Fred Denger

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Fred Denger (1946)

Fred Denger , actually Alfred Denger , (born June 12, 1920 in Darmstadt , † October 30, 1983 in Hohegeiß ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Denger was initially an actor and cabaret artist. During the Second World War , Fred Denger was a member of the Uncle Emil resistance group .

After the war he became a writer. Denger first drew attention to himself with the play We call you hope , a typical rubble literature . The play was premiered by Gustav von Wangenheim in 1946 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

His play Langusten (1957) - a one-person play - is considered a classic of popular theater; famous actresses like Tilla Durieux or Annie Rosar were to be seen in it. Dialect adaptations by other authors followed.

Denger wrote 13 novels, including Cloth in Strangers' Beds (1950) and The God Damned Year (1951) as well as numerous short stories, travel reports and court reports, most of which he published under a pseudonym. The 1982 book The Big Boss , Denger's free adaptation of the Old Testament of the Bible, was particularly successful . He did not live to see the book's success because he died in 1983 after an accident.

Denger wrote numerous scripts for successful German cinema productions , such as some German Karl May and Edgar Wallace films . In addition to his writing activities, the Berlin author was active in various phases of his life as a zoo keeper , banter , circus acrobat and theater director . In the 1970s, Denger moved to the Lüchow-Dannenberg district and was involved in the Lüchow-Dannenberg environmental protection initiative against the nuclear waste facilities in Gorleben and Dragahn .

About his personal life, it is worth noting that Fred Denger was married twelve times. In a friend's Harz hotel, where he stayed after the Frankfurt Book Fair to write to Der Juniorchef , his version of the Gospel , Denger fell drunk down a flight of stairs on October 30, 1983 and was fatally injured.

Filmography

Works

  • 1946: We bid you hope: A radio play about today's youth. A radio play for Süddeutscher Rundfunk .
  • 1946: Hunger ?: Hunger! Tragedy in 3 acts.
  • 1946: The plague. Play in 3 acts.
  • 1948: bikini.
  • 1949: The prison pastor of Tegel: A helper for all those persecuted.
  • 1950: Cloth in strange beds.
  • 1951: The goddamn vintage: novel of a disinherited youth.
  • 1952: Flying a kite against the wind: play in 5 acts.
  • 1955: Ultimo.
  • 1955: Lobsters. Acting for one person.
  • 1963: Cabal 62: The great fateful novel of the present.
  • 1975: The great boss or the secret script of the full beards: the Old Testament is cheeky, pious and very freely deciphered.
  • 1982: Twelve marriages are no easy feat.
  • 1982: The comet or an enchanting end of the world: comedy in 3 acts.
  • 1982: The house or no demolition under this number: a drama in 5 acts.
  • 1982: Whose heart is full ...: Verses to sing and read.

Web links

Commons : Fred Denger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weisse Rose Foundation e. V. (Homepage): The rescue network for the exhibition Onkel Emil ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 2, 1983, obituary for Fred Denger; Der Spiegel: Lüsterne Blick, No. 39 of September 24, 1984, pp. 224–227
  3. ↑ Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung , obituary for Fred Denger, November 30, 1983.
  4. ↑ Gisela Crémer, Denger's last companion, In: Hannelore Hippe: "Be the lantern yourself" - The dazzling, consistent life and work of the resistance artist Fred Denger . Radio feature , SWR 2014 (online: recording of the broadcast from April 23, 2017 on Deutschlandfunk ( memento from April 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Min. 43–46 ( MP3 , approx. 44.3 MB), manuscript of the broadcast . P. 38–39 ( PDF , approx. 531 kB)), accessed on April 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Denger, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denger, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1983
Place of death Hohegeiß