Paul Hengge

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Paul Hengge (born May 12, 1930 in Vienna ; † June 7, 2015 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian writer , screenwriter and private scholar .

biography

Hengge was a graduate of the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna at the Max Reinhardt Seminar ; Subject: Direction 1952. In 1953 he worked as a director and author of radio plays and cultural-political broadcasts for the Rot-Weiß-Rot in Vienna (USFA) and Vorarlberg regional broadcasters (Radio Dornbirn). In 1954 he became artistic director of the “Theater am Parkring” in Vienna and took part in theater productions in Austria and Switzerland. After 1955 he worked on radio programs for RIAS Berlin in the series “Facts and Opinions” and “From the Zone for the Zone”.

In 1958 a nine-part radio series followed at RIAS Berlin against the depiction of National Socialism, World War II and developing countries in German school books after 1945; in cooperation with Horst Eckert, International Textbook Institute, Braunschweig under the editorship Herbert Kundler . From 1960 he was dramaturge and managing director of Bertelsmann television production.

In 1962 he worked as managing director of “Playhouse-Studio” and “Europa-Studio” at the Salzburg Festival . In 1964/65, after meeting Heinz Galinski , the chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, he decided to analyze early biblical history on the basis of the Hebrew texts that had been preserved. At the same time in Italy he took part in studies on the causes of the decline of social democracy and the success of the KPI after 1945.

From 1967/68 he was chief dramaturge and director at the Landestheater Salzburg. In order to finance the studies in biblical history and paleoanthropology , an exclusive contract as a screenwriter with Rialto Film with Horst Wendlandt was concluded in 1969/70 .

1977 followed the first publication of the basic ideas on the possibilities of translating the Hebrew text in the biblical canon at RIAS Berlin under the title "It is in the Bible". They showed the possibilities of changing the understanding of the text when using meanings given to the same Hebrew words in various other passages of the text in the conventional interpretation of the Bible. The simple-minded fable of the woman who was 'built' out of a man's rib became a description of the transition from animal to human living being (“procreation knowledge”).

Success as a writer and screenwriter then made it possible to continue and make progress in research and analysis of early biblical history and the hypotheses on paleoanthropology resulting from it. In 2006 there was an antithesis to the common hypothesis about evolution to humans (“How we humans became”).

Hengge lived in Berlin and Eisenstadt, Austria.

Awards and nominations

  • 1986 - Bitter Harvest , nomination for an Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Language Film"
  • 1989 - Hanussen , nomination for the Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Language Film"
  • 1990 - Der Rosengarten , Federal Film Award nomination and Golden Globe nomination for the leading actress Liv Ulmann.
  • 1992 - Hitler Youth Salomon (Europe, Europe) , Golden Globe as “Best Foreign Language Film” and nomination for an Oscar in the “Best Screenplay” category. Despite the nomination, the author withdrew his name because the portrayal of the Jew Perel and his German helpers did not do justice to their actual fate.
  • 1998 - The verdict , awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize, the Golden Lion and the Bavarian Television Prize, Telestar nomination and International Emmy Award nomination in the "Best Drama" category.

Publications

Early Biblical History, Paleoanthropology

  • 1979 - The Bible Correction (Adam also had a mother) Verlag Orac, Vienna
  • 1980 - Der Vater Verlag Orac, Vienna
  • 1993 - It is in the Bible Further Development of Research in the Old Testament, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne
  • 2000 - Adam also had a mother (Bible Correction I - AT) . Traces of an old tradition in the 5 books of the Prophet Moses. ISBN 3-8311-1148-0
  • 2000 - Joseph thought to leave Mary (Bible Correction II - NT) . The tradition of shepherds in the New Testament of the Bible. ISBN 3-8311-1149-9
  • 2006 - The Birth of Love (PM) Hypothesis on the animal-human transition field
  • 2008 - How we became humans About the miracle that women performed in evolution into humans.

Film scripts and adaptations

TV scripts and direction

Stage plays

  • Life went on (first performance in Berlin in 1957 under the title "Der Sender Schweigt")
  • There can be no acquittal (1993 stage version "Der Rosengarten", world premiere in Baden-Baden)
  • The flapping of the wings of the butterfly (1994 premiere in Baden-Baden)
  • The Judgment (1999 premiere in Hamburg)
  • L´escale (The Judgment), (2006 French premiere Paris, Theater La Bruyere)

Novels

  • Der Rosengarten (1989) Verlag Zsolnay, Vienna
  • The judgment (1998) Verlag DTV, Munich
  • How Victor Kaufmann managed to survive Adolf Hitler after all (2009) ISBN 978-3-7844-3192-5

Radio plays

  • Hitler Youth Salomon (NDR original sound Sally Perel, 1986)
  • It was Christmas (RIAS Berlin)
  • Paths without dreams (NDR - Fates 1945)
  • Rescuing the rescuer from the rescuers (NDR - thoughts on Oscar Schindler)
  • A mandatory mandate (NDR - The Child Murder from Bullenhuser Damm)
  • Transit (RIAS Berlin)

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