Hans Werner Kettenbach

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Hans Werner Kettenbach (born April 20, 1928 in Bendorf ; † January 5, 2018 in Cologne ; pseudonym : Christian Ohlig ) was a German journalist , writer and screenwriter.

Life

Hans Werner Kettenbach grew up in Cologne. After graduating from high school , he began studying newspaper and theater studies , which he had to abandon in 1953 after his father's death in order to continue his business, an advertising agency. From 1954 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1964 he was lecturer for radio and television plays at Westdeutscher Rundfunk . From 1956 to 1958 he completed an internship at the news desk of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . In 1958 he started again studying , this time with a focus on Eastern European history and philosophy . In 1965 he received his doctorate on Lenin's theory of imperialism at the University of Cologne .

From 1964 on, Kettenbach worked as an editor for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : from 1966 to 1968 as chief reporter and from 1968 as correspondent and head of the newspaper's Bonn office. From 1974 to 1975 he was chairman of the Federal Press Conference in Bonn. In 1978 he went to New York as a correspondent ; after his return he was deputy editor-in-chief of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 1988 until his departure in 1992 .

Hans Werner Kettenbach began his literary work in the 1970s as a recreational author with psychological crime novels and was ultimately one of the best-known German-speaking crime fiction authors. In addition, he wrote a number of radio plays and scripts , especially for the character of the television commissioner " Klefisch ", played by Willy Millowitsch . Kettenbach, who was a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the "Jerry Cotton Prize" in 1977 for the manuscript of his first novel, Grand with Fours, written in a fortnight, and the German Crime Prize in 1988 for Schmatz or Die Sackgasse . In 2009, Kettenbach was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize (Ehren-Glauser) .

Kettenbach was married since 1957. He had two daughters.

Kettenbach died in early January 2018 at the age of 89 in a Cologne hospital.

Works

  • The long march of the Federal Republic , Düsseldorf [ao] 1971
  • Grand with four , Bergisch Gladbach 1978
  • Der Pascha , Vienna [ao] 1979
  • Behind the horizon , Vienna [et al.] 1981
  • Glatteis , Bergisch Gladbach 1982
  • Minnie or A Case of Insignificance , Zurich 1984
  • Days of death , Zurich 1986
  • Schmatz or Die Sackgasse , Zurich 1987
  • The fig leaf picker , Zurich 1992
  • David's revenge , Zurich 1994
  • The treasure diggers , Zurich 1998
  • Willy Millowitsch as Commissioner Klefisch , Cologne 1999
  • The competitor , Zurich 2002
  • Small town affair , Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-257-06385-7
  • Visiting Dr. Buzzard , Zurich 2006
  • The strong sex , Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06688-3
  • Aunt Joice and the lust for life . Stories and other things. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-06740-8

Editing

  • Democracy as a Mission , Bonn 1979 (together with Hans Kepper)

Filmography

script

Literary templates

  • 1988: In the year of the turtle (based on the novel Dying Days )
  • 1989: Tennessee Nights (based on the novel Minnie )
  • 1997: David's revenge (based on the novel of the same name)
  • 1998: Glatteis (based on the novel of the same name)
  • 2002: Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (based on the novel Behind the Horizon )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journalist and writer Kettenbach is dead . dpa message on sueddeutsche.de , January 5, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2020 . .
  2. ^ Peter Mohr: Literary late bloomer - For the 80th birthday of the writer Hans Werner Kettenbach . Literaturkritik.de , April 17, 2008, changed on November 21, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2018.

3. A message from Diogenes Verlag in Zurich

personal data
SURNAME Kettenbach, Hans Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohlig, Christian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2018
Place of death Cologne