Paul Kohl (writer)

Paul Kohl (* 1937 in Cologne ) is a German writer and author of radio plays and radio features .

Life

The author Paul Kohl was born in Cologne in 1937 and did an apprenticeship as a bookseller after graduating from school . He then studied theater studies and German studies in Cologne and Vienna from 1961 to 1965 and was a dramaturge and director at various theaters .

Since 1965 he has produced numerous works, most of them for the radio . He wrote radio plays, features and children's plays and also made numerous translations.

For many years he has been interested in the time of the Third Reich and the war crimes of the Schutzstaffel and the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union during the Second World War . In 1985 he went on a trip to the Soviet Union and researched the facts for his non-fiction book The War of the German Wehrmacht and the Police 1941–1944 with the help of survivors . Since he had difficulty finding a publisher, it was not published until ten years after the trip.

In 2001 his first novel Greetings from Minsk was published , for which he has done extensive research since 1985.

Paul worked as a translator and author in Brussels from 1965 to 1970 and has lived in Berlin since 1970.

Works

Book publications

• Get up, it's war: the German attack on the Soviet Union. a film based on the book I wonder why I'm still alive. Manuscript for the 6-part television series by Südwestfunk by Hartmut Kaminski. TR-Verlags-Union, Munich 1991.
• The war of the German armed forces and the police 1941–1944: Soviet survivors report. With an essay by Wolfram Wette. Fischer-TB-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12306-2 .
• Greetings from Minsk. Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-426-19560-7 .
• The Trostenets extermination camp: eyewitness reports and documents. International education u. Meeting work, Dortmund 2003, ISBN 978-3-935950-07-7 .
• Night over Cologne. Cologne Crime Classic. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89705-832-3 .
• Nazi gold. Detective novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-95451-033-7 .
• with Nadia Boegli: 111 places in Berlin on the trail of the Nazi era. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-220-1 .
• with Nadia Boegli: 111 Places in Berlin on the Trails of the Nazis. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-323-9 .
• Goethe's corpses . Detective novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-716-9 .
• Hitler's prophet . Detective novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0189-2 .
• The Jew, the Nazi and his murderess . historical novel. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0307-0 .

Radio work

• The Golem radio play based on Gustav Meyrink , WDR 1964, directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
• The appointment. Radio play, directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , WDR 1966
• The infernals and their jobs - all about devils. Feature, RIAS 1976.
• ... and then I got behind the wheel and drove off. Original audio play (together with Ute Flach), director: Heiner Schmidt , HR 1980
• Robber with a trade license - from Gay's "Beggar's Opera" to Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" , Feature, RIAS Berlin 1981.
• I wanted to sit down on the street and start crying. Original audio play, directed by Paul Kohl, HR 1983.
• Fulda-Gap or The first battle of the next war. Original audio play, directed by Paul Kohl, HR 1983.
• Jörg Advice. Radio play, directed by Ferdinand Ludwig, HR / NDR 1986.
• Get up, it's war - From the attack on the Soviet Union - Documents and eyewitness accounts. Feature, director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , SFB / DLF / NDR / RB / SWF 1986
• The depot. Feature, directed by Ferdinand Ludwig, HR / SWF / WDR 1988.
• My father's fat. Radio play, directed by Peter Groeger , Funkhaus Berlin / RB 1991
• The service. Radio play, directed by Stefanie Hoster, SR 1991.
• Hunter schnitzel. Detective radio play , director: Joachim Staritz , HR 1992
• Grim fairy tales. Feature, SFB / DS-Kultur 1992.
• The trowel in the hand - the plumb bob in the head, two bricklayers build again , feature, director: Sabine Ranzinger, MDR 1992.
• Free ride - car speeders in East Germany. Feature, directed by Gerda Zschiedrich, DS-Kultur 1993.
• Zyklon B - a product from Dessau , feature, director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch , MDR 1993
• In memoriam: Stauffenberg - Career of a Militarist , Feature, NDR 1994.
• Circular trip - Reinhard Höppner in portrait , Feature, MDR 1997.
• "We definitely know who the perpetrators were" - the Herrhausen assassination attempt - reconstruction of a blurring of traces Feature, directed by Axel Scheibchen, DLF / SR / WDR / SFB 1997.
• Championship in curve technology - How the billion dollar loan was awarded to the GDR , feature, director: Rainer Schwarz , MDR 1998
• The Herbert Häber case - From the Politburo to Psychiatry , Feature, Director: Holger Jackisch , MDR / DLF 1999
• The furnace builder for the final solution - The Topf & Sons company, Erfurt , feature, director: Axel Scheibchen , DLF / MDR 2001
• Ground Zero , Feature, Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , SFB-ORB 2002
• Confuse, Deceive, Cover Up - The Scandal of Bankgesellschaft Berlin , Feature, Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , RBB 2003
• Operation area BRD - West German Stasi employees on behalf of the GDR , feature, director: Sabine Ranzinger, MDR 2004.
• Manfred von Ardenne - Career of a Scientist , Feature, Director: Nikolai von Koslowski , MDR 2007
• When children leave and a world goes out ... - The deportation of Cologne children to Minsk , Feature, DLF 2007.
• Investigations stopped - The Silence of Elfriede R. Feature, Director: Sabine Ranzinger, MDR 2010.

price

• 2014: Axel Eggebrecht Prize for his life's work as an author of radio documentaries

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Kohl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Köhler : Hitler left - they stayed. KVV specifically, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930786-04-4 , p. 127
2. ↑ Ingo Petz: Overgrown with grass. A memorial is to finally commemorate the former Nazi extermination site of Maly Trostinez near Minsk. In: FAZ. July 16, 2013, p. 28.
3. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/attentat-auf-alfred-herrhausen-wir-wissen-definitiv-wer-die.1247.de.html?dram:article_id=299138 - Manuscript (PDF; 93 kB, 27 p .)
4. ↑ Frank Kaspar: The New Yorkers tell the story of terror. Some answers and more questions: Acoustic afterimages of the tragedy of September 11th on the radio. In: FAZ, September 7, 2002, p. 40.