Georg A. Weth

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Georg A. Weth (* 1936 in Fürth ; † August 26, 2015 in Endingen ) was a German author .

Life

Weth completed an apprenticeship in his parents' carpentry and wood carving company. Then he trained as a commercial artist and designed advertising posters, including one of the first Quelle catalogs. With this pillar he earned the money to finance his acting studies with the Nuremberg actress Marianne Miersch. In 1959 Weth was the youngest theater director in the German-speaking area. The then head of the “Salzburg Mystery Games”, Ludwig Drexler , became aware of the “youthful lover” at the Nuremberg Municipal Theaters and handed over the management to Weth.

In 1963 the mayor of St. Blasien asked him to set up a summer theater in the spa town. It was the first and at the time the only one in Baden-Württemberg. The Kurtheater later became the German Chamber Drama , which is now based in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl .

At the age of 16, Weth wrote for the youth magazine "Liliput" and for various daily newspapers. In addition to Erich Kästner's “A good Santa Claus named Studienrat Koch”, he dramatized around thirty classic fairy tales, wrote radio plays, musicals, plays, and the like. a. the first sexual educational play for young people, “Barbara loves”, which was much discussed in the media and the church in 1971, and around thirty books. The books “Fairytale Dream of the Balearic Islands” and the volume of poetry “Like a shining mirror” were awarded the Premio de Literatura de Baleares . His different Rühmann biography "Heinz Rühmann - life recipes of an immortal optimist" was on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2002. Ick will wat Feinet , the first Marlene Dietrich cookbook, was published in 2001 on the 100th birthday of the diva by Aufbau Verlag Berlin and was discussed in the New York Times Magazine, among others.

Georg A. Weth worked and lived in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl. He thought of his adopted home in the form of the book “Kaiserstuhl - the coronation of a lifestyle”, published by Globe Book Verlag Endingen, and through the city adventure game “Tell who owns the beautiful city”, which he wrote and staged with around 120 citizens.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Georg A. Weth , badische-zeitung.de, accessed on September 16, 2015
  2. a b From carpenter to versatile theater man , badische-zeitung.de, accessed on March 16, 2017
  3. ^ Roger Cohen: Room Service New York Times Magazine, April 21, 2001, accessed March 16, 2017

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