Kurd E. Heyne

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Kurd Erich Heyne (born October 3, 1906 in Braunschweig ; † May 7, 1961 in Lucerne ) was a German actor , director , cabaret artist and author .

Life

Heyne passed his Abitur in 1926 at the secondary school in Braunschweig and was already playing intensive school theater during this time, including with Norbert Schultze . He studied philology in Göttingen and Berlin, and later in Munich. The son of an auditor had his first successes as a vocal writer and, together with Helmut Käutner and Bobby Todd , he co-founded the cabaret group Die vier Nachrichtener . After they were banned in 1935, he switched to writing plays for the theater. To how we live , he also composed the music itself. He also wrote several pieces together with Helmut Käutner, partly together with Bernhard Eichhorn , as well as A man comes to the city with Werner Finck .

After his emigration to Switzerland in 1938, Heyne established himself as an actor and director at the Basel City Theater , where he stayed for life. In addition, he did intensive radio play work for Swiss radio , and again for German stations after the war. The comedy Der Apfel ist ab , which Heyne co-wrote in the days of the news , was filmed by Käutner in Germany in 1948 under the title Der Apfel ist ab .

literature

Publications

  • Kurd Erich Heyne: deer killer. Ariola GmbH, Gütersloh around 1958, DNB 452007771 (speech plate, radio play).
  • Kurd Erich Heyne: Give me the spear, Penelope! Memories of the news. Hamburg 1965, DNB 577783602 (record).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Bein et al. (Ed.): Neue Oberschule 1828–1978. Braunschweig 1978, DNB 900058080 .
personal data
SURNAME Heyne, Kurd E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyne, Kurd Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, cabaret artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1961
Place of death Lucerne