Hans Borgelt (journalist)

Hans Borgelt (born July 6, 1914 in Osnabrück , † February 17, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and author .

Life

Among other things, Hans Borgelt attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Eberswalde and then studied newspaper science in Berlin at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . He received his doctorate in 1940 with the writing Development and Structure of the Homeland Section in the Brandenburg newspapers, with special attention to the Eberswalder newspaper history . During the Second World War he worked in the propaganda department in Paris, among other places , where he censored French newspapers. He began his professional career as a culture editor for the Berliner Zeitung . Around 1950 he moved to West Berlin and worked there as a freelance journalist.

From 1953 to 1968 Borgelt was press officer at the Berlin International Film Festival . In the mid-1960s, he began writing screenplays for film and television. In 1969 the 6-part documentary Star unter Sternen was created about the film greats Zarah Leander , Heinz Rühmann , Hans Albers , Gert Fröbe , Willy Fritsch and Heinrich George . In the 1970s, Borgelt wrote, among other things, the series The Cases of Mr. Konstantin and the screenplay for the film adaptation of the Erich Kästner novel Fabian . His last work was in the mid-1990s, two episodes for the series For all cases Stefanie .

In addition, Borgelt wrote novels, chronicles about Berlin and the UFA and biographies about Lilian Harvey and Grethe Weiser as a book author . Based on the script for the film Didi and the Revenge of the Disinherited by and with Dieter Hallervorden , the novel of the same name was written in 1985.

Borgelt was a school and college colleague of the journalist Gerhard Dengler and a cousin of the actor Peter Borgelt .

Hans Borgelt died on February 17, 2000 at the age of 85 in Berlin. His grave is in the Wannsee II cemetery .

Filmography

• 1965: Unfortunately, all lies
• 1965: champagne lily
• 1966; The great vertigo - musical from the world of silent film
• 1969: Star under the stars (also director)
• 1969: The great Bomberg
• 1969: In the context of the impossible (also direction)
• 1972: Everyone talks about love
• 1974: The cases of Mr. Constantine
• 1974: Wedding night in paradise
• 1980: Fabian
• 1981: At home in strange beds
• 1985: Happy Holidays - Vacation stories from Mallorca
• 1987: A Chinese man is looking for his murderer
• 1989: Spree pirates
• 1989: the dancer
• 1989: The beggar from Kurfürstendamm
• 1995: Stefanie, just in case (2 episodes)

Publications

• 1943: Helmut Dietlof Reiche: Portrait of a Brandenburg poet
• 1970: Berlin, City of Films , Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin
• 1971: Grethe Weiser: Heart with a Snout , Blanvalet Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7645-1401-3
• 1974: The sweetest girl in the world: The Lilian-Harvey-Story , Hestia-Verlag, Bayreuth, ISBN 978-3-7770-0125-8
• 1975: Stars and Stories: Film history (s) from Berlin , Herbig-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7766-0728-4
• 1979: At home in strange beds (novel), Universitas, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8004-0835-1
• 1979: Filmstadt Berlin , Nicolai Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-87584-070-4
• 1979: 50 years of German sound film , Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin
• 1980: That was the spring of Berlin , Schneekluth, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7951-0534-1
• 1984: The double (novel), Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 978-3-404-10397-3
• 1985: Didi and the revenge of the disinherited (novel), Herbig-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7766-1358-2
• 1987: Ufa. On the trail of a large film factory in Berlin , Elefanten Press Verlag, ISBN 3885202255
• 1990: Spreepiraten (novel), Loewe Verlag, Bindlach, ISBN 978-3-7855-2278-3
• 1991: The long way to Berlin (novel), Edition q, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-928024-15-0
• 1991: The Canine War (novel), Edition q, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-928024-16-7
• 1993: UFA - a dream , Edition q, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86124-178-2
• 1995: Life begins on Friday (novel), Universitas, Munich, ISBN 978-3-8004-1318-8

Web links

• Hans Borgelt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hans Borgelt at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Hans Borgelt in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Gerhard Dengler: Lots of bumps in the helmet: my life as a SED functionary , 2000, ISBN 978-3-8311-0682-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerhard Dengler: Many bumps in the helmet: my life as a SED functionary , 2000, ISBN 978-3-8311-0682-0
2. ^ Hans Borgelt tot , Berliner Kurier dated February 20, 2000 , accessed on October 31, 2017
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 659.