Herbert Schauer

Herbert Schauer (born January 1, 1924 in Striegau , Silesia , today Strzegom , Poland , † October 2, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German writer and television author.

Life

Herbert Schauer was born as the son of a Reichsbahn official in Striegau in Silesia (today Strzegom). After attending school (graduation from high school ) he was a soldier and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944. After his return to Germany in 1945 he worked as a new teacher until 1949 . From 1950 to 1965 he worked as a newspaper editor in Berlin and at the same time studied journalism as a correspondence course at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1965 he worked as a freelance journalist and writer in Berlin. In 1966 he received the silver laurel of GDR television. He died on October 2, 1988 in his house in Berlin-Bohnsdorf .

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Herbert Schauer is known together with Otto Bonhoff as the author of television films that deal with manifestations of international fascism and deal with numerous factual material: "Shadows over Notre-Dame" (1966, with Angelica Domröse ) has the activities of the Cagoulards , the members of the French fascist secret society before the Second World War , on the historical background. Extensive historical research is also the basis for the adventure novel by both authors about the legendary farmer general Georg Kresse, "Avengers, Rescuers and Rapiers" (1982, with Walter Plathe ). “Across all of Spain cloudless sky” (1971) describes in an exciting story the prehistory of the war in Spain in 1936/38, the intrigues of the German fascist secret service and the English Secret Service, the interweaving of corporate interests and the military test action of the German General Staff, and at the same time the complicated ideology Change of a German intellectual.

The television series “ The invisible visor ” (1973, with Armin Mueller-Stahl ) tells the story of a foreign scout of the MfS who uncovered the escape routes and the involvement of former high-ranking National Socialists in West German society. The film series about the protagonist Werner Bredebusch alias "Oberleutnant Detjen", also known as the "East German James Bond ", advanced to become a street sweeper in the GDR.

Schauer and Bonhoff's design method is characterized by the meticulousness of the historian and the detective flair of the documentalist, the preparation of facts and events, as well as the uncovering of little-known background information; in doing so, they orientate themselves “more on action pictures than on the events themselves” ( HJ Geerdts ) and the psychological profiling of the characters. Most of the works were also published as books in the GDR and abroad.

Filmography

• 1966 "Shadows over Notre-Dame" (scenario),
• 1970/71 "Cloudless sky over all of Spain" (scenario),

Series " The Invisible Visor ", consisting of the following 9 parts of the first season:

• 1972/73 "The Roman Way" (screenplay, actor),
• 1972/73 "Das Wasserschloß" (screenplay, actor),
• 1972/73 "The nest in the jungle" (screenplay, actor),
• 1974/75 "A strange attack" (script),
• 1974/75 "The Secret of the Masks" (screenplay),
• 1975 "Riddle of the Fjord" (screenplay),
• 1975 "Depot in Skagerrak" (screenplay),
• 1976 "The peacock has seven eyes" (screenplay),
• 1976 "Murderers don't take a break" (screenplay),
• 1979/80 "art theft" (scenario),

bibliography

• "Shadows over Notre-Dame", together with Otto Bonhoff, ( military publisher of the GDR , 1967)
• "Avengers, Rescuers and Rapiers", together with Otto Bonhoff, (military publisher of the GDR, 1969)
• "Over the whole of Spain cloudless sky", together with Otto Bonhoff, (Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, 1971)
• " The invisible visor ", together with Otto Bonhoff
• "The invisible visor: the secret of the masks", together with Otto Bonhoff, (military publisher of the GDR, 1977)
• "The invisible visor: Depot in the Skagerrak", together with Otto Bonhoff, (military publisher of the GDR, 1979)
• "The invisible visor: the peacock has seven eyes", together with Otto Bonhoff, (military publisher of the GDR, 1981)
• "The Hunt of the Hunted" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, 1977)
• "The city that the devil created" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, 1982)
• "The controversial protocol" (Military Publishing House of the GDR, 1985)
• "Encounter in Zurich" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, 1987)
• "In the name of the crane" (military publisher of the GDR, 1989)
• "Pin-Point - Piracy and Passion" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, 1990)

See also

• List of writers of the GDR

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Schauer in the catalog of the German National Library