Richard Hughes (writer)

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Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (born April 19, 1900 in Weybridge / Surrey , England , † April 28, 1976 in Harlech / Gwynedd , Wales ) was a British writer . He is considered the author of the first European radio play .

Life

Richard Hughes studied at Oxford , where he made friends with Robert Graves , Aldous Huxley and TE Lawrence . During the First World War he was a war volunteer and then traveled, at times hitchhiking, Europe , the USA , Canada , the West Indies and the Middle East, where he sought contact with Berbers, Arabs and Indians.

Hughes worked intermittently as a journalist and then as a freelance writer. One of his best-known works is the novel The Innocent Voyage (Harper, 1929), which was later reissued under the title A High Wind in Jamaica (Eng. A storm wind in Jamaica ). In addition to nautical and adventure novels, which are often compared to the works of Joseph Conrad and some of which have also appeared in German, Hughes wrote plays for the theater and funk , which Shaw described as "the best one-act play ever written". In 1938 his novel In Hazard appeared , which was published several times under different titles in German, most recently in 2012 by Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich.

His piece A Comedy of Danger , broadcast on January 15, 1924 by the BBC , is considered the first European radio play. On August 24, 1925, it was broadcast by NORAG in Hamburg (with Paul Ellmar , Edith Scholz and Karl Pündter ) under the title Danger . Media scientist Reinhard Döhl writes about this radio play: “What distinguishes Danger from Hughes' one-act plays is a trick with which he makes the piece suitable for radio , as it were. The failure of the light during a mine tour triggers a dialogue and thus the radio play. "

In 1932 Hughes married the painter Frances Bazley and moved his family to remote Cardigan Bay. In 1936 he became Vice President of the Welsh National Theater. From the mid-1940s to 1955, Hughes worked as a screenwriter for Ealing Studios . From the 1960s until his death he wrote the trilogy The Human Predicament , the first two volumes of which ( The Fox in the Attic , which themed the 1923 Hitler coup , and The Wooden Shepherdess ) were published during his lifetime.

In 1963 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Art fairy tale

  • The wonder dog
  • The sinister child; also: the dark child
  • The gardener and the white elephants
  • The man with the green face
  • The journey through the phone; also: The phone ride
  • The glass ball country; also: The glass ball landscape
  • Nothing
  • The hasty cook; also: The hasty cook
  • The palace of the spider
  • The ants
  • The invitation
  • The three innkeepers; also: The three innkeepers or the king's legs
  • The magic drug
  • The porcelain spaniel; also: the porcelain pug
  • The magic glass
  • The Christmas tree
  • The old queen
  • The school
  • The three sheep
  • In driving
  • Inhale
  • The whale home
  • Gertrude and the mermaid
  • Gertrude's child

Novels

  • 1929: A High Wind in Jamaica (UK) and The Innocent Voyage (USA).
  • 1938: In Hazard .
    • German by Richard Möhring, Alfred Newman: Hurricane in the Caribbean Sea . Suhrkamp Verlag (Library Suhrkamp 32), Frankfurt am Main 1956.
    • as well as paperback: 1st edition. Suhrkamp Verlag (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 394), Frankfurt am Main, 1977. ISBN 3-518-06894-6 .
    • New translation into German by Michael Walter : In Bedrunge 3rd edition. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-908777823 .
  • 1961: Fox in the Attic .
    • German by Maria Wolff: The fox under the roof . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963.

Film adaptations

script

Literary template

literature

  • Reinhard Döhl: About Richard Hughes' "Danger". WDR, March 26, 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary Members: Richard Hughes. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Richard Hughes: The Wonder Dog. German by Angelika Feilhauer. Diogenes, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-257-00618-7 .
  3. ↑ Richard Hughes: The whale home. Fairy tale. Transferred by Käthe Rosenberg. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1953.
  4. ↑ Richard Hughes: Gertrude and the Meermaid. German by Dörthe Marggraf and Uwe Friesel. With pictures by Nicole Claveloux . Middelhauve, Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-7876-9330-0 .
  5. ↑ Richard Hughes: Gertrude's child. German by Angelika Feilhauer. Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-25080-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Weybridge , Surrey , England
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1976
Place of death Harlech , Gwynedd , Wales