Ernst Keienburg

Ernst Keienburg (born January 1, 1893 in Zell , † December 23, 1970 in Kleinmachnow , GDR ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

Live and act

Keienburg initially worked as a writer and (before 1945 and after) novels with titles such as Ein Herz für Afrika, Dr. Heim - a folk doctor's novel of life, Storm over the tree tops, The Black Sphinx, Fire on the Mountains and Great Love with little ticks . To the twelve minutes short silhouette film The Stolen Heart of Lotte Reiniger delivered Keienburg 1934 submission before joining the midst of World War II to the movie as a screenwriter. Keienburg remained loyal to the industry through the end of the decade.

From Hamburg, where Ernst Keienburg wrote briefly for Rolf Meyer's Junge Film-Union after the war , Keienburg finally went to the GDR. Here he continued his writing activity, u. a. for the small youth series and the yellow series . His last work, where the gods live , written with his colleague Joachim Lindner . Johann Schadow's Path to Art only came out four years after his death. Keienburg has also worked sporadically for GDR television (e.g. buttonhole comedy , the adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant novella)

Filmography

• 1943: Fritze Bollmann wanted to fish
• 1943: A little summer tune
• 1945: I'll see you again
• 1948: Stadtmeier and Landmeier (short film)
• 1949: The young lady and the vagabond
• 1949: Thirteen under one hat
• 1965: buttonhole comedy

literature

• Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 807

Web links

• Ernst Keienburg on literaturport.de
• Ernst Keienburg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Keienburg at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Ernst Keienburg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Buttonhole comedy on GDR television