Patrick Hamilton (writer)
Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton (born March 17, 1904 in Hassocks, Sussex , † September 23, 1962 in Sheringham , Norfolk ) was an English writer .
Life
After attending Westminster School and a brief acting career, he became a successful novelist in the 1920s. He also wrote the plays The Duke in Darkness , The Man Upstairs , Gaslight (known in America as Angel Street ) and Rope (also known as Rope's End and made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948 ; German title of the film: Cocktail für eine Leiche ). His novel Hangover Square, published in 1941, is set in a London pub district in 1939.
Works (selection)
- Rope , play, 1929 (dramatization of a murder committed in 1924 by Leopold and Loeb )
- Gaslight , play, 1938
- Übers. Miriam Mandelkow: Hangover Square . Novel. Dörlemann Verlag , Zurich 2005 ISBN 978-3-908777-04-5
- Übers. Miriam Mandelkow: Slaves of Solitude . Novel. Dörlemann, 2006 ISBN 978-3-908777-20-5
Film adaptations
- 1940: Gaslight ( Gaslight )
- 1943: Lady Alquist's house (after Gaslight )
- 1948: Cocktail for a corpse
- 1960: gas light
- 1963: School of the Sweet Life ( Bitter Harvest )
- 1965: Nattmara - The Killer of Stockholm ( Nattmara )
Audio book
- Threat by Moonlight by Patrick Hamilton , detective radio play with Eberhard Esche , Otto Sander and Gudrun Ritter , director: Klaus Zippel , 57 min, MDR 1992; ZYX Music 2018 ISBN 978-3-95995-202-6 (CD)
literature
- Nigel Jones: Through a glass darkly: the life of Patrick Hamilton . Black Spring, London 2008 ISBN 978-0-948238-39-0
- Bruce Hamilton: The light went out: the life of Patrick Hamilton . Constable, London 1972 ISBN 0-09-458700-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrick Hamilton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait at Perlentaucher.de
- Review of Hangover Square in the ARD broadcast fresh off the press from March 13, 2005 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Patrick Hamilton in theInternet Movie Database(English)
notes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamilton, Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hassocks, Sussex |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1962 |
| Place of death | Sheringham , Norfolk |