammar school and was already in contact with the theater during his studies . He began as an actor, dramaturge and stage designer at the Greifswald Theater. In 1947 he fled to Argentina with his parents. After graduating, he worked as an actor , carpenter and assembly worker in South America , among others , where he also wrote his first one-act plays in Spanish .

After his return to Germany in 1958, he worked as a playwright and, in addition to plays, wrote radio and television plays and film scripts .

In 1958 the premieres of the one-act études in the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden and of The Blue Elephant , a play in three acts, took place on the Cologne City Theaters . In December 1960 Gustaf Gründgens directed the comedy From Bergamo to tomorrow morning at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg-St. George . The comedy in five pictures and an epilogue Atlantis , written in 1963, premiered in November 1963 at the Stuttgart State Theater , albeit without success. In 1965 he wrote the play Die Schwätzer . Some of his contemporary pieces were published by Chronos Verlag Martin Mörike . In 1968 Atlantis was staged again by Peter Klaus Steinmann .

Most recently, between 1967 and his death, he was production manager of the television game group of Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. He was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for The Completed Life of Alexander Dubronski in 1968 and the Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze for A Large Family in 1971. For the television two- parter Don't Turn Around - The Golem Goes Around , which aired in 1971, he wrote the script.

After his death, the crime scene episode Cherchez la femme or the ghosts of Mummelsee was broadcast on March 4, 1973 , for which he had also written the script.

Dieter Waldmann's son, the economist and manager Philipp Waldmann (* 1963), works as sales director at EurotaxSchwacke GmbH .

literature

  • On the history of acting since 1945. New beginnings and continuity , in: Reclams Schauspielführer. 19th edition 1993, p. 847

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.newfleet.de/news/artikel/lesen/2013/04/phillipp-waldmannn-ist-neuer-vertriebsdirektor-bei-schwacke-49843/
personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1971
Place of death Baden-Baden