Hansjürgen Weidlich

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Hansjürgen Weidlich (born March 18, 1905 in Holzminden ; † June 12, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German writer and "radio man".

Life

youth

At the time of the German Empire , the family of the then four-year-old Hansjürgen Weidlich moved to Hanover and into "the ground floor in the dark corner house on Bödekerstraße at the end of Rumannstraße " after his father, the town planner Emil Weidlich , had taken a new position in the city. In the corner house in which the Weidlichs lived until 1915, the children - according to Weidlich's childhood memories - were allowed to watch the annual evening torchlight procession on the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm , for example .

Weidlich left the high school in Hanover, the Leibniz School, in 1922 , learned to be a businessman and worked as such until 1927. He emigrated to the United States , but could not realize the American dream “from dishwasher to millionaire” for himself. He worked as a warehouse manager in Pittsburgh and as a packer in New York City . In 1932 he returned to Europe and settled in Berlin.

Career as a publicist

At first he presented his experiences in autobiographical novels, as in Felix contra USA , but also wrote articles for the radio. He tried his hand at film as a screenwriter and minor actor , albeit without making a breakthrough.

In 1940 he was drafted into military service. After the end of the war he lived first in the Lüneburg Heath, later in Hamburg. He wrote numerous cheerful stories and chats, which initially appeared as newspaper articles and later also in anthologies and in book form. For radio and later for television he wrote many contributions both serious (biblical stories for school radio etc.) as well as cheerful and participated in the production as an actor.

Assessments

According to Reclam's radio play guide, Weidlich was a radio genius, " a folksy microphone chatterer (...) with (...) noncommittal, warm humor ", a " friendly natural talent who only used radio and developed without it ".

Claus Harms wrote in the Hannoversche Allgemeine : “ Only those who know Weidlich, this wonderfully Eulenspiegel-like type, know how much the what and the how of all his tragicomic stories is identical to the person who doesn't want to tell anything more than 'how it is in human life '. Yes, it's as if he casually steps into our room: 'Children, I have to tell you a story quickly.' And the miracle happens that he, who doesn’t care about himself, not only makes us laugh, but also makes us think a little. "

Works

Novels

  • Felix contra USA - a German gets to grips with America. Novel of the Quota-Immigrant No. 10363 (1934) Buch- und Gravdruck -Gesellschaft mbH (Rudolf Mosse), Berlin; (1964) new edition revised by the author Agentur des Rauhen Haus , Hamburg, p. 290
  • I'm only human too (novel 1935)
  • Relocation doubtful (A boy novel 1962, first edition 1942 against the wishes of the author: Little Men )
  • When the Wind Gets Over It: A Love Story (1961, 1963)

Stories and chats

  • There must be order! (1955)
  • The adventurous disc (1956, 1960)
  • The Knilch and his Little Sister (1958, 1969. An early treatment of the topic of adoption in literature, autobiographical)
  • Love stories for shy people (1959, 1970. Illustrated by Bele Bachem ) Agency des Rauhen Haus , Hamburg, 1959, p. 157, 17 illustrations (including cover)
  • Stories with a Heart (1960, 1969)
  • Mr. Knilch and Miss Sister (1965, 1970)
  • I come from the moon (1969, 6th edition 1980)
  • The best of the whole day (1979)

Radio play and series

  • Felix on the move (1935)
  • Stories without comment
  • There must be order
  • Radio plays on the Bible (series)

Film appearance

TV reports

  • Three television games
  • 17 biblical picture stories
  • Series The Strange Experiences of Hansjürgen Weidlich (BR 1961/62)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hansjürgen Weidlich: Hindenburg and his dachshund , in Diethard H. Klein , Herbert Grohmann (ed.): Hanover. A reader. The city of Hanover then and now in sagas and stories, memories and reports, letters and poems , Husum: Husum-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 978-3-88042-324-4 and ISBN 3-88042-324-5 , p. 126f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1911, Section III, p. 521
personal data
SURNAME Weidlich, Hansjürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzminden
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1985
Place of death Goettingen