Robert Pilchowski

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Robert Pilchowski (born April 7, 1909 in Lucerne , † March 19, 1990 in Munich ) was a German writer.

Life

His father Erich Pilchowski was an officer, his mother a née Stocker. In 1950 he married Christine Thimig from Bremen, she was a daughter of the chamber actor Hermann Thimig , and has a son (Andreas) with her. From his first marriage to Marlene Klotz, who was a daughter of Maximilian Klotz, he brought two daughters (Sabine, Cornelia) with him.

After high school in Berlin-Spandau he was a tea and rubber planter in Java from 1929 to 1936 , real estate and finance broker from 1937 to 1941, during the Second World War Pilchowski was employed as a special leader in the office of the Association of Dutch-Indian Companies in Amsterdam .

From 1947 he lived as a freelance writer in Germany. His hobbies were sports and languages: English, Dutch, French.

The now forgotten writer wrote mostly romance and social novels for Heyne in the 1950s and 1960s , which formed the basis for the general series there .

Impact history

Some of Pilchowski's books were made into films, including a homosexual-themed film that was made in collaboration with Felix Lützkendorf and published in 1957 under the title Anders als du und ich (§ 175) . Another film based on a Pilchowski book is Beloved Corinna , made into a film in 1956 by Eduard von Borsody with Hans Söhnker and Klaus Kinski . Pilchowski's paperback editions at Heyne were partly designed by the well-known film poster artist of the 50s and 60s, Theo Bleser .

Works

Detective novels:

  • 1955 Secret about Berenice , Munich: Pohl (Heyne Allg 32)
  • 1956 Confession of a sixteen year old , Munich: Kindler (Heyne All 134)

Other books:

  • 1941 Hadija - Erzählungen , Berlin: Holle & Co., Die kleine Holle-Bücher 21
  • 1949 Western monsoon - exotic stories , Hamburg, Axel Springer.
    Two exotic stories, one of which is set in Java, the other in India.
  • 1951 Beloved Corinna , Bremen: Schünemann (Heyne Allg 18)
  • 1951 The strange Mr. Klett , Hamburg: Christians
  • 1951 Daddy and Do , Bremen: Schünemann (Heyne All 105)
  • 1954 Manuela , Hamburg: Verlag der STERN-Bücher (Heyne Allg 24)
  • 1955 Listen to your heart Memsahib , Hamburg: Verlag der Stern-Bücher (Heyne Allg. 55)
  • 1962 No talent for the great lady , Munich: Heyne (Heyne All 175)
  • 1966 Post-season of love , Heyne, (rights with CS Dörner)
  • 1966 marriage without love , Olten; Stuttgart; Salzburg: Fackel-Verlag

Stories:

  • 1940 The Shepherd , Illustrated Observer, August 20, 1940
  • 1948 Escape from Faces , in: Die Zeit 44/1948 of October 28, 1948
  • 1973 The fatal gift , in: TV hearing and seeing 21/73 from May 19, 1973

Wireless:

  • 1950 The romantic devil , NWDR, 21 min, director: Hans Rosenhauer

Movie:

  • 1953 A life for Do (director: Gustav Ucicky, book: Kurt Heuser based on the novel Daddy and Do by Robert Pichowski) With Hans Söhnker, Paola Loew
  • 1956 Beloved Corinna (FRG, B / W, 100 min) (director: Eduard von Borsody, screenplay: Curt J. Braun, Ernst von Salomon, based on the Constanze novel by Robert Pilchowski) With Elisabeth Müller, Hans Söhnker
  • 1957 Different from you and me (§ 175) (FRG, 91 min, b / w) (script: Felix Lützkendorf based on an idea by Robert Pilchowski, director: Veit Harlan) (homosexual drama / moral film)
  • 1961 Confession of a sixteen year old (ÖST, B / W, 80 min) (Script: Johanna Sibelius and Eberhard Kleindorff based on the novel by Robert Pilchowski, director: Georg Tressler) EA January 1961 (Austria)

Watch TV:

  • 1964 You co-write - Piet and the Delphin (commercial on SWR , 25 min)
    (script Robert Pilchowski and Ursula Bittermann, director: Eugen York) on November 7, 1964
  • 1965 You write with - Pension zur Schöne Aussicht (advertisement SWR, 25 min)
    (script Robert Pilchowski and Alfons Zech, director: Eugen York) on April 25, 1965
  • 1965 You co-write - Der Mann aus Australien (advertisement on SWR, 25 min)
    (script Robert Pilchowski and Heinrich Ludwig, director: Hans Bernd Müller) EA September 11, 1965
  • 1965 You write with
    me - finder's reward is big (advertisement in SWR, 25 min) (script Robert Pilchowski and Sabine Ventzky, director: Erich Kobler) EA November 6, 1965
  • 1965 You write with - Out of the blue (commercial on SWR, 25 min)
    (script: Robert Pilchowski and Herta Müller, director: Erich Kobler) EA February 25, 1965
  • 1968 You write with - Die Chauffeursmütze (advertisement in SWR, 25 min)
    (script Robert Pilchowski and Maxl Richert, director: Gerhart Lippert) EA March 1, 1968

Others:

  • 2007 Different from you and me : with uncut scenes from The Third Sex , director: Veit Harlan. Script: Felix Lützkendorf, based on an idea by Robert Pilchowski. Actor: Christian Wolff; Paula Wessely; Paul Dahlke; Ingrid Stenn; Friedrich Joloff; Hans Nielsen. [Munich]: Film & Art, Edition Filmmuseum , 1 DVD-Video (PAL, country code 0, 92 min.) See http://www.verhaben-verschwiegen-vergessen.de/pdf/ahland-vortrag-zum-harlan -film.pdf ( Memento from September 1, 2012 on WebCite )
  • 1952 Rakas Corinna: Suomentanut Maijaliisa Auterinen, Helsingissä: Otava, Beloved Corinna (Swedish)
  • 1962 Piken i rødt. Overs. av Øistein Larsen, Oslo: Mortensen, Secret about Berenice (Norwegian)
  • 1963 Bekentenis van een zestienjarig meisje [author. vert. door A. Th. Mooij] Bussum: Kroonder, confession of a sixteen year old (Dutch)

Remarks

  1. Specialists drafted into the Wehrmacht, but deployed in their (professional) field. Pilchowski managed several overseas tea companies in Amsterdam. see. Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, archive, holdings HJ Fahrenholtz, call number ED 385, vol. 7.

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