Peter Brock (writer)

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Peter Brock (born August 6, 1916 in Bismarckhütte as Rudolf Brock ; † September 28, 1982 in Teltow ) was a German writer who also used the pseudonym Peter Korb .

Life

Peter Brock first studied German and then at the Johannes R. Becher Institute in Leipzig . He worked as a publishing editor in Halle and from 1960 lived in the Seehof district of Teltow . He began his career with the dramatization of literary models for various television films, in which he occasionally worked as a supporting actor, so in 1965 he took over the role of lay judge in Lots Weib .

Brock wrote several children's books, of which Gestatten - Oskar (stories about a particularly cheeky student) was the best known, but also Der kleine Kuno (little boy runs away from home to find out what adults do at night and ends up in a Paul Robeson concert) and Die Wunderbrille (poor pupil gets glasses with which he can see around the corner) were very popular. Little Kuno was first released in 1959 as a DEFA film by Kurt Jung-Alsen .

He was married to Rut Brock, to whom he also dedicated his children's book Ich bin die Nele . It was filmed in 1978 under the title A Sunday Child That Sometimes Crazy .

Works (selection)

  • The Hunt for Saint John, Verlag E. Löpf-Benz, Rorschach , 1937
  • The Capitoline Venus - The Thunderstorm. One-act play after Mark Twain , 1954
  • Paddy Glück , play, 1960
  • Kisses and the General , Roman, 1961 (made into a film by Wolfgang Bartsch in the same year )
  • Little Kuno , Berlin 1963
  • The miracle glasses , 1965
  • Play yourself the piano, Jeannette , 1966
  • Permit - Oskar , 1969 (new edition in LEIV, Leipzig 2008)
  • Ich bin die Nele , 1975 (new edition in LEIV, Leipzig 2007; also on CD, read by Petra Schmidt-Schaller , 2009)
  • Bine and the Parkoma , Berlin 1978
  • The magic telephone , Berlin 1980

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1968: The bet dog - director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - radio of the GDR )
  • 1969: The engagement - director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - radio of the GDR)
  • 1970: The own stove - Director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice No. 27 - Broadcasting of the GDR)

As editor (selection)

  • Happy village evening , 1954
  • Wonderful White Night (together with Rut Brock), Berlin 1955
  • When the ice breaks , 1955

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Brock: The hunt for St. John. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Brock, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brock, Rudolf Peter (full name); Brock, Rudolf; Korb, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bismarckhütte
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1982
Place of death Teltow