Ulf Miehe

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Ulf Miehe (born May 11, 1940 in Wusterhausen ; † July 13, 1989 in Munich ) was a German writer , screenwriter and film director . Together with Walter Ernsting , he also published under the pseudonym Robert Artner .

Life

Ulf Miehe grew up in Berlin and after completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Bielefeld, he worked as a lecturer at Sigbert Mohn Verlag . During this time he discovered Guntram Vesper , whose poetry volume he was in charge of in 1965. After the Sigbert Mohn Verlag was liquidated in the same year, he worked as a translator, freelance writer, journalist, voice actor and extra. He has received several grants ( Bertelsmann Foundation 1965, Berlin Senate 1967) and was a member of the PEN Center Germany from 1974 . With Marius Müller-Westernhagen he appeared as a member of the band "Superheroes" in 1972 in a television show. Esther Ofarim sang several of his lyrics on her LP “Complicated Ladies”.

He lived with his wife Angelika near Munich until his death. Miehe died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Munich at the age of 49.

Awards

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Literary work

I have another dead person in Berlin

Miehe was best known for his detective novel Ich hab noch ein Toten in Berlin , which critics placed in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett ; Miehe referred to them as "German Raymond Chandler ". It's about the idea for a script in which a US Army money transport is to be ambushed. This seduces two filmmakers to put this idea into practice. To do this, they have to work with a Berlin criminal who has completely different interests. The novel was translated into 11 languages, had a circulation of 200,000 copies in the USA, received the “State Prize for Literature” in Bavaria and was made into a film in 1974 under the title Output . 33 years after its publication, it was selected by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for its “SZ Krimibibliothek” (volume 17).

Puma and Lilli Berlin

Miehe, who initially wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Robert Artner together with Walter Ernsting alias "Clark Darlton" , was also active as an editor and wrote poems and stories, consolidated his reputation as a crime writer with two novels: Puma (1976) and Lilli Berlin (1981). Both are considered to be "pictorially told, neatly researched, concise and precise in the dialogue and transparent in the description of characters and locations" . Puma , a blackmail story, was to be made into a film, but this was refrained from because the Schleyer kidnapping took place at that time . The novel is seen in the critics as "a book against which the sellable goods of such mainstreamers as Donna Leon or Henning Mankell look rather old" and for the literary critic Peter Jokostra Miehe was considered a "thoroughbred teller, a storyteller who the famous Raymond Chandler does not is inferior to it, is even superior to it in some successful passages ” . The WDR produced the novel as a radio play in 2004.

The setting for Miehe's novels is often Berlin, which is divided into two parts

In Miehe's last crime novel, Lilli Berlin , a real-life and fantastic piece of German-German Berlin reality takes place within a few days of January. Peter Henning sums up that the author remained true to his basic theme in all three novels: “the straightforward staging of the realistic underworld ballad, the noir novel ” .

filmmakers

Ulf Miehe also worked as a screenwriter in the Tatort and Der Fahnder series , directed several films himself, but had the greatest success with the movie John Glückstadt .

Theodor Storm (1817-88), whose novel the material for the film John Glückstadt was

John Glückstadt

The plot of this film is based on Theodor Storm's novella Ein Doppelganger from 1886. A young man, seduced to commit a crime, is sent to Glückstadt prison. Back in his small hometown on the North Sea, he wants to build a new life, but is exposed to the terror of the residents. The leading roles are played by Dieter Laser as John Hansen and John Glückstadt - Laser and Marie-Christine Barrault as John's wife received the Federal Film Prize for Best Actor. Other actors are Johannes Schaaf and Tilo Prückner , the music is by Eberhard Schoener .

Ulf Miehe received the gold film tape as the best young director for his work . The FAZ wrote that this historical film was “clearly designed for the cinema in terms of its aesthetics, which has already become a remarkable rarity in Germany”, but also criticized the fact that the director still shows a certain inexperience in some places and continues : "Nevertheless, this has turned out to be a quite remarkable film, the melancholy black and white of which meets the atmosphere that we know from Fassbinder's " Effi Briest " ."

Literary works

  • Between the Spree and Krumme Lanke. Berlin joke . The little book. Mohn, Gütersloh 1964.
  • The time in W. and elsewhere . Prose. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1968.
  • We are now delivering the following items in partial payment. A political pornography . Bear, Berlin 1969.
  • I have another dead person in Berlin . Novel. Piper, Munich 1973. ISBN 3-492-01959-5 . Most recently: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Kriminalbibliothek Vol. 17. Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-86615-235-9 .
    • Danish translation: En million i Berlin . Lindhardt og Ringhof, Copenhagen 1974, ISBN 87-7560-134-6 .
    • Finnish translation: Miljoonan dollarin kysikirjoitus . Gummerus, Jyväskylä 1974, ISBN 951-20-0765-7 .
    • Swedish translation: Miljondollarmanuskriptet . Norstedt, Stockholm 1974, ISBN 91-1-742012-1 .
    • Dutch edition: Ik heb nog een dode in Berlijn . Bruna, Utrecht 1978, ISBN 90-229-5221-5 .
    • Spanish edition: Un muerto en Berlin . Editorial Planeta, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-320-4127-0 .
  • Puma . Novel. Piper, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-492-02176-X . New edition: Puma. With materials on life and work . Dumont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4854-1 .
  • Lilli Berlin . Novel. Piper, Munich 1981. ISBN 3-492-02417-3 . New edition: Lilli Berlin , crime novel. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86789-198-1 .
Science Fiction (as Robert Artner, with Clark Darlton)
  • At the end of fear . Stories. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3075, Munich 1966.
  • The shining death . Novel. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 123), Munich 1967.
  • Life from the ashes . Novel. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 139), Munich 1968.
as editor
  • Panorama of modern poetry from German-speaking countries. From the turn of the century to the present day . S. Mohn, Gütersloh 1966
  • Drago Ulama: Poems . S. Mohn, Gütersloh 1966
  • Peace theme . Together with Wolfgang Fietkau and Arnim Juhre . Hammer, Wuppertal 1967
  • as Robert Artner: Handles for dealing with beat, school, film, church, anti-baby pill, the armed forces, parents and other opponents . Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1968.
Translations
  • Jim Kjelgaard: Fists and Fishing Poles . From the American. S. Mohn, Gütersloh 1964, later: Sauerländer, Aarau 1973, ISBN 3-7941-0193-6 .
  • Anne Sinclair Mehdevi: The leather hand . S. Mohn, Gütersloh 1965

Filmography

cinemamovies
Television films
  • 1980: So everyone has their freedom (episode of the TV series So geht es auch ; director)
  • 1981: Nothing new under the sun - Regards Max (screenplay and direction)
  • 1983: Times Change (screenplay)
  • 1984–1986: Several series episodes in the series Der Fahnder . (Script)
  • 1985: "It doesn't always have to be murder": Once is never with Dirk Dautzenberg (screenplay)
  • 1987: " Tatort ": The Power of Fate (screenplay)
  • 1987: "Tatort": Opponent with Helmut Fischer (screenplay)
  • 1988: "Tatort": double life (screenplay)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Günter Herburger . In: The Mirror (1973)
  2. ^ New manual of contemporary German literature since 1945 . P. 456. Munich 1990
  3. ^ Peter Henning: Black stories . In: Focus No. 45, 1999
  4. ↑ Peter Jokostra in an article written in 1977, printed in the new Puma edition in the series "DuMont Noir", No. 5, 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4854-1
  5. ↑ Peter Heninng in the broadcast Mosaik on WDR3 on August 9, 2006
  6. ↑ Wilfried Wiegand: Young German film on target? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 5, 1975
personal data
SURNAME Miehe, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wusterhausen / Dosse
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1989
Place of death Munich