Hans von Oettingen

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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

Oettingen's grave

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

script

Web links

personal data
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