Holmar Attila Mück

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Holmar Attila Mück (born June 8, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German radio, film and television author and director.

Life

Holmar Attila Mück was born in Berlin as the son of a Hungarian diplomat . After graduating from high school in 1963, he worked as a medical intern at the Charité . In 1965 he was withdrawn from medical school because he refused to do military service ; He turned down a substitute course in biology / chemistry. Instead he studied Protestant theology. From 1970 he worked as a publishing editor, then as a dramaturge in the DEFA studio for documentary films in Berlin. Since 1968 he has been writing radio stories, essays, radio plays, feature articles and features as an employee of the Berliner Rundfunk .

In 1976 he quit his position at DEFA, resigned from the GDR's Association of Film and Television Workers and in 1979 traveled to Yugoslavia. In 1980 he met Eva Strittmatter , about whom he made a film portrait in 1982.

In 1985 he became a member of the GDR writers' association, and in 1986 he traveled to Rome, where he researched Armin T. Wegner and Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg . Here began a long friendship with the Jesuit Peter Gumpel , a historian and judge at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in the Vatican. In 1987 he moved "illegally" to West Berlin. He initially wrote as a freelancer for the RIAS Berlin and the SFB . Since then he has been a freelance radio, film and television writer and director. From 1991 to 2006 he worked as a writer and director at ORB and RBB .

Mück is a member of the Association of German Writers .

Works

Mück wrote numerous radio features , wrote over 30 radio plays - mostly on historical topics - and edited novels from world literature for radio.

Radio narratives

  • The palm wine drinker (after Amos Tutuola)
  • The Thibaults (after RM du Gard)
  • St. Peters Umbrella (after M. Kalman)
  • Guilt and Atonement (after F. Dostojewski)
  • The Metamorphosis (after F. Kafka)

Literature features

  • The bust in the cellar (K. Hamsun)
  • Fragments of a Believer (Eugen G. Winkler)
  • The knives are steaming ... (poets - doctors)
  • The Lark on the Baseball Bat (Poetry and Violence)
  • With my god I can jump over walls (Albrecht Goes)
  • Reason is also a utopia (Erwin Strittmatter)
  • Light behind the fog (Eva Strittmatter)
  • Come on let's wait for the sick night (Jakob van Hoddis)
  • The other worldview (blindness in literature)
  • Signals from the labyrinth (literature in prison)
  • Ithaca - The Feast of Penelope (after Homer)
  • Edelworms and their magic gardens (readers, collectors, antiquarians)
  • Words against Kalashnikov (Hungarian poet 1956)
  • The Brooklyn Bridge Symphony (Hart Crane)
  • Under general suspicion (FBI and German exiled authors)
  • Biography of a love (P. Neruda)
  • Rilke in Ronda (RM Rilke)
  • The forgotten sleep (J. sleep)
  • Uncomfortable perception (W. Raabe)
  • "Dense, poet, don't meet ..." (Foundation of the European poets' association in 1941)
  • I Almost Forgot My Dream (Harlem Renaissance African American Authors)
  • Alone in good company (Long Night over European Literature Cafés)
  • The Art of Connection (Long Night Over Bridges)

Films, television films, television games

  • 1976: Our sandman: Rostock I
  • 1976: Our sandman: Rostock II
  • 1976: The special day: Drop Dreams (Festival Prize, with Ernst Cantzler )
  • 1980: The special day: truck drivers
  • 1986: The crazy guy from the Pleicher Ring
  • Language of Steps (Festival Prize with E. Cantzler);
  • Quiet, damn it, father works (Hans Fallada, with Günter Meyer);
  • I see what I see (Eva - Strittmatter - portrait, with E. Cantzler / Thomas Plenert);
  • In the Lord's Quarry (pastoral care in prison);
  • Die Kaderschmieden Gottes (theologian training in the GDR);
  • It just had to be Chelsea (New York report with M. Lösche);
  • VERDUN leaves for Virginie;
  • Penne, Pauker and Pennäler (The Friedrichs-Gymnasium Frankfurt. Ad Oder);
  • The power of silence (Knut Hamsun);
  • Harlem's voice under a march sky (with Sonja de la Rubia);
  • Vicky - Princess under the Pickelhaube (Die Kaiserin Friedrich, with A. Bergmann);
  • Gold for the king (J. Fr. Böttger);
  • An Adler's Last Circles (on Arthur Rimbaud, Curt Bois' last film work);

Books, audio books, dramas

  • Toledo - or the discovery of the sky . Katzengrabenpresse, 1992. ISBN 391017826X
  • The Dark Tower. German writers in exile on the Hudson River . New York 2001
  • Berlin walks. 8 feuilletons on 4 CDs . Speaker: Gunter Schoß, 2005. ISBN 3359010825
  • Without kettledrums and trumpets . Comedy. First performance 1985 Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World premiere

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mück, Holmar Attila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio, film and television author and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin