Inge Heym

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Inge Heym , née Holm , divorced desert (born June 2, 1933 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German scenarioist, screenwriter and editor in.

Life

Inge Heym initially worked as an assistant director at Berliner Rundfunk and Germany broadcaster . Then she worked for a year in assembly at VEB Mechanik Askania Teltow . Since 1952 she studied pedagogy in Leipzig , afterwards she worked as a teacher in the children's home AS Makarenko in the Königsheide from 1954 .

From 1956 to 1961 she studied directing at the German Academy for Film Art in Babelsberg . As an assistant director to Werner W. Wallroth , she was involved in two films during this time ( Das Rabauken-Kabarett , 1960; Mord in Gateway , 1962).

Her first marriage was in 1955 with the documentary film director Werner Desert (* 1931), and her second marriage in 1971 with the writer Stefan Heym (1913–2001). She has a son from her first marriage who was born in 1958.

Act

From 1962 to 1982 Heym worked initially as a dramaturge, later only as a scenarioist in the DEFA studio for feature films after protests against Wolf Biermann's expulsion. There she developed and wrote popular children’s films such as Egon Schlegel’s Adventure with Blasius (based on the book Fair Adventure 1999 by Werner Bender ) and Who rips out for the devil (based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm ) and films for young people such as Rainer Simon's Men Without Bart (after Uwe Kant's Das Klassenfest ) and Herrmann Zschoches And next year at Lake Balaton (after I'm not a yogi by Joachim Walther ).

Inge Heym has been a freelance writer since 1982, and is also the editor of selected works by her late husband, Stefan Heym. The couple was under constant surveillance by the State Security because of their mutual critical attitude towards the government.

Your archive is located in the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

Publications

Fonts

  • The people on my street. Berlin stories . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-359-00980-0 .

Editorships

  • Stefan Heym. Interference. Conversations, speeches, essays . Selected and edited by Inge Heym and Heinfried Henniger. With an afterword by Egon Bahr. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-57008217-1 .
  • Stefan Heym. Open words on my own behalf. Talks, speeches, essays 1989–2001 . Selected and edited by Inge Heym, Heiner Henniger and Ralf Zwengel. btb Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-44273080-3 .
  • Stefan Heym. But I went over the border: early poems. Selected and edited by Inge Heym. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-57010160-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author lexicon: Inge Heym. In: literaturport.de. Literary Colloquium Berlin, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Regine Sylvester: The long breath. Inge Heym on life with a defiant writer . In: Berliner Zeitung of June 14, 2003.
  3. ↑ Ingo Zander: Inge Heym - dramaturge and author: At the side of a defiant writer. In: wdr.de. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Holger Kulick: Interview with Stefan and Inge Heym "We wanted to live honestly". In: spiegel.de. December 18, 2001, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Inge Heym Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Heym, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohn, Inge (maiden name); Desert, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scriptwriter and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Pankow