Fred Andreas

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Fred Andreas (also under the pseudonym Walter Röhl ; born on February 3, 1898 in Halle (Saale) as Kurt Reinhold Alfred Andreas ; died in Munich in 1975 ) was a German entertainment writer , screenwriter and translator .

Life

After attending grammar school, Andreas studied at the University of Halle . He then worked from 1920 to 1925 as a dramaturge, director and journalist. His detective novel Die Flucht ins Dunkle , which appeared from 1927 as a serial in the Berliner Morgenpost under the pseudonym Walter Röhl , made him known to a wide audience and worked from then on as a freelance writer. With his numerous novels, which appeared in the series of the yellow Ullstein books in the following years, he became a successful author, was considered an entertaining writer of rank and was recognized as the author of psychologically sophisticated crime novels.

Ernst Weiß wrote about Andreas:

"This author [...] has such a brilliant style to everything else, knows how to add everything he wants to say, with a sloppy, but all the more virtuoso brushstroke, a wistful, masculine, honest and kind irony."

In addition to his novels, Andreas also wrote numerous scripts and worked temporarily as a translator after 1945, including translating Thornton Wilder's Our Town for the stage. Several of his books were made into films, for example the film The Yellow Flag was published in 1937 .

Works (selection)

  • (as Walter Röhl) Escape into the dark. Novel. Berlin 1927.
  • The scuff seal thing. Novel. Berlin 1928.
  • The big problem child. Novel. Berlin 1929.
  • Gregor Kaska trial. Novel. Berlin 1930.
  • Rastakoff between the lovers. Novel. Berlin 1930.
  • The man who wanted to live twice. Novel. Berlin 1932; Film adaptation 1950
  • The law of love. Novel. Oldenburg 1936; Filmed in 1949
  • The strange lover. Novel. Berlin 1938.
  • Poor, ugly, bad. Novel. Berlin 1943.
  • The perfect crime. Novel. Berlin 1944.
  • The witch. Novel. Munich 1952, filmed in 1954, see Die Hexe .
  • Deadly Carneval. Novel. Munich 1953.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register StA Halle, No. 440/1898
  2. ↑ Death register StA Munich, No. 711/1975
  3. ↑ In the Killy literature dictionary there is a false statement: † 1980 in Salzburg
  4. ↑ Review of The Great Problem Child 1929.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Killy Literature Lexicon . Vol. 1, Berlin 2008, p. 157.
  6. ↑ A small town. Theater department of the American High Commission, Bad Nauheim 1947.
personal data
SURNAME Andreas, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas, Alfred Kurt Reinhold (full name); Walter Röhl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entertainment writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Munich