Oswalt Kolle

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Oswalt Kolle (born October 2, 1928 in Kiel , † September 24, 2010 in Amsterdam ) was a German-Dutch journalist , author and film producer who became known in German-speaking countries for his films about sexual education . Kolle had lived in Amsterdam since 1969 and was a Dutch citizen.

Life

Oswalt Kolle was a son of the renowned psychiatrist Kurt Kolle . Against his father's wish to become a doctor as well, Kolle completed an apprenticeship in agriculture after the Second World War , but then came to journalism through personal circumstances. He began his writing activity as a trainee at the Frankfurter Neue Presse . He first made a name for himself as a film journalist, became local manager of the Frankfurt night edition in 1951 and worked for the specialist magazine Filmblätter until 1953 , before he joined the newly founded Bild in Hamburg and wrote gossip stories for them. “Bild, I noticed quickly, was more of a fairy tale sheet than a newspaper,” he once remarked in context. After leaving there in 1955, he wrote articles about celebrities for the Berlin BZ , where he was cultural director from 1955 to 1959. He later became deputy editor-in-chief of Star Revue ( Die Film- und Fernsehzeitschrift ), a magazine that belonged to Spiegel-Verlag from 1955 to 1960 .

In the 1960s and 1970s, Kolle was instrumental in popularizing sexual education. He wrote educational series for magazines such as Quick and Neue Revue . He has also published books and other publications on the subject of sexuality . Your child, the unknown being was Kolle's first successful book, his most important books have been translated into several languages ​​and have also been internationally successful. At that time he worked closely with Josef von Ferenczy and worked for him as an author. He wrote his book The Miracle of Love in 1968, a paperback of the same title was published by Heyne in 1971.

Between 1968 and 1972 Kolle produced educational films. Before his first film Das Wunder der Liebe was released for cinemas in Germany, Kolle had to negotiate for days with censors from the Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK). Every single scene was discussed. One of the censors uttered the sentence that became famous in the following years: "Mr. Kolle, you want to turn the whole world upside down, now even the woman should be on top!" The educational films often brought him the accusation of being against custom and morality to violate, however, were commercial successes. 140 million viewers worldwide saw the films. It was also unusual that he played with his wife, daughter and son in one of his educational films and had himself and his family photographed on the nude beach on Sylt for a magazine. With his love school he created a television series for sexual education. Kolle also wrote popular novels such as Der Psychiater , Der Clan and Sylter Sommer . He developed the idea for the entertainment series Sylt Stories for RTL . He also revised the scripts of his educational films, which the private television station successfully broadcast in 1997.

Kolle was a member of the FDP until the 1980s and joined the left-wing liberal D66 in his adopted home, the Netherlands . In 1996, Kolle, who has openly professed his bisexuality since the 1990s , took part in the 4th International Bisexual Symposium (IBIS) in Berlin. The motto of the event was "The many faces of bisexuality - diversity of bisexual relationships". Other participants were u. a. Fritz Klein and Erwin J. Haeberle .

In 2000 he was honored by the German Society for Social Science Sex Research (DGSS) with the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for Sexual Reform. On September 1, 2008, Kolle's autobiography was published by Rowohlt Verlag under the title I am so free. My life , in which he wrote, among other things, about euthanasia for his wife with cancer. In 2010 he was honored with the IBKA Prize for his services to sexual self-determination. Kolle worked as a publicist until his death. Most recently, he dealt with topics such as current political events and sexuality in old age . His last book, which he called his legacy , is called Sex: The 10 Deadly Sins (2011). Together with the sex therapist and author Beatrice Wagner, he used ten true stories to describe what today still leads to displeasure, injuries and falling apart in couple and sex life. Kolle died after completing the manuscript. Kolle was against pornography .

He had three children with his wife Marlies († 2000), with whom he had been married since 1953. Kolle lived with his wife in an " open marriage " for 47 years . Romy Schneider was among his numerous affairs . After the death of his wife, he was in a relationship with the Dutch woman Jose del Ferro.

Books (selection)

  • Man does not live on money alone. Marion von Schröder, 1967.
  • Your child, the unknown being. Heyne, 1969.
  • I love you - I hate you. HESTIA / VPM, 1983, ISBN 3-7770-0226-7 .
  • Your man, the unknown being. SUEDWEST /VLGSHS.GOETHEST, 1984.
  • Your wife, the unknown being. SUEDWEST /VLGSHS.GOETHEST 1984.
  • I love how I want to love. HEYNE WILHELM, 1986, ISBN 3-453-01568-1 .
  • Love doesn't age. Econ TB., 1997, ISBN 3-612-26423-0 .
  • I love you - i hate you. I love how I want to love. Area, 2003 ISBN 3-89996-078-5 .
  • I'm so free. Rowohlt Berlin, 2008 ISBN 978-3-87134-618-7 .
  • So love stays young. Ramlow-Klöppel, Heidi, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939385-04-2 .
  • SEX - The 10 Deadly Sins. Gräfe and Unzer Edition, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8338-2238-4 .

Filmography

Oswalt Kolle was the scriptwriter of the following documentaries , some of which he also directed:

Documentary film

  • Oswalt Kolle - Sex for Germany . Film portrait for the 80th birthday of Lutz G. Wetzel . TV documentary, Germany 2008 ( NDR ), 43 minutes

Filming of his life

Awards

literature

  • Franziska Gätcke: “You can't learn love, but sexuality can!” The educational films by Oswalt Kolle. In: tv discurs. Responsibility in Audiovisual Media. Vol. 14, No. 4, 2010, pp. 56-61. on-line

Web links

Wikiquote: Oswalt Kolle  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Laudation for Oswalt Kolle by Rolf Gindorf , Archive for Sexology of the Humboldt University in Berlin .
  2. ↑ The important thing is: What do you want? Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ Recon Oswalt Kolle dead: An obituary B.Z. from October 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ Alexander Antonoff: The Eleventh Commandment - Konsalik , Kolle and the communicator : The philosophy of the media manager Josef von Ferenczy , 25 September 2000 under welt.de .
  5. ^ A b c d Henryk M. Broder: Obituary Oswalt Kolle 1928 to 2010. In: Der Spiegel . 2010/40: 164.
  6. ↑ Cornelia Kolle was ashamed of her nude photos on Focus Online on May 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ Oswalt Kolle is dead on Spiegel Online from October 1, 2010.
  8. ↑ Der Aufklärer , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 1, 2010.
  9. ↑ Oswalt Kolle writes about euthanasia for wife  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rheinische Post from July 22, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kolle, Oswalt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2010
Place of death Amsterdam