Dietrich Wolff

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Dietrich Rudolf Paul Bernhard Wolff (born May 17, 1923 in Landsberg an der Warthe ; † August 27, 1997 in Humble on Langeland , Denmark ), better known under the pseudonym Matthias Riehl , another pseudonym Michael Muriel , was a German journalist and writer .

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After the Second World War , Wolff embarked on a career as a journalist and in 1946/1947 also took over the first chairmanship of the Association of German Writers in Frankfurt am Main from Eberhard Beckmann , who was appointed head of "Radio Frankfurt" again in 1945 had to lay down.

As a culture journalist, Wolff, who briefly worked as a novelist under the pseudonym Michael Muriel ( Suzanne , 1950; Suzanne from Paris , 1956), soon attracted attention in major German daily newspapers. He wrote regularly as "MR" in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and under the pseudonym "Matthias Riehl", which he mainly used from then on, for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin.

Although the cultural reporter Wolff was also active in the areas of literary and theater criticism, his contributions as a television critic received special attention. In the Tagesspiegel he was last solely responsible for television criticism in the 1950s and even received a daily section on June 12, 1959. The publisher's own Argon Verlag had already given the journalist the opportunity, due to the popularity of his work on television, to publish general critical thoughts on German and American television under the title The world shows her face (1957) in the form of a book.

In addition, published Wolff, who had meanwhile settled in Berlin, at Schropp the Guide Berlin always a cosmopolitan city (1955) and a non-fiction book about Big love for orchids in Falken-Verlag , which at André German also appeared in English (1958/1960) .

At the end of the 1960s, Wolff, who had been employed by Tagesspiegel until then, increasingly shifted to radio play work for various broadcasters of public service broadcasting. By the mid-1980s, around a hundred radio plays were produced - often on socially relevant topics, primarily for children's radio , but also three radio thrillers , some of which were prominent, such as Veteranen (1976) with Hellmut Lange as Inspector Williams.

In 1977 Wolff made his debut with Die Zauberküche as a book author for children at Erika Klopp Verlag . Further titles in various publishers followed every year. Da lachen die Hühner (1980), also published by Klopp, has also been translated into Dutch and French . With Inspector Kirsten (1984–1986), Wolff also presented a ten-part youth crime series, which was published by Arena-Verlag , in addition to numerous other individual titles .

Concerning his radio play work, Wolff switched to the commercial sector again at the age of sixty and crowned his career with the conception and 39 episodes of the children's radio play series Flitze Feuerzahn , which appeared between 1984 and 1987, partly in media combinations with books, by the successful radio play label Europa . Flitze Feuerzahn became one of the most popular radio play series for children in the Federal Republic of Germany and brought with it some merchandising products such as soft toys, books, notebooks and video cassettes. Wolff was awarded a gold record .

The former passionate critic of German television, Dietrich Wolff, died in 1997 at the age of 74 in his long-term second home, Humble, on the Danish island of Langeland, just under a year before an animation of his radio play series Flitze Feuerzahn was first broadcast on German television.

Radio plays under the pseudonym Matthias Riehl (selection)

Quotes

  • “A considerable part of the television programs is created like this: A little head has an idea. The program is sat on, and it turns out, to everyone's satisfaction, that there is some sort of illustration of the matter. Or the way is the other way around: there is a pile of old film strips somewhere and you are looking for the ideal. The result is the same in any case: cramp! "

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  1. ^ Bertold Hack, Reinhard Wittmann, Marietta Kleiss: Archive for the history of the book industry , Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 1977, p. 407
  2. ↑ Knut Hickethier: History of TV Criticism in Germany , Edition Sigma 1994, p. 76
  3. ↑ Knut Hickethier: History of TV Criticism in Germany , Edition Sigma 1994, p. 77
  4. ↑ http://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?dukey=4919191&vi=3&SID
  5. ↑ https://hoerspielforscher.de/kartei/person?detail=4043
  6. ^ Andreas Klimt: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar Nekrolog 1971-1998 , Saur 1999, p. 496
  7. ↑ quoted from Knut Hickethier: History of TV Criticism in Germany , Edition Sigma 1994, p. 77
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Dietrich Rudolf Paul Bernhard (full name); Riehl, Matthias (pseudonym); Muriel, Michael (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1997
Place of death Humble on Langeland , Denmark