Hans Abich

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Hans Karl Heinrich Abich (born August 4, 1918 in Steinölsa ; † July 17, 2003 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German film producer , artistic director , radio journalist and program director of ARD .

biography

Abich was born the son of a land manager in Lower Silesia . At the age of eleven, he developed polio with lifelong consequences. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Koenigsberg in the Neumark , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1937 . He then began studying law at the University of Berlin as well as politics and foreign studies at the University of Politics . In 1943 he passed the first state examination in law, in 1944 he worked as a trainee lawyer at the court in Salzburg.

After the war Abich turned to the film industry. In 1945 he wrote a memorandum on setting up a new film production facility. In September 1946, Abich and his college friend Rolf Thiele founded Film Aufbau GmbH Göttingen . Thiele turned to directing and Abich turned out to be an ambitious producer who put his main focus on the adaptation of substantial works of German literature. He produced more than 30 feature films , including Outside Front Door under the name Liebe 47 (based on Wolfgang Borchert , 1949), Night Watch directed by Harald Braun (1949), Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull (1957), We Wunderkinder in der Directed by Kurt Hoffmann (1958) , Buddenbrooks (1959) and Royal Highness (1953, based on Thomas Mann ).

In the 1960s and 1970s he gained considerable influence on the development of German television. 1960 Abich went as a consultant to Radio Bremen , in 1961 he became Program Director, Deputy Director in 1962 and in 1968 director .

From 1973 to 1978 he was program director of the First German Television. Here he designed the program structure that is still valid today and included the daily topics in the program.

After the end of his television commitments, he worked as a freelance writer, presenter and lecturer. As a leading member of the EKD , he referred in numerous lectures, publications and comments to the responsibility that the churches have in the media age. 1979 and since 1982 he was a member of the film committee of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Abich was instrumental in founding the Baden-Baden Days of Television Drama (today: Baden-Baden Television Film Festival ). In his honor, the Hans Abich Prize has been awarded annually since 2004 for special merits in the field of television film.

From about 1993 he lived in Bollschweil near Freiburg im Breisgau.

Filmography

production

As a contributor / performer

  • 1985: Humor is serious business - The film director Kurt Hoffmann (TV)
  • 1987: The father of a murderer (TV) (speaking role as narrator)
  • 1988: Phoenix from the ashes - Hans Abich and the film construction Göttingen (TV)
  • 1997: I think of Germany - The whisper in the mountain of things (TV)
  • 2001: On the way to the Mann family (2 episodes)
  • 2002: Life Goes On (TV)

Awards and honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Literature: Das petzt very uncommon , October 6, 2001, accessed on January 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Abich, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abich, Hans Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, general manager, radio journalist and program director of the First German Television
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rock oilsa
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2003
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau