Hans Pfeiffer (writer)

Hans Pfeiffer (born February 22, 1925 in Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † September 27, 1998 in Wurzen near Leipzig ) was a German author, playwright and storyteller.

Life

After the Second World War , Pfeiffer studied at the School Science Institute in Leipzig and initially worked as a teacher. He then studied philosophy , history and literature at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

He later earned his living as a lecturer and professor of artistic teaching at the Johannes R. Becher Institute in Leipzig and as a freelance writer.

Pfeiffer wrote detective novels and popular science collections of forensic medical cases, which were published by Verlag Das Neue Berlin and Greifenverlag Rudolstadt. From the 1990s his books were published by Militzke-Verlag . Pfeiffer also wrote historical novels, biographies and radio and television plays.

Works

Detective novels

• Shots on the high moor (stories), Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt (1961)
• Murder cases from the new Pitaval Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt / GDR (1962)
• Seven dead need a murderer , Vlg Das Neue Berlin, NB-R.48 (1964)
• Murder without a motive , Das Neue Berlin, NL-Roman 52 (1965)
• Dead Strombahnen , Das Neue Berlin, DIE-Reihe 182 (1974)
• One side of the triangle , Das Neue Berlin, DIE-Reihe 431 (1980)
• On the Edge of the Abyss , (THE 160) OA (1992)

Forensic medical case collections

• The language of the dead (non-fiction book) Das Neue Berlin (1968)
• The language of the dead - unexplained deaths on the dissection table (non-fiction book), Militzke-Verlag, OA (1993)
• Traces of the Dead - Forensic Medicine in the Service of Truth (non-fiction book), Das Neue Berlin (1977)
• The traces of the dead - unexplained deaths on the dissection table (non-fiction book), Militzke-Verlag, (1994), extensive new version of the book from 1977 with a different structure and largely different cases
• The games of the dead - unexplained deaths on the dissection table (non-fiction book), Militzke-Verlag, OA (1995)
• The compulsion to series - serial killers without a mask , Militzke Verlag, OA (1996), ISBN 3-86189-729-6 , pp. 16–36 ( online (pp. 146 ff.)) , Accessed on May 30, 2014
• The Hippocratic Treason - Murderous Doctors , Militzke-Verlag, OA (1997)
• The spectrum of the dead Militzke-Verlag, OA (1999) posthumously
• Two steps to death - lawyers and crime , Militzke-Verlag 1998
• The (self) murder of Rosa Luxemburg - historical fantasies , Militzke-Verlag 1997

Other books

• Concept and image. Heine's philosophical and aesthetic views (essay) Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt / GDR (1958)
• Exclusion zone (short stories), Verlag der Nation (1959)
• " The Mummy in the Glass Coffin" - Comments on crime literature (literary theory work), Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt / GDR (1961)
• Leipzig (illustrated book, as a copywriter) (1969)
• Pleading (non-fiction book), Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR (1970)
• Thomas Müntzer (Biograph. Novel), New Life Publishing House (1975)
• Fantasy murders-A foray through the GDR detective novel (literary theory work), Das Neue Berlin, Berlin / GDR (1985)
• Recipes for criminal dishes , Das Neue Berlin OA HC (1987)
• Scharnhorst (historical novel), Verlag Neues Leben (1989)
• Die Höhle von Babie Doly , story, Miltzke HC (posthumously, first published in ndl 12/1957) (2005)
• "Our beautiful bloody craft" (a Charité novel), LKG, 1994

Wireless

• 1960: Shots on the raised bog , GDR, 59 minutes, March 23, 1960, GDR radio
• 1960: The Swedish match (after Chekhov) broadcast of the GDR
• 1960: Two doctors , adaptation of the play of the same name by Hans Pfeiffer: Wolfgang Beck , 50 min, April 10, 1960, GDR radio
• 1962–1968: The hair-raising adventures of the detective Dick Dickson (children's radio play, 13 episodes), with Herbert Köfer , Rundfunk der DDR
• 1962: Dialogue , (radio play) radio of the GDR, 53 min, April 20, 1962, radio of the GDR
• 1962: The other bank , GDR (children's radio play)
• 1962: Salto mortale (detective radio play) GDR radio, April 16, 1962
• 1964: Artist bad luck , GDR (1964)
• 1965: Paragraph 51 or miracles must be paid for , 58 min, EA May 27, 1965, Broadcasting of the GDR
• 1966: The latest adventures of the detective Dick - The Big, Big Sleep - Director: Ingeborg Milster (Children's radio play (Part 1) - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1968: Down there in Alabama - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1970: Identification of an unknown dead person (detective radio play about the murder of Theodor Lessing), GDR radio, 48 minutes, July 15, 1970, GDR radio
• 1977: Salut to all - Marx , adaptation of the play of the same name by Hans Pfeiffer: Wolfgang Beck , 50 min, September 6, 1977, GDR radio
• 1983: Paris, once more , (with Jürgen Holtz ) Radio DDR, directed by Barbara Plensat , 50 min, EA March 13, 1983
• 1984: Paris, once more (new production with Rolf Hoppe ) Director: Walter Niklaus , 50 min, November 24, 1984, GDR radio
• 1985: Confidence. War and peace in my library (feature), voice of the GDR 53 min. EA April 1, 1985

watch TV

• Seven dead are looking for a murderer (TV film, TV of the GDR) (Script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1962)
• The Swedish match (TV film, TV of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer after Chekhov) (1964)
• The three holy kings (TV film, television of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1965)
• Whom the bell strikes (TV film, TV of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1966)
• Witnesses (television film, television in the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1966)
• Target address (television film, television in the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1967)
• Invoice with unknowns (TV film, TV of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1968)
• Because I saw a new earth (multi-part television film, television of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1970)
• Secret Trial Grusinius, (crime television game, television of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1974)
• The Sanden Child Murder Trial (TV film, TV of the GDR) (Script / Scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1974)
• Sensation process Lafarge (TV film, TV of the GDR) (script / scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1975)
• Scharnhorst (five-part television film, television of the GDR, between 60 and 75 minutes each) (script: Hans Pfeiffer, director: Wolf-Dieter Panse ) EA November 3, 1978 (weekly) DDR1 (1978)
• Marx and Engels stations in their lives (TV series, TV of the GDR, 11 parts, each between 43 and 51 minutes) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Böttner, Gerhard Mackat, Günter Marquardt, Werner Cassbaum, Jörg Mischek, director: Michael Knof , Celino white lead ) (1979/1980)
• The plot (TV film, TV of the GDR, 86 min) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer, Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse) EA October 27, 1979 DDR2 (1979)
• CLAUSEWITZ - Life picture of a Prussian general (TV film, TV of the GDR, 90 min) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer, Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse) EA May 27, 1980 DDR1 (1980)
• FAMOUS DOCTORS OF THE CHARITE-Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (TV film, GDR television, 96 min) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer, Director: Peter Deutsch) EA March 22, 1981 DDR1 (1981)
• Karl Marx - The Young Years (seven-part television series, GDR television, 60 min each) (Script: Anatoli Grebnew, Boris Dobrodejew, Lew Kulidschanow, Hans Pfeiffer, Director: Lew Kalidshinow) EA January 20 - February 3, 1981 DDR1 (1981 )
• Head and Heart (TV film, TV from the GDR, 70 min) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer, Director: Edgar Kaufmann) EA April 10, 1983 DDR1 (1983)
• The Interview (TV film, TV from the GDR, 50 min) (Script: Hans Pfeiffer and Erich Selbmann , Director: Michael Knof) EA May 5, 1983 DDR1 (1983)
• Bebel und Bismarck (three-part television film, GDR television, 85 min each) (script: Hans Pfeiffer, director: Wolf-Dieter Panse) EA January 14 - 20, 1987 DDR1 (1987)
• Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes (TV film, TV of the GDR) (Script / Scenario: Hans Pfeiffer) (1989)

theatre

• Night logis, Altenburg (1955)
• Farewell (one-act play), Leipzig (1957)
• Hamlet in Heidelberg (drama), Leipzig (1958)
• Lantern Festival (drama) ring performance of 10 stages (1958)
• Two Doctors (Acting), Leipzig (1959)
• The third shift (acting), Eisleben (1960)
• The others are to blame (drama), Leipzig (1961)
• Encounter with Hercules (Comedy), Leipzig (1965)
• Münchhausen auf Artemis (comedy, with G. Kaltofen), Leipzig (1971)
• Small Gardens (Schwank, co-author), Berlin (1971)
• Salute to everyone. Marx (documentary piece, with G. Kaltofen), Berlin (1976)
• Heine's last love (documentary, with G. Kaltofen), Berlin (1977)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Pfeiffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hans Pfeiffer in the crime dictionary