Eckart Hachfeld

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Eckart Hachfeld (born October 9, 1910 in Mörchingen , Lorraine , † November 5, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer , copywriter and screenwriter .

life and work

Hachfeld was the son of the officer Willibald Hachfeld and his wife Anna, geb. Black Whales from Obliwitz (Pomerania) in Mörchingen (Lorraine). He attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim and studied law in Heidelberg (where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg ), Leipzig and Kiel.

After the legal traineeship (1934) and the doctorate to Dr. jur. (Marburg 1935) he worked as a trainee and advertising and advertising manager at the Julius Waldkirch publishing house and as a manager's secretary at Chemische Fabriken Knoll AG , both in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

After the Second World War , he settled as a freelance writer first in Hamburg, then in Berlin and later in Tutzing , before returning to Berlin in 1973. Hachfeld's works were mainly cabaret , u. a. he worked for the Bonbonnière in Hamburg, the porcupines in Berlin, the Mausefalle in Stuttgart and as an in-house author for the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen .

Since 1954 he published his own regular column in the world and later in Stern ( Amadeus goes through the country ). As a screenwriter, he wrote templates for films with Heinz Rühmann , Heinz Erhardt and Willy Millowitsch , and as a songwriter he was best known for his songs for Udo Jürgens .

Eckart Hachfeld's grave on the Bohemian Gottesacker Rixdorf

Hachfeld was married to Erika Levin from Erfurt. The eldest son Eckart (stage name Volker Ludwig ) is an important theater director and playwright ( Grips-Theater ), the second, Rainer Hachfeld , a caricaturist . The third son, Tilman Hachfeld, was an Evangelical Reformed theologian and a pastor in the French Church in Berlin (Huguenot parish) until his retirement. Eckart Hachfeld's artistic estate is in the archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. A star in the Cabaret Walk of Fame is dedicated to him.

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Scripts

Song lyrics

Songs for Udo Jürgens :

  • Dear Fatherland (1970)
  • Show me the place in the sun (1971)
  • Brother why don't you help me (1971)
  • You alone (1971)
  • What do you call the feeling (1972, with Walter Brandin )
  • Divorced (1974)
  • Aunt Emma (1976, with Wolfgang Spahr )
  • But please with cream (1976)
  • Don't You Ask Too Much (1976)
  • If you weren't you (1977)
  • Your Best Years (1977)
  • When the music started
  • On the road to oblivion
  • The circus must not die

Others

  • The Struwwelpeter newly coiffed . Scherz Verlag for Rütten + Loening, Munich / Bern / Vienna 1969 (together with his son Rainer Hachfeld )

literature

  • Florian Hoffmann: "But with cream, please!". The author and songwriter Eckart Hachfeld Rhenaniae Heidelberg was born 100 years ago . In: CORPS 4/2010

Web links

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