Rolf Honold

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Rolf Honold (born July 9, 1919 in Munich - Schwabing ; † October 13, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German actor , theater director and writer . He was best known as the creator and author of the television series Raumpatrouille .

Life

Origin and education

Rolf Honold was the son of the cavalry captain Georg Honold. He attended secondary school and then a teacher training college for two years , but broke off his teacher training and took acting lessons. Apparently he was drafted or volunteered for the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War . During the war he served as a mountain pioneer officer. Apparently he was also used in the Warsaw Uprising in 1943 . As early as 1945 he fled from a Czech prisoner of war and resumed his acting studies, which he financed as a construction worker.

activity

After the war he worked as an actor, then as a theater director in Hof (Saale) , in Osnabrück (Theater am Domhof), at the State Theater in Oldenburg and in Dortmund, and apparently worked as a freelance writer from the early 1950s. In 1950 his first play, The Spider , was performed in Hof .

In 1956, West German television produced Fledermaus as a television film based on his scenario . a. Horst Frank played along. It was published in 1957 and filmed in 1958 as the Fledermaus squadron with the assistance of Erich Engel from DEFA .

In 1959 Honold moved to Berlin and worked for Artur Brauner's CCC film , among others . At the beginning of 1960 he began to create science fiction television series. Terra calls Andromeda was bought by Bavaria, but not realized. The follow-up project had already been designed in top secret . Other projects were The Parallel World , Climate Control , Unterwasserpatrouille , Einstein Company and The PSI Group .

In 1965 Honold was involved as a screenwriter on the television series John Klings Abenteuer . Elements from Terra calls Andromeda were used in the 1966 television series Raumpatrouille , in which Honold was involved in all seven scripts. In 1968 and 1975 he published a few short stories about the series.

Private life

Little is known about his private life. In 1953 he married Lieselotte Römp, apparently after 1964 he was married to Renate Honold for a second time.

Works

  • The Spider (1950)
  • The thrust after Ssogrebitsche, Berlin 1952
  • Orchids for room 19 (1953)
  • Fledermaus squadron, Osnabrück 1957
  • The Fall of the Cicada (1956)
  • The Big Dream (1957)
  • Society without mercy
  • … And tomorrow the whole world, Munich 1960
  • The uprising (not published)

Filmography

literature

  • Rolf Honold: Fledermaus squadron . Play in three acts, Vienna / Munich / Basel (Verlag Kurt Desch) 1957. With a foreword by Karl Schumann and a biography of the author.
  • Horst G. Kliemann / Stephan S. Taylor (eds.): Who´s who in Germany , 3rd edition Munich 1964, p. 757.
  • Otto J. Groeg (ed.): Who´s who in Germany , 6th edition Ottobrunn near Munich 1976, p. 575. ISBN 3-921220-11-4 .
  • Josef Hilger: space patrol. The fantastic adventures of the spaceship ORION , expanded new edition Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-89602-626-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Honold, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1979
Place of death Berlin