Felix Lützkendorf

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Felix Lützkendorf (born February 2, 1906 in Leipzig- Lindenau, † November 19, 1990 in Munich ) was a German writer and screenwriter. He was already active in the 1930s, had a role in shaping German film history in the 1950s and 1960s, and was also a member of Bamberg's circle of poets .

Life

The son of the chemist Paul Lützkendorf and his wife Martha Luise, née Thiel, was a student at the Naumburg cadet institute and at the teachers' college in Leipzig. Lützkendorf studied German, history and philosophy in Leipzig and Vienna and graduated with a doctorate in 1931 as a Dr. phil. the course. He also worked as an academic physical education teacher. In 1932 he received his doctorate with the work Hermann Hesse as a religious person in his relationships to Romanticism and the East .

In 1933 Lützkendorf became a feature editor for the Neue Leipziger Zeitung and in 1934 an editor for the Berliner Nachtausgabe , where he stayed until 1936.

From 1934 he worked as a dramaturge at the Volksbühne Berlin . During this time he wrote several radio plays and stage plays, including the anti-Polish play Grenz (1933) and the historicizing drama Alpenzug (1936). Since 1937 he worked as a screenwriter for UFA . Lützkendorf was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,957,721) and the SS (membership number 405,883). The award of the War Merit Cross Second Class on September 1, 1942 was justified with “substantial contribution to the new, politically oriented film” .

From 1943 to 1945 he worked as a war correspondent for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . In April 1943 he belonged to a group of writers and journalists who were brought to the exposed mass graves in the forest of Katyn on behalf of the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels . The same delegation included the Finnish writer Örnulf Tigerstedt , the three Belgians Ferdinand Vercknocke , Filip de Pillecijn and Pierre Hubermont , the Spaniard Ernesto Giménez Caballero and the Czech František Kožík . After his return Lützkendorf published a report on Katyn in the weekly newspaper Das Reich .

After the end of the war, Lützkendorf's writings were published in the Soviet occupation zone Kadetten des Große König (1939), Söhne des Krieg (1942), Völkerwanderung (1940) and Märzwind (1942) as well as in the GDR Rebirth (1943) and The Zeppelin Spy of York (1935 ) is placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

Since 1950 he lived in Munich. As a former SS member, he was only able to publish works under his own name again after 1950, including several novels and plays. Among other things, he wrote the script for one of the first FRG homosexual films , based on an idea by the author Robert Pilchowski . Unlike you and me - § 175 was the title of the film, which was released in 1957 (in Austria: The Third Sex ). Standing under the direction of Veit Harlan , he solved scandals and hostility v. a. against the director. Many of Lützkendorf's works (often created in collaboration with other authors) resulted in films directed by Harlan.

In 1984 his play JDINKA received the Dramatist Prize of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Felix Lützkendorf had been married to Karin Mina Lützkendorf, née Klingenspor, since 1935. His daughter Petra was born in 1935.

His grave is on the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (Urn wall I, U 10).

Filmography

source

  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon. Volume 10, column 93. A. Francke AG Verlag, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-317-01539-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 381.
  2. ^ The Katyn Forest Massacre US Government Printing Office. Washington 1952, vol. IV, 504, p. 1332.
  3. ↑ Second group of foreign journalists visits Katyn Krystyna Piórkowska, The English-speaking witnesses to Katyn , April 19, 2013 (Lützkendorf's first name is incorrectly given here as "Filip".)
  4. ^ Felix Lützkendorf, The grove of Katyn. The report of the kulak Kosilew, in: Das Reich , May 2, 1943, p. 3.
  5. ↑ polunbi.de (1946) , polunbi.de (1948) and polunbi.de (1953)

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personal data
SURNAME Lützkendorf, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1990
Place of death Munich