Leopold Ahlsen
Leopold Ahlsen (born January 12, 1927 in Munich ; † January 10, 2018 there ; actually: Helmut Alzmann ) was a German writer and theater director .
Live and act
Ahlsen was born the son of civil servant Max Alzmann and Margarete Alzmann. He wrote his first pieces while still at school. In 1943 he became an air force helper . In the last weeks of the war he was still on the front line. After attending secondary school, he studied German language and literature, philosophy and theater studies in Munich from 1945 and completed acting training at the German Drama School in Munich. After completing his studies, he initially worked as an actor and director from 1947 to 1949 at various tour theaters in southern Germany, but switched to Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1949 , where he worked as a lecturer in the radio plays department until 1960.
His play of the same name, based on the radio play Philemon and Baucis broadcast in 1955, was popular in the second half of the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s . Ahlsen transfers the myth of the old married couple, handed down by Ovid in the Metamorphoses , to the year 1944, in Greece occupied by German troops. The two old people, Nikolas and Marulja, care for and hide three injured German soldiers out of mercy. When they are discovered, a merciless partisan leader has the couple sentenced as traitors and hanged. According to their last wish, they die together.
From around 1960 onwards, Leopold Ahlsen worked as a freelance writer. Since 1968 he has mainly worked for television. In 1968 his first novel The Gockel vom golden spur appeared .
Leopold Ahlsen has written numerous radio and television plays, dramas and school radio programs. Particularly well-known in the 1970s were the multi-part television films The strange life story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck , Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous Simplizissimus and Wallenstein , for which he wrote the scripts. In 1984 he created a Bavarian version of Der zerbrochne Krug for the Munich Volkstheater . From 1971 he was a member of the PEN Center Germany and a member of the Munich tower scribe .
He was married to Ruth, b. Walkway.
Works (selection)
- Between the Shores (1952, play)
- Duty to Sin (1952, play)
- Wolfszeit (1954, play)
- The trees stand outside (1955, initially as a radio play, world premiere of the theater version in 1956 in Munich)
- Philemon and Baucis (1956; first performance 1956 at the Münchner Kammerspiele )
- Raskolnikoff (first performance in 1960 in the Schloßparktheater Berlin, title role: Klaus Kammer )
- You Will Die, Sire (1964, play)
- Poor Man Luther (1967, play based on the 1965 television play)
- The rooster from the golden spur alias Jakob Hyronimus C. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung GmbH, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-485-00409-X
- From loom to world power . Novel based on the television film From Loom to World Power . Publishing house Bayernland, Dachau 1983, ISBN 3-922394-26-4
- The Wiesingers (1984)
Filmography
- 1956: Philemon and Baucis
- 1958: ... and nothing but the truth - (based on The Deruga case by Ricarda Huch )
- 1959: Crime and Punishment - (after Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky )
- 1960: Love hangs on the gallows (after Philemon and Baucis )
- 1961: Zanzibar - (after Zanzibar or the last reason by Alfred Andersch )
- 1962: All power on earth
- 1963: Clothes make the man - (after clothes make the man by Gottfried Keller )
- 1964: You are going to die, sire
- 1965: The poor man Luther
- 1965: Der Ruepp - (after Der Ruepp by Ludwig Thoma )
- 1968: Berliner Antigone - (based on Die Berliner Antigone by Rolf Hochhuth )
- 1969: Boredom - (based on a story by Maxim Gorki )
- 1970: People - (after -been people of Maxim Gorky )
- 1971: Die - (after the death of Arthur Schnitzler )
- 1971: Pear tree and Hollerstauden - (based on a folk piece by Joseph Maria Lutz )
- 1972: grease eyes
- 1973: The strange life story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
- 1973: A Selfish Love - (after Sons and Lovers of DH Lawrence )
- 1974: Death in Astapowo
- 1975: Der Wittiber - (after Der Wittiber by Ludwig Thoma )
- 1975: Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous simplicity
- 1977: The Demons - (based on The Demons by Fjodor Dostojewski )
- 1978: The hard trade - (based on a novel by Oskar Maria Graf )
- 1978: Wallenstein - (after Wallenstein by Golo Mann )
- 1978: The big carp Ferdinand and other Christmas stories
- 1978–1989: The Old One (7 episodes)
- 1980: defects
- 1980: Das Fräulein - (based on Das Fräulein by Ivo Andrić )
- 1980: A Globetrotter's Cruises - (based on short stories by W. Somerset Maugham )
- 1981: François Villon
- 1982: The good-natured grumbler
- 1983: Deep Water - (based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith )
- 1983: From loom to world power - (after buying you an emperor from Günter Ogger )
- 1984: The Wiesingers
- 1991: Island of Dreams : Jealousy
- 1994: At home in this city
- 2003: The Broken Jug - (based on The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist )
Radio plays
- 1951: Die Zeit and the Herr Adular Lehmann - Director: Kurt Wilhelm
- 1952: Nicki and Paradise in Yellow - speaker and director: Fritz Benscher
- 1955: Philemon and Baucis (version of the Bavarian Radio) - Director: Walter Ohm
- 1955: Philemon and Baucis (version of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
- 1957: The Ballad of Half a Century - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1959: The strong trunk - Director: Edmund Steinberger
- 1961: All the power of the earth - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1962: Raskolnikoff (adaptation of the novel Guilt and Atonement by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski ) - Director: Hermann Wenninger
- 1964: Death of a King - Director: Heinz von Cramer
- 1966: The poor man Luther - Director: Hermann Wenninger
- 1969: Fettaugen - Director: Walter Netzsch
- 1970: Memoirs - Director: Hermann Wenninger
- 1972: The imaginary sick (literary source: The imaginary sick by Jean Baptiste Molière ) - Director: Wolf Euba
- 2002: The pact with the demon - little brother and sister - director: Buschi Luginbühl
Awards
- 1955: Gerhart Hauptmann Prize of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin
- 1955: Radio play award of the war blind for Philemon and Baucis
- 1957: Schiller Award Baden-Württemberg
- 1968: Golden Screen
- 1971: Silver nymph Monte Carlo
- 1990: Bavarian poet thaler
literature
- Günter Helmes : "My defiance has embraced my tiredness / my strength is married to my weakness." The television play "Berliner Antigone" (1968) by Leopold Ahlsen and Rainer Wolffhardt and its pre-texts . In: Günter Helmes (Ed.): "Carefully expose layer by layer." Rainer Wolffhardt's directorial work . Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2012, pp. 113–145. ISBN 978-3-86815-553-2 .
- Henning v. Vogelsang and Timo Fehrensen: Leopold Ahlsen. From Dostoevsky to Lowitz . Bucherverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-99018-251-2 .
- Manfred Durzak : literature on the screen. Analyzes and discussions with Leopold Ahlsen, Rainer Erler, Dieter Forte, Walter Kempowski, Heinar Kipphardt, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Dieter Wellershoff . In: Media in Research and Education. Serie A . tape 28 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-484-34028-2 , chapter "The media author and his work experience: Conversation with Leopold Ahlsen" and "The advocate of literature in the media apparatus. On the television works of Leopold Ahlsen", p. 233-276 .
Web links
- Leopold Ahlsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Leopold Ahlsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leopold Ahlsen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Leopold Ahlsen in the Bavarian literature portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 13, 2018 Helmut Alzmann alias Leopold Ahlsen
- ↑ Leopold Ahlsen. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 8.
- ^ Leopold Ahlsen in the literature portal Bavaria.
- ^ Walter Urbanek: German literature. The 19th and 20th centuries. Epochs, shapes, designs . CC Buchner, Bamberg, 3rd, verb. Ed. 1974. p. 542.
- ^ Leopold Ahlsen in the literature portal Bavaria.
- ↑ The script of episode 101 His first case - the first episode with Chief Inspector Kress - was written by Leopold Ahlsen, Volker Vogeler and Günter Gräwert under the common pseudonym Tobias Bertram. ( The Old Man. 1986. In: . Encyclopedia of German crime writers Reinhard Jahn, accessed on 12 January 2018 . )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ahlsen, Leopold |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alzmann, Helmut (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2018 |
Place of death | Munich |