Fred Hildenbrandt

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Fred (Alfred) Hildenbrandt (pseudonym Hermann Thimmermann ; born April 27, 1892 in Stuttgart , † March 4, 1963 in Koblenz ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Initially an elementary school teacher, he took part in the First World War, was wounded in Langemarck in 1914 , and began his career as a feature editor for the Frankfurter Nachrichten . It was developed by Theodor Wolff for Berliner Tageblatt brought and was there from 1922 to 1932 head of literature . At the time he was a widely recognized critic, known for his ironic writing style, signed with the abbreviation Hi .

In his posthumously published book … I should greet you from Berlin , he describes the scene of celebrities and artists living in Berlin's Westend on Sachsenplatz (today's Brixplatz ) ( Veit Harlan , Paul Hindemith , Hilde Körber , Joachim Ringelnatz , Max Schmeling , Henny Porten ) during the Weimar Republic.

From 1933 he wrote heroic "experience reports " from the First World War, wrote for the Wehrmacht and possibly also for the NSDAP party press.

In addition to numerous books, Hildenbrandt also wrote a number of scripts from the 1920s to 1940s, such as the 1938 film Pour le Mérite . He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Company Michael .

After the Second World War he lived in Frankfurt am Main. "He died impoverished and forgotten."

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Books

  • Letters to a dancer . Stuttgart 1922
  • Judas Iscarioth , 1924
  • Day sheets . Berlin 1925
  • Hochstapler , R. Mosse, Berlin 1926
  • Little chronicle . Potsdam 1926
  • The dancer Valeska Gert . Stuttgart, Hädecke, 1928
  • Children , Stuffer, Berlin 1928
  • Bellarmine walks in the maze. Berlin, German Book Community, 1929
  • Annee et al. their athletes , novel, 1929
  • The sand runs wrong in the hourglass. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1930
  • Contemporary dancers (= Schaubücher 18). 65 pictures explained by Fred Hildenbrandt. Orell Füssli , Zurich 1931.
  • Gwendolin throws himself into life , Roman, Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft, Berlin 1931
  • Shot in Braunau - the tragic fate of the knightly publisher Johann Philipp Palm from Nuremberg , Munich, Knorr & Hirth, 1933
  • Fritz Freemann becomes a reporter. Edited with Introduction and Vocubulary by Dora Kreykenbohm Willner. New York: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1937, 194 pages [youth book with scene Berlin. In German with German-English vocabulary]
  • Olympus. Victories , 1935
  • To the gentlemen Europeans !, Japan works u. smiles , Franckh, Stuttgart 1936
  • Verdun! Souville !, a factual report .... , Knorr and Hirth, Munich 1937
  • Nobile , Verlag der Sternbücher, 1955 (about the flight to the North Pole by Roald Amundsen , Umberto Nobile and Lincoln Ellsworth )
  • ... I should greet you from Berlin. 1922-1932. Berlin memories entirely unpolitical , Ehrenwirth, 1966

pseudonym

  • Hermann Thimmermann: The storm on Langemarck , 1933

Scripts

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wilhelm E. Süskind:  Hildenbrandt, Fred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 133 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The source for this (Süskind / NDB) speaks of a rumor and cites a counter-argument. So far only the error of Alfred Kerr , who assumed that (the real person) Wilfrid Bade was a pseudonym of Hildenbrandt, was known.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h German biography: Hildenbrandt, Fred - German biography .
  4. ↑ DNB 574769331
  5. ↑ DNB 580185567
  6. ↑ DNB 577785680
  7. ↑ DNB 574769307
  8. ↑ DNB 574769242
  9. ↑ DNB 574769439
personal data
SURNAME Hildenbrandt, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildenbrandt, Alfred (full name); Thimmermann, Hermann (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1963
Place of death Koblenz