Eckart Heinze
Eckart Heinze , pseudonym Michael Mansfeld , (born February 4, 1922 in Leszno (German: Lissa, formerly Posen Province ), † May 26, 1979 in Rosenheim ) was a German journalist and writer .
Life
The son of a director of a lignite mine attended school in Halle an der Saale from 1928 to 1934 . Then he attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Berlin from 1934 to 1939 . He began studying theater studies and was an acting student at the same time. In 1941 he was drafted into the military and served as a soldier in the Soviet Union , Italy and France . He was wounded nine times and honored thirteen times. After July 20, 1944 , he was briefly imprisoned for alleged links to the military resistance.
As a reserve lieutenant , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets at the end of the war . He was able to escape from it and became an interpreter in a DP camp for liberated foreign workers. He then earned his living in some theater-related professions and switched to journalism in 1949 .
As a journalist, Eckart Heinze wrote under the pseudonym Michael Mansfeld. In September 1951, for example, a series of articles in the Frankfurter Rundschau against the employment of former Nazi functionaries in the then Foreign Office . He also incorporated the results of his research into this series into his novel Bonn, Koblenzer Straße (1967), in which he describes the involvement of numerous employees of the diplomatic service in National Socialism with little veil. In it, Heinze also sharply criticizes the entire foreign and security policy orientation of Konrad Adenauer's policy , especially the establishment and technical equipment of the Bundeswehr .
Various scripts written by Eckart Heinze (partly in collaboration with others such as his wife Gerda Corbett ) were used for the production of films .
Michael Mansfeld is not to be confused with the GDR scriptwriter Michel Mansfeld .
Publications
Scripts
- 1956: The marriage of Dr. med. Danwitz
- 1959: The Bridge (1959)
- 1961: The transport
- 1965: Witness from Hell
- 1969: Sir Basil Zaharoff - Realtor of Death (television play)
- 1969: Naval Mutiny 1917 (TV play)
- 1972: Max Hölz. A German lesson (television play)
- 1973: Actually, I was scared ... - The story of an unusual hero (TV play)
- 1975: Locker 763 (TV play)
- 1978: 1982: Gutenbach (TV play)
Book publications
- The course is wrong . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1956.
- I think of Germany I . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1956.
- Do not be subject to any . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1957.
- I think of Germany II . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1959.
- Bonn, Koblenzer Strasse . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1967.
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 236 (Lemma Michael Mansfeld).
Web links
- Michael Mansfeld in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Michael Mansfeld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wavering figures from the Nazi era: FR of October 27, 2010
- ↑ The Spiegel reveals some of the people portrayed in Bonn, Koblenzer Strasse in the relevant article Silbernes Paulchen : Issue 3/68 of January 15, 1968, p. 23f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinze, Eckart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mansfeld, Michael (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leszno (Eng. Lissa, formerly Posen Province) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1979 |
| Place of death | Rosenheim |