Johanna Sibelius

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Johanna Sibelius (born February 10, 1913 in Berlin , † March 8, 1970 in Starnberg ; born Sibylle Freybe ) was a German screenwriter and writer .

Life

She was the sister of the writer Heidi Huberta Freybe (stage names: Katrin Holland, Martha Albrand ) and the actress Jutta Freybe .

Sibylle Freybe began an apprenticeship as a sculptor at the Berlin Art Academy with Otto Hitzberger at the age of 16 and switched to writing novels at the age of 18. From 1938 Johanna Sibelius wrote screenplays on her own. In 1939 she wrote the screenplay for the film Kongo Express , based on one of her novels. 43 more film manuscripts followed.

In 1931 Freybe married the head of the novel department at Ullstein-Verlag, Max Krell . The marriage ended in divorce after two years. From her second marriage in 1937 to the film dramaturge Horst von der Heyde , she had two children, Nils von der Heyde (1938) and Jorg von der Heyde (1941).

On August 9, 1941, she married the actor and screenwriter Eberhard Keindorff in Berlin . Your first script after the war was also the one for the first German post-war film: The Murderers Are Among Us , directed by Wolfgang Staudte . From 1949 she worked regularly with Keindorff. After the war, the couple of authors lived in Berlin, Hamburg, Rottach-Egern and Dießen am Ammersee and for two decades delivered home-style entertainment, mostly somewhat broad-based romantic comedies or literary adaptations.

Novels

  • 1936: Come back, Irene
  • 1938: A wife for Michael
  • 1939: Congo Express
  • 1947: Bastard (as Sibylle Freybe)
  • 1947: Source of Life (as Sibylle Freybe)
  • 1947: A Little Life (as Sibylle Freybe)
  • 1954: Beloved, little Pamela

Scripts

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Book: Wolfgang Staudte. [anonymous: Fritz Staudte, Johanna Sibelius, Eberhard Kleindorff] , see Hildegard Knef , filmography

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