Otto Bonhoff

Otto Bonhoff (born February 21, 1931 in Leipzig ; † January 7, 2001 ) was a German writer .

Life

Bonhoff was born the son of a theologian . After the end of the war he worked in an amateur play group of the anti-fascist youth . With a scholarship from the FDJ Bonhoff came to the Leipzig University of Music and was able to study drama there. A first engagement took place at the former Borna District Theater , which brought Bonhoff to the realization that the stage could not be his future.

He took up journalism training and became a volunteer for Thuringian Latest News . In addition, he took on other reporting tasks for other editorial offices. Bonhoff went from daily journalism to literary and dramaturgical work. "It attracted me to think beyond the authentic case, the concrete person and his situation, to package actual events in game actions."

In the field of tension literature with an authentic background, he finally found his decisive field of activity. Bonhoff became a freelance writer and from 1961 wrote short stories, novels, radio plays and television films. Books and films that he wrote with the like-minded author Herbert Schauer are particularly popular .

Otto Bonhoff was born with the director Ursula Bonhoff . Obuch married. After a long and serious illness, he died shortly before his 70th birthday on January 7, 2001.

Works

Books

• Shadow over Notre Dame (with Herbert Schauer ), GDR military publisher , Berlin, 1967
• Avengers, Rescuers and Rapiers (with Herbert Schauer), GDR Military Publishing House, Berlin, 1969
• Assassination attempt in Colorado - narratives based on facts, Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin, 1971
• Cloudless sky over all of Spain (with Herbert Schauer), Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1971
• The mannequins of Mr. Cordage, military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin, 1972
• Steps in the Storm (editor), "Events-Facts-Connections" series, GDR Military Publishing House, Berlin, 1974
• Visit from the Fog (utopian novel), Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1974, book version of the play of the same name, which premiered in 1973
• Post-editing - novel based on facts, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1975
• The invisible visor (with Herbert Schauer), four-part series of novels (“Password forget-me-not”, “The Secret of the Masks”, “Depot in the Skagerrak”, “The Peacock Has Seven Eyes”), East German Military Publishing House, Berlin, 1975–1980
• Beach fire at night, GDR Military Publishing House, Berlin, 1978
• Like creeping poison, military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin, 1978
• The killing wave, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1979
• Patent theft on the Valentine, Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin, 1982
• In the Net of Crime, New Life Publishing House, Berlin, 1983
• Playing with the kite, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1984
• Ernst Thälmann - Filmszenarium (with E. Selbmann and G. Schiemann), Berlin, 1986
• At your own risk, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1989
• The last meeting, military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin, 1989
• Lock without a key, Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig, 1990
• A funeral pyre for the witch, Brandenburg publishing house, Berlin, 1990

Radio plays

• 1970: The stolen Rembrandt
• 1971: In matter of Herr Liebknecht
• 1971: The English portfolio
• 1971: The boomerang
• 1972: Argo 71
• 1974: Visit from the fog

Working for television (selection)

• 1966: Shadows over Notre Dame
• 1971: Cloudless sky over all of Spain
• The invisible visor
  • 1973: The Roman Way
  • 1973: The nest in the jungle
  • 1973: The moated castle
  • 1975: a strange attack
  • 1975: The secret of the mask
  • 1975: Mystery of the Fjord
  • 1975: Depot in the Skagerrak
  • 1976: Murderers don't take a break
  • 1976: The peacock has seven eyes
• 1979: Police Call 110: Deadly Illusion (TV series)
• 1981: Little Doctor Virchow
• 1981: Police Call 110: The Silent One (TV series)
• 1982: Avengers, Saviors and Rapiers
• 1983: Application for adoption
• 1986: Ernst Thälmann
• 1987: The last meeting
• 1990: Police call 110: Payday (TV series)

literature

• Hartmut Mechtel : Otto Bonhoff . In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , p. 107f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Bonhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Otto Bonhoff at Open Library
• Short biography at epilog.de
• Otto Bonhoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Portrait of Ursula and Otto Bonhoff. In: FF here, 22/1987, page 47