Eduard Rhein

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Rhine birthplace in Koenigswinter
Plaque on the birthplace

Eduard Rudolph Rhein (born August 23, 1900 in Königswinter ; † April 15, 1993 in Cannes ) was a German inventor , publicist and writer , violin virtuoso and journalist. He also published under the pseudonyms Hans-Ulrich Horster , Klaus Hellmer , Klaus Hellborn (source: Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung), Adrian Hülsen and Claude Borell .

life and work

Eduard Rhein spent his school days in Beuel , where his family lived from 1905 to 1917. Since he had familiarized himself with the research area of airships , he no longer had to go to the front during World War I , but was instead employed in looking after the airships. Rhein studied electrical engineering at the Mittweida technical center from 1920 to 1923 .

First employment

A first job at Ziegenberg AG for small electrical lighting in Berlin ended in 1923 when the company went bankrupt. After Rhein earned his money as an entertainment musician with the violin in hotel bars, he became an employee of the Central Association of the German Electrotechnical Industry (or electrical industry) . During this time he published his first specialist books and essays on the subject of broadcasting. In 1929 he changed to Ullstein-Verlag as editor and was in charge of the new radio magazine Sieben Tage .

Artistic contacts and activities in Berlin

In 1932 Eduard Rhein moved into the former house of the director Fritz Lang after his friend Richard Tauber, who lived there, emigrated. In 1941 Rhein wrote the operetta Traumland, which premiered in 1941, with his composer friend Eduard Künneke . Rhein wrote the libretto and the lyrics.

Second World War: Development of radars

During the Second World War , Eduard Rhein was commissioned to write operating instructions for radio equipment that lay people could understand. This work led to the fact that he was commissioned to develop a new radar device. The FK 1 was also completed at the end of 1944, but no longer in production.

Editor-in-chief of the program guide “Hörzu” 1946–1964

After the war, Eduard Rhein was editor-in-chief of the program guide Hör Zu! From its founding in 1946 until 1964 . . He advocated the rectangular 4: 3 screen format of televisions, which prevailed over the alternative square format. Eduard Rhein invented the word “ surreptitious advertising ” and propagated the much-loved Mecki , who is still the editorial mascot of Hörzu (spelling since 1972). Eduard Rhein also developed the “Original and Forgery” section in Hörzu . Eduard Rhein made a significant contribution to Hamburg's rise to become a media metropolis. He created the financial foundation of the Axel Springer Verlag through the unprecedented success of the magazine Hör Zu! whose circulation was already one million copies per week in 1950. In 1964 there were 4.5 million copies a week. Listen! became the most successful TV guide in Europe. Eduard Rhein also created the Kristall magazine , which was headed by Ivar Lissner as editor-in-chief. He was also involved in the development of the Bild newspaper . In 1964, Rhein involuntarily left the Axel Springer publishing house.

Filler font method

In addition to a large number of publications and books, Eduard Rhein developed the filler writing method for recording records .

Eduard Rhein Foundation, 1976

Eduard Rhein (left) hands over the certificate of the Eduard Rhein Prize he donated to Manfred Börner in 1990

In 1976 he founded the largest European foundation for information technology, the Eduard Rhein Foundation , which awards the Eduard Rhein Prize every year.

Homoerotic writings

Between 1978 and 1982, Rhein published several volumes of homoerotic novels under the pseudonym "Claude Borell".

In 1988 the actress Ruth Niehaus shot the film portrait A King in his kingdom together with the director Horst Königstein .

Honors

Eduard Rhein has been an honorary citizen of the city of Königswinter since 1990 . The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg honored Eduard Rhein for his services to Hamburg with a street name, the Eduard-Rhein-Ufer on the Outer Alster , not far from his former property, Schöne Aussicht 28. He is also immortalized on the large donor board in Hamburg's town hall ; In 1990 he received the Medal for Art and Science from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The Senate of the City of Berlin awarded him the honorary title of Professor hc Eduard Rhein, received the Great Cross of Merit in 1958 and the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985 .

Works (selection)

  • 1927: Standardization in radio.
  • 1928: The mechanical brain.
  • 1935: Miracle of the waves.
  • 1938: The hunt for the voice.
  • 1940: You and the electricity.
  • 1950: a heart plays wrong. (*); Filming in 1953
  • 1951: The Isle of the Dead.
  • 1951: Island of no return. Both under the pseudonym "Hans-Ulrich Horster". (*)
  • 1952: The Red Rush. Under the pseudonym "Hans-Ulrich Horster" (*); Filming in 1962
  • 1953: The angel with the flaming sword. (*); Filming in 1954
  • 1954: Like a storm wind.
  • 1954: Miracle of the waves: radio a. Television, shown f. jedermann , issue 69. – 80. Th., German publ. D. Ullstein AG, Berlin-Tempelhof 1954. DNB , (*)
  • 1955: Suchkind 312. Under the pseudonym "Hans-Ulrich Horster"; First filming 1955 , remake 2007 in the ARD
  • 1956: Lost Dreams.
  • 1957: heart without mercy. (*); Filming in 1958
  • 1958: Robinson sleeps 50 years.
  • 1958: A moment of eternity.
  • 1959: A student passed by . Under the pseudonym "Hans-Ulrich Horster" (*)
  • 1960: a woman pronounced dead.
  • 1960: Homecoming in the shade.
  • 1961: Aurora Marriage Institute. (*)
  • 1964: Carousel of love.
  • 1981: A son in his own image.
  • 1981: Clone child Uli.
  • 1985: House of Hope.
  • 1986: Letters from Beyond.
  • 1987: 100 years of the record.
  • 1990: A man of the century. (Autobiography), first edition as The Man of the Century.

(* = filmed) Some of the works were published under different pseudonyms.

literature

  • Erik Lindner:  Rhein, Eduard Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 486 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world. University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida 2014, p. 92 f.
  • Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male sexuality in the German-speaking area. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, p. 975ff.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Rhein  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Rhein . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1993 ( online ).
  2. ↑ mr3er.de
  3. ↑ The Man of the Century . In: Berliner Zeitung , 23 August 2000.
  4. ↑ a b c Elmar Scheuren: From the life of a jack of all trades. In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 2008. Edition Blattwelt, Niederhofen 2007, ISBN 3-936256-29-2 .
  5. ↑ eduard-rhein-stiftung.de ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rhein, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhein, Eduard Rudolph (full name); Horster, Hans-Ulrich (pseudonym); Hellmer, Klaus (pseudonym); Hülsen, Adrian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor, publicist and writer, violin virtuoso and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1993
Place of death Cannes