Ralph Wiener

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Ralph Wiener (born May 15, 1924 as Felix Ecke in Baden , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian - German lawyer , cabaret artist and writer .

Life

The son of the Austrian writer Felix Parker grew up in Eisleben and Vienna . After 1945 he was the founder and director of the first German post-war theater ( Bürgerertheater Eisleben ). From 1946 to 1950 he studied law, then was a trainee lawyer and from 1953 a lawyer. He was a founding member of the GDR's first college of lawyers. In 1982 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD and habilitation in the field of legal history (Dr. sc. jur.)

In literary terms he is mainly active in the cheerful genre, as a playwright and also as a cabaret artist. He wrote for Berliner Distel , Eulenspiegel and other magazines.

Wiener also dealt with the nature and characteristics of the political joke before and after 1945 in Germany. His work A look back looks back on the Third Reich in a conversation between two generations.

Wiener lives in Eisleben , has been widowed since 2014 and has two adult sons.

Works

  • Viennese stories. Berlin 1961.
  • Stories of my wife. Comedy, 1962.
  • Ask Sibylle. Comedy, 1964.
  • Is that right? Cheerful stories. Rudolstadt 1972.
  • A heavenly evening. Comedy, 1974.
  • Not a word about raspberries. Cheerful stories. Hall 1979.
  • When laughter was fatal Memories and Facts 1933–1945. Rudolstadt 1988.
  • Dangerous laugh. Black humor in the Third Reich. Reinbek 1994.
  • The laughing Schopenhauer. A harvest of flowers. Leipzig 1993 and 1996, paperback edition Leipzig 2003.
  • Laughter between Harz and Saale. Cheerful stories. Hall 1996.
  • Schmunzelmarkt. Cheerful stories. Hall 1996.
  • Laugh with Schwejk. Clever and mischievous. Halle-Zurich 1999.
  • The four annual bankruptcies. Funny stories. Berlin 1999.
  • A golden leaf is still hanging in my locker. Poems. Hall 2002.
  • Behind closed hands. The political joke in Germany. Leipzig 2003.
  • Small city really big. On the history of the first German post-war theater. Long arch 2007.
  • A look back. Hall 2007.
  • An eyewitness tells. Hall 2007.
  • Solo for strings. Small humorous stories. Leipzig 2009.
  • The girls from Cadiz. A cheerful novel in verse. Hall 2011.
  • The foundation of the Eisleben Citizens' Theater. Hall 2012.
  • Matthai on the last. Unlucky novel. Hamburg 2018.
  • The mission of Dr. Ott, novel on the psychology of marriage fraud. Hamburg 2019.
  • Wiener's stories. Humoresques and satires from 1957 to 1982 in “Eule”. Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-2901-1 .
  • Wiener's stories II. Satires & humoresques from the Mansfeld region. Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-7504-2161-5 .
  • Wiener's stories III: stories of my wife. Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3751906739 .

literature

  • Burga Kalinowski: Die hard . Funding cuts in theaters and orchestras threaten ensembles, cultural traditions and social structures of the stages in Halle, Dresden and Eisleben. In: Neues Deutschland from 29./30. March 2014, pp. 17–19 (with depictions of Felix Ecke = Ralph Wiener and the theater in Eisleben).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The ice liver Felix Ecke alias Ralph Wiener has published two cheerful novels , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Hettstedt edition, March 15, 2019, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Wiener, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corner, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian cabaret artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)