Johannes Hendrich

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Johannes Hendrich (born May 23, 1919 in Mährisch Lotschnau , Zwittau district , Czechoslovakia ; † July 4, 1980 in West Berlin ) was a German writer , radio play and screenplay writer .

Live and act

Johannes Hendrich, an autodidact , began his writing activities as a newspaper editor before he was drafted from 1938 to 1945. His early works include reports and short stories in various German-language newspapers and magazines in Czechoslovakia. After the end of the war in 1945, Hendrich settled in West Berlin, where he can be identified as the author of around 60 radio plays from 1953 until his death (initially mainly for the RIAS , later also for various German broadcasters). From 1969 he also directed it. In 1957 Hendrich made his television debut, and at the beginning of 1958 he also commissioned scripts for the cinema. But Hendrich has been focusing on television work since the following year.

Hendrich's four screenplay contributions for the cinema in 1958 are artistically completely insignificant. However, his later television manuscripts show strong artistic and social ambitions. He worked with leading directors of those years, including Arthur Pohl , Thomas Engel , Günter Gräwert , Fritz Umgelter , Ludwig Cremer , Theo Mezger and, most recently, Peter Schulze-Rohr . Hendrich turned out to be a sensitive human observer, whose manuscripts are often based on precise and intensive social studies. "The war experiences and later, through thorough research, in-depth knowledge of everyday life in Berlin in various milieus are the basis for H's work", as the media journalist Egon Netenjakob wrote.

With his manuscripts, Hendrich repeatedly clarified the effect of circumstances on human behavior: Overtime (1965) reports on how a couple of parents neglect their son due to work overload. Der Sog (1967) describes the seemingly inevitable path of an old lady to suicide because she no longer sees any task in her life. Kinderehen (1970) recapitulates the reasons for early pregnancies of young girls in our society; For this purpose, Hendrich researched for almost a year at Berlin youth welfare offices. Knast (1972), on the other hand, used three case studies to show the reasons why convicted offenders often relapse after serving their prison sentences. In the Forecourt of Truth (1974), Hendrich, who lived in Berlin by choice, told a true story about the life of the Czech Jaroslav Wedrich, who was a key figure in the Berlin gang war in June 1970. Wedrich was sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter. Johannes Hendrich visited him in his cell and wrote his script based on the taped recordings. In the film Darkening (1976), the author reported how a series of murders was hushed up in Berlin during World War II because such a bloody act was simply not allowed to happen under the Nazi dictatorship. Hendrich's last work Zausel (1983), broadcast three years after his death, recapitulates three days of an elderly pensioner from Berlin-Kreuzberg, whose last reference person was his dog. This film was popular with both the audience and the press (FAZ: " The firewalls are falling like the trees in Chekhov's cherry orchard. Nevertheless, no elegy is told here, no ballad and no idyll, but a Berlin anecdote: soulful and self-sufficient through barreness “) Very well received.

Awards

In 1952 Johannes Hendrich was awarded the Carl Zuckmayer Prize, in 1970 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize .

Filmography

Screenplays for television films, unless otherwise stated

  • 1957: The borderline case of Bacall
  • 1958: Münchhausen in Africa (cinema)
  • 1958: Petersburg Nights (cinema)
  • 1958: Polikuschka (cinema)
  • 1958: Back from space (cinema)
  • 1959: And wouldn't have love
  • 1959: The Nobel Prize
  • 1960: The house full of guests
  • 1961: The paradise of Pont L'Eveque
  • 1965: overtime
  • 1967: the suction
  • 1968: the order
  • 1968: his dream of the Grand Prix (multi-part)
  • 1969: Fememord
  • 1969–70: Bergmann family (series)
  • 1970: child marriage
  • 1971: time to think about it
  • 1971: Crime scene: The Boss
  • 1972: Crime scene: rat nest
  • 1972: prison
  • 1973: eruption
  • 1974: In the forecourt of truth
  • 1976: blackout
  • 1977: Pastor in Kreuzberg (series)
  • 1978: Heroin 4
  • 1978: The cure (series)
  • 1981: pseudonym Hans Fallada (documentary play)
  • 1983: Zausel (published posthumously)

Radio plays

  • 1953: The Old People (screenplay)
  • 1954: Minister of the New Method (screenplay)
  • 1954: Lauter Engel around Monsieur Jacques (screenplay)
  • 1954: Zone border bus Helmstedt (screenplay)
  • 1955: A gondola in Paris (screenplay)
  • 1955: Anesthesia (screenplay)
  • 1955: Nine and a half lines for Dr. Brasseur (screenplay)
  • 1955: And took them to Egypt (screenplay)
  • 1955: criminal record (screenplay)
  • 1956: The house full of guests (screenplay)
  • 1956: millions-with-gift (screenplay)
  • 1957: Münchhausen's rifle (screenplay)
  • 1957: Trip to Warensdorf (screenplay)
  • 1959: The Knight's Cross for Lieutenant Kern (screenplay)
  • 1960: Twenty Years of Two Thousand (screenplay)
  • 1961: Under the Wheels (screenplay)
  • 1961: How a person feels (screenplay)
  • 1962: The Pull (screenplay)
  • 1963: Suddenly the three of you (screenplay)
  • 1965: Conversation in the slipstream (script)
  • 1965: Taubenherbert (screenplay)
  • 1967: The Fall of Man (screenplay)
  • 1968: A Friendship Service (screenplay)
  • 1969: Speech Bubbles or Do You Know Where 200 Street Is (Writer and Director)
  • 1969: Like in a thriller (screenplay and direction)
  • 1969: transition (screenplay)
  • 1970: Dieter Schwenke for example (screenplay and direction)
  • 1974: Feuer in Hüsingen (screenplay and direction)
  • 1974: Hundstage (screenplay and direction)
  • 1980: Have you ever been tied to a chair? (Script and direction)

literature

  • Egon Netenjakob : TV film lexicon. Directors, authors, dramaturges 1952–1992. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 169–171.
  • Kürschner's Biographisches Theater-Handbuch , Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 268.
  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon , second volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 643.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Egon Netenjakob: TV film lexicon. Directors, authors, dramaturges 1952–1992. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 170
  2. ^ Spiegel report from November 25, 1974
personal data
SURNAME Hendrich, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, radio play and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Lotschnau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1980
Place of death Berlin (West)