Helmuth M. Backhaus

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Helmuth Manuel Backhaus (born June 6, 1920 in Bonn , † May 5, 1989 in Munich ; pseudonym: Gregor Trass ) was a German writer , radio play writer , screenwriter , film director , master of ceremonies and actor .

Life

Helmuth M. Backhaus had lived with his mother and sister in Munich since the 1930s and graduated from high school here in 1939. After his labor service and military service with the Luftnachrichten , he studied law and theater studies in Frankfurt am Main for several semesters . He did not finish his law studies.

In 1945 his first play Wir unter Uns was performed in Munich. This made Radio Munich , the forerunner of Bavarian Broadcasting, aware of him, where he was trained as a speaker from 1945 to 1946. From January 1946 he built at Radio Munich with the American control officer Walter Kohner the cabaret Department and director until 1947. There he was, among other things with Small cover charge , tens cabaret , night Windmill , Sly hours and Blue Saturday to hear.

For Bayerischer Rundfunk he wrote skits , radio plays , features and documentary programs , in which he often directed himself. He also wrote poems, plays and non-fiction books, mostly with a humorous note. At the Lore Bronner stage in Munich he was seen as Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion .

Backhaus was involved in several entertainment films in the 1950s and 1960s as a screenwriter, actor or director, sometimes under the pseudonym Gregor Trass . He left behind over 1,500 pictures, including oil paintings , watercolors , gouaches , etchings and caricatures .

The estate is looked after by Sabine Freifrau von Süsskind in Dennenlohe .

Fonts

  • 1947: Small place setting - verses
  • 1960: Driving for two - features section
  • 1968: The hourglass and other scary stories
  • 1969: Firpo the barrel
  • 1971: The Midnight Rehearsal and Other Scary Stories
  • 1971: The hourglass and other scary stories
  • 1972: Island for two - cheerful novel
  • 1972: Jim Colt's adventures
  • 1975: Götter GmbH and Co. KG.
  • 1975: Darling doesn't fall asleep all the time - cheerful novel
  • 1976: love yes - marriage no - cheerful novel
  • 1977: The secret of the red lighthouse
  • 1978: The Occident in a Saucepan - Cultural History of Food
  • 1981: I want to die in my boots - verses
  • 1982: Animal Heaven - Story
  • 1983: The Venetian Angel - Story
  • 1984: The Dance of Death
  • 1985: Are Computers Male or Female?

Plays

  • We among ourselves
  • The Casanova's school
  • Three in one room
  • Luck on the way
  • The last king
  • Kidnapping in Venice

Radio plays

Filmography (as a screenwriter)

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Backhaus, Helmuth M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Backhaus, Helmuth Manuel; Trass, Gregor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, director, emcee and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1989
Place of death Munich