Herbert Asmodi

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Hebert Asmodi

Herbert Asmodi (born March 30, 1923 in Heilbronn as Herbert Kaiser , † March 3, 2007 in Munich ) was a German writer , playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Herbert Asmodi was born as Herbert Kaiser in the city of Heilbronn. The mother Anna Kaiser (nee Liehm) came from Vienna, the father Christian Ernst Kaiser from Schwenningen. Herbert Asmodi attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Heilbronn, where he graduated from high school in 1942. During the Second World War he served as a soldier from 1942 to 1945 and was then taken prisoner by the Americans . After his release, he studied German, art history and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1946 . From 1952 he lived in Munich. He worked as a freelance writer and theater critic for the Münchner Merkur . Herbert Asmodi first wrote stage works , later also scripts, poems and stories. For his first play Jenseits vom Paradies (1954) he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize from the Free Volksbühne Berlin.

In the 1970s Herbert Asmodi was best known for his literary adaptations, especially the adaptations of English authors such as Wilkie Collins . Among other things, he wrote the scripts for Collins' novel adaptations, which were broadcast by WDR . The woman in white had around 25 million viewers in 1971. Wilhelm Semmelroth directed these films and Hans Jönsson composed the music.

From the mid-1970s Herbert Asmodi turned to poetry and published two volumes of poetry. He wrote novels and short stories in the 1980s .

Herbert Asmodi was married to his first wife Helga Kaiser (nee Wittmeyer; born 1931, died 1978) from 1956 to 1978. From this marriage he has a daughter (Katja, born 1963). Since 2001 he has been married to his second wife, Margarete Freifrau von Hallberg zu Broich (born 1936).

Works

theatre

Herbert Asmodi's early plays are attributed to the theater of the absurd . His best-known dramas are Beyond Paradise (1953), Pardon Is Not Given (1958), Post-Season (1959), The Men Eaters ( 1962), Mohren Wash (1964) and Die and Become (1966), The True Story of Wild Life and Death Marie von Brinvilliers - Lovers, Poisoners and Marquisees (1970), Money (1973), The Story of the Little Blue Mountain Lake and the Eagle (1996, together with Wilfried Hiller ).

Poems

  • 1975: "Jokers Gala"
  • 1976: "Jokers Farewell"

Novels

  • The lady from the Tuileries or the madness of love . Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88221-846-0
  • Adieu les belles choses - the latest news from Nostalgia. A memory . Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88221-867-3

stories

  • 1987: The harpies smile

Scripts

Radio plays

  • 1963: The Harakiri Series - Director: Hans-Dieter Schwarze (Detective radio play - BR / HR)
  • 1998: Last Rose - Director: Hans Rosenhauer (MDR)

Others

  • In the film adaptation of The Young Törless (1965-66) he also appeared as an actor.
  • Asmodi also wrote children's books, such as “Robbers and Gendarmes” ( 1973 ) and “Little Anna and the Wild Friederich” ( 1988 ).
  • He also translated the children's book in the series “Stories for Children Under Three”, story number 1 by Eugène Ionesco , Gertraud Middelhauve Verlag, Cologne 1969, ISBN 3-7876-9170-7

Honors

literature

  • Erhard Jöst : playwright and writer with a penchant for cynicism. Herbert Asmodi (1923-2007). In: Christhard Schrenk (Ed.): Heilbronner Köpfe , Volume VIII, Heilbronn City Archives 2016, pp. 11–32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement from the Ordenskanzlei in the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Asmodi, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaiser, Herbert (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2007
Place of death Munich