Joachim Barckhausen

Joachim Barckhausen (born April 8, 1906 in Egeln , † 1978 in West Berlin ) was a German writer, translator and screenwriter.

Life

Barckhausen became known as an author of historical non-fiction books and novels from the late 1938s. His biographical novel Ohm Krüger about the Boer leader Paul Kruger , published in 1941, has been translated several times. After 1945 it was included in the list of literature to be sorted out by the German Administration for National Education . According to a list published by the Department of Popular Education of the Berlin Magistrate , Barckhausen's works were classified as "völkisch" and should all be removed from the library holdings.

Despite this background, Barckhausen was able to work successfully as a scriptwriter for DEFA for several years . In 1975 he wrote an epilogue to the autobiography of the “red count” Alexander Stenbock-Fermor , published by the East Berlin publishing house of the nation , after the latter had died before completion.

Barckhausen was married to the writer Elfriede Brüning from 1937 to 1948 . Their daughter is the writer Christiane Barckhausen .

bibliography

• Wholesaling loneliness. Poems. Zwei Säulen Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1932, 30 pp.
• The yellow empire: life story of a power. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1938, 291 pages (about Genghis Khan ).
• Men and powers on the Bosporus: Abdul Hamid and his time. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1938, 313 pp.
• Panic in Arranca. Novel. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1939, 219 pp.
• Ohm Krüger: novel of a fighter. Buchwarte-Verlag, Berlin 1941, 416 pp.
  • Dutch: Oom Paul: De roman van een leven van strijd. Translated by W. Vinkhuijzen. Oceanus, The Hague 1942, 351 pp.
  • Danish: Gamle Krüger Translated by Jacob Bech Nygaard. Erichsen, København 1942, 278 pp.
  • Afrikaans: Manic Ackermann: Oom Paul: 'n roman. Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel, Johannesburg 1964, 255 pp.
• with Hans Springer: Men against stone and steel: 5000 years of struggle for fortresses. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1942, 179 pp.
• with Alexander Stenbock-Fermor: Semmelweis: Savior of Mothers. A film. Deutscher Filmverlag, Berlin 1950, 157 pp.
• with Sava Bosulka: Natalie: Serbia's ostracized Queen or The Secrets of Belgrade's Royal Palace . Sensational novel. Exhumed u. refurbished by Joachim Barckhausen. With 32 original ill. from d. Original version, Sponholtz-Verlag, Hannover 1968, 496 pp.
• Alexander Stenbock-Fermor: The red count: autobiography. With an epilogue by Joachim Barckhausen. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1975.

Translations

• 1936 William Thomi: The Magic Boat. Novel. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1936, 360 pp.
• 1937 Marina Yurlova : Kosak Maria: Memories of a female front soldier from war and revolution. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1937, 307 pp.

Filmography

• 1948 Grube Morgenrot (screenplay with Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor; DEFA )
• 1950 Mother Courage and her children (with Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor; planned adaptation of Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht ; not realized)
• 1950 Semmelweis - Savior of Mothers (screenplay with Elfriede Brüning ; DEFA; director: Georg C. Klaren )
• 1950 Benthin family (dramaturgy; DEFA; directors: Slatan Dudow and Kurt Maetzig ; script: Johannes R. Becher , Slatan Dudow, Kuba, Ehm Welk)
• 1952 career in Paris (scenario with Count Alexander Stenbock-Fermor; DEFA; based on the novel Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac )
• 1953 The girl with the sulfur woods (screenplay; TV film based on the fairy tale The little girl with the sulfur woods by Hans Christian Andersen )
• 1954 Heavenly Music (screenplay with Paul Gordon; documentary)
• 1955 Das Fräulein von Scuderi (screenplay; GDR & Sweden; director: Eugen York; based on the novella Das Fräulein von Scuderi by ETA Hoffmann )
• 1958 Tilman Riemenschneider (screenplay; GDR; director: Helmut Spieß)
• 1962 Murder Without Atonement (screenplay; DEFA; director: Carl Balhaus; based on a novel by Theo Harych )

literature

• Christian Adam : The dream of the year zero: Authors, bestsellers, readers: The reorganization of the world of books in East and West after 1945. Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 , pp. 262–264.

Web links

• Joachim Barckhausen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of birth April 8, 1906 according to passport from 1936 .