Ernst Schnabel

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Ernst Georg Schnabel (born September 26, 1913 in Zittau ; † January 25, 1986 in West Berlin ) was a German writer and pioneer of radio features .

Life

Ernst Schnabel was the son of a businessman. He attended the Princely School of St. Afra in Meissen , which he left early in 1930. From 1931 to 1939 he traveled the world as a seaman, sometimes on sailing ships. After he started writing in 1936, he worked as a dramaturge at the Zittau Theater in 1937/38 . During the Second World War , he commanded an escort boat as an officer in the Navy . Towards the end of the war, together with Helmut Käutner , he wrote the script for his film In those days .

From 1946 to 1949 Schnabel was chief dramaturge and later head of the word department at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) in Hamburg . 1949/50 he worked for the BBC in London ; from 1951 to 1955 he was director of the Hamburg radio station of the NWDR. During this time he and - through Schnabel - the NWDR were important supporters of Group 47 , especially at their 10th meeting in May 1952 in Niendorf .

This was followed by a time as a freelance writer . Noteworthy is his book Anne Frank . Trace of a Child , published in 1958 and translated into Icelandic, among other things. In 1957 he met more than 40 people who had come into contact with Anne Frank in a wide variety of ways, and reported on their memories of the girl - from her earliest childhood to companions in the concentration camps.

From 1962 to 1965 he was an employee of the third program of NDR and SFB ; from 1965 he headed the literary illustrated magazine at SFB television. In 1970 his time at radio ended after a falling out with the director of the SFB. Ernst Schnabel lived as a freelance writer in West Berlin until his death on January 25, 1986 .

Ernst Schnabel's early works were novels and stories from the world of seafaring. He worked on the libretto for Hans Werner Henze's staged oratorio Das Floß der Medusa , which was to be premiered in Hamburg in 1968, but failed due to scandal and demonstrations. In the fifties he switched to the processing of antique fabrics, travel reports and narrative works about aviation. His stylistic role models were Joseph Conrad , Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe . Ernst Schnabel played an important role as a pioneer of radio features and post-war radio play in German-speaking countries.

Ernst Schnabel was a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , whose poetry section he headed from 1963, the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg, and from 1954 to 1958 the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Awards and honors

Fonts

As an author

  • The trip to Savannah , Hamburg 1939.
  • Nachtwind , H. Goverts Verlag, Hamburg 1942.
  • Ships and Stars , Hamburg 1943.
  • In those days , Flensburg [u. a.] 1947 (together with Helmut Käutner ).
  • Thomas Wolfe , Hamburg 1947.
  • You don't see the marble , Hamburg 1949.
  • Interview with a star , Hamburg 1951.
  • Big fanfare , Hamburg 1952.
  • A day like tomorrow , Frankfurt 1952.
  • The earth has many names , Hamburg 1955.
  • The sixth song , Frankfurt am Main 1956.
  • Anne Frank. Trace of a Child , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1958.
  • Me and the Kings , Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Strangers without souvenirs , Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • The raft of the Medusa , Munich 1969 (premiere 1968).
  • Herme for Hanns Hartmann , Cologne 1972.
  • The news from society. Hurricane or difficulties with fiction , Berlin 1972.
  • At the height of the brass city , Zurich [u. a.] 1979.
  • Flood

items

  • Japan's super express: the bullet. In: Geo-Magazin , year 1980, issue 3, pp. 102-114 (informative experience report).

As translator

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wagner : An unheard-of, hymn-like tone. When broadcasting takes its mission seriously, treasures are sometimes created. Rediscovered sound recordings show how Paul Celan sounded before Group 47 in 1952. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 3, 2017, p. 13.

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personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnabel, Ernst Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1986
Place of death West Berlin