Hans von Oettingen
Hans von Oettingen (also: Hans-Georg von Oettingen , pseudonyms : Alexander von Mellin , HG von Reichenberg , born January 28, 1919 in Heidelberg , † September 3, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German writer .
Life
Hans von Oettingen was the son of the gynecologist Karljohann von Oettingen . Hans von Oettingen completed an apprenticeship as a colonial farmer and studied at the University of Marburg . He took the soldier as a Wehrmacht on World War II in part. In 1944 he was arrested on charges of having " armed resistance against state power ". In 1945, he was six years prison sentenced. Oettingen was able to escape from custody (which earned him a death sentence in absentia ) and fell into American captivity , from which he was released in 1946.
In the first post-war years, Hans von Oettingen worked as a journalist and publisher in Frankfurt am Main ; from 1950 he ran an advertising agency there . He later worked as a management consultant in France and Switzerland . In November 1964 he was arrested in Zurich for espionage for the GDR and in February 1966 sentenced to 27 months in prison by a Zurich court. In May 1966, Oettingen's early release from prison took place in exchange for the departure of a group of Swiss citizens from the GDR. Hans von Oettingen moved to the GDR and lived as a freelance writer in East Berlin until his death . His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.
Hans von Oettingen's literary works have been published by GDR publishers since 1956. Oettingen was the author of novels , short stories , television scripts and radio plays . Most of his works are ideologically tinged war, adventure and crime stories , some of which were published in high editions by the GDR military publishing house. Öttingen's novel Casino affair was the inspiration for the movie Casino affair of Arthur Pohl , the first wide-screen production of Defa from the year 1957th
The costume designer Sabine von Oettingen is his daughter.
Works
- The Struwwelpeter after Heinr. Hoffmann , Offenbach / Main 1948
- The fairy tale of Goldi, the first ray of spring sunshine , Frankfurt / M. 1949
- Move yourselves - if you can , Berlin 1956 (under the name Alexander von Mellin)
- Casino affair , Berlin 1956
- Advertising - bluff or science? , Berlin 1956 (under the name HG von Reichenberg)
- Small hotel with a heart , Berlin 1958
- The silk front , Berlin 1958
- The beast of Marseille , Neuenhagen b. Berlin 1959
- Please be allowed to die , Berlin 1959
- Secret fronts , Neuenhagen b. Berlin 1959
- Escape to the front , Berlin 1962
- Mord AG , Neuenhagen b. Berlin 1962
- The rats came at night , Berlin 1962
- The threshold , Berlin 1962
- Top secret! , Berlin 1962
- The death bet , Neuenhagen b. Berlin 1962
- The maneuver , Berlin 1963
- Murder on credit , Berlin 1963
- The white accident car , Berlin 1963
- Before the day begins , Berlin 1964
- Murderer in uniform , Berlin 1964
- The dead man from Charley's Bar , Berlin 1964
- Help urgently needed , Berlin 1965
- Mister Hull arrives at twelve , Berlin 1965
- A thousand dollars for a corpse , Berlin 1965
- On the run home , Berlin 1967
- The convict from Devil's Island , Berlin 1967
- Attention red light! , Berlin 1968
- The man from Canada , Berlin 1968
- The invisible front , Berlin 1968
- Twenty years of adventure , Berlin 1969
- Chronicle of a murder , Berlin 1969
- Ede with the combination pliers , Berlin 1969
- Course Tampico , Berlin 1969
- You don't die twice , Berlin 1969
- Rusty fame , Berlin 1969
- The stranger in the border forest , Berlin 1970
- The big bluff , Berlin 1970
- The scalpel , Berlin 1971
- The second face , Berlin 1971
- Adventure of my life , Berlin 1981
Editing
- Studied with friends , Berlin 1958
- Research, teaching, life , Berlin 1959
Filmography (selection)
template
- 1957: Casino affair
script
- 1960: Dance girls for Istanbul
- 1967: The man from Canada
Web links
- Hans von Oettingen's biography on the "Friedparks" website
- Documents from and about Oettingen, Hans von in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
- Note from A. Janner: "Summary note on the release of the East German agent Hans von Oettingen" in the Dodis databaseof Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
- Hans von Oettingen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oettingen, Hans von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oettingen, Hans-Georg von; Mellin, Alexander von (pseudonym); Reichenberg, HG von (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1983 |
Place of death | Berlin |