Ernst Hagen (Author)

Ernst Hagen , actually Ernst Hackensöllner (born February 7, 1906 in Prague , † March 1, 1984 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author and actor .

Life

Hagen came to Vienna as a child. He was initially engaged as an actor on German-speaking stages. In 1931 he founded the cabaret “ABC” with Johann Sklenka in Vienna, but also wrote texts for “ Literatur am Naschmarkt ”. After the war, Hagen mainly worked as a cultural journalist and headed the relevant department in the world press and in the Bild-Telegraf ; He wrote novels, worked for Vienna Advertising, designed radio programs ("Vienna is always in season", "Life begins at 60") and, together with Michael Danzinger, invented the television program Seniorenclub (over 500 episodes) for ORF also presented himself for many years.

Works (selection)

• German for residents both as a screenwriter and moderating teacher in one of the most prominent educational programs of the ORF, 1957 - approx. 1962, repetition was in summer 2012 on the ORF cultural channel "ORF III" see also [1] was co-author of many episodes the cultural critic Hans Weigel .
• The brothers from the naked mountain. Novel. Vienna 1957.
• The little bird in the big cage. Novel.
• Hotel Sacher: Austria slept in your beds. Vienna 1976.
• Do men have to be like that?
• Senior club. Vienna 1972.
• with Walther Birkmayer: lizard principle and rose beetle complex. Bergisch Gladbach 1983.

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3: Ha-La. Vienna 2004, p. 22.
• Fritz Hausjell : Journalists Against Democracy or Fascism. A collective biographical analysis of the professional and political origins of Austrian daily newspaper journalists at the beginning of the Second Republic (1945–1947). Lang, Vienna 1989, especially p. 561.

Web links

• Ernst Hagen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Hagen in the Austria Lexicon
• On Ernst Hagen's 60th birthday