Walter Baumert
Walter Baumert (born February 19, 1929 in Erfurt , † September 22, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German writer . He has mainly written scripts for films on GDR television.
Life
Walter Baumert came from a Prussian civil servant family. As a 16-year-old high school student he volunteered for the Volkssturm, lost his father and family in Posen , was taken prisoner by the Americans and finally found his mother in a village in Eichsfeld . After the revelations in the Nuremberg Trials, he lost his youth ideals and broke with his bourgeois world.
He learned mason in preparation for a degree in architecture, but studied philosophy from 1952 to 1958 and then worked for GDR television. He wrote the scripts and television game scenarios for 23 films, some of which were multi-part. The continuation of his socially critical cycle "Café an der Hauptstrasse" was prohibited in 1976. The planned 12-part series about Friedrich Engels' youth was also on hold for 10 years, until it was reduced to four parts in 1985 and broadcast in the GDR and taken over by the FRG in 1989. The production of the two-part television game “The Challenge” was stopped twice until the film was allowed to be broadcast in 1986 in a heavily abridged and defused form. The production of the two-part historical television film "The First Year of Liberation" was banned entirely. Two books by Baumert appeared at the same time in the GDR and in the Federal Republic.
Literature and art prizes
- Literature Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation 1959, 1961
- Erich Weinert Medal 1960
- Children's and youth book award from the Minister for Culture of the GDR 1962
- Art Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation 1982 (as a collective), 1983, 1987 (as a collective)
- Main prize of INTERVISION Plovdiv 1981 (as a collective).
Works
- And who not torments of hell ... . Children's book publisher Berlin , 1975
- Look at the earth . Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 1981. The flight of the falcon . Weltkreis-Verlag , Dortmund 1981 (two identical editions under different titles)
- The preliminary investigation . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1985. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1985
- Poems from five decades 1945-1995 . EDITION digital , Pinnow 2012
Filmography
- 1959: The green folder
- 1960: love at the last sight (together with Winfried Nonnewitz)
- 1960: the avalanche
- 1961: Honeymoon without a husband (together with Hans-Georg Kalb)
- 1961: The unknown quantity
- 1961: If you stick with me
- 1962: The night on the Autobahn
- 1962: The new solution (together with Werner Dworski)
- 1963: The silver wedding anniversary
- 1965: Episodes of Happiness, 2 parts
- 1966: Shadows over Notre-Dame (together with Herbert Schauer and Otto Bonhoff ), 4 parts
- 1967: For each other, 1st part: The designer 2nd part: The plant manager
- 1968: Secret code B 13, (together with Armin Müller based on the novel by Eduard Fiker ), 4 parts
- 1968: The black rider (together with Armin Müller), 3 parts
- 1969: The lawyer (together with Otto Bonhoff)
- 1969: Longing for Sabine, from the cycle "Café an der Hauptstraße"
- 1970: Dust and Roses, from the cycle "Café an der Hauptstrasse"
- 1976: A chance for Manuela, from the cycle "Café an der Hauptstraße"
- 1976: Farewell to Gabriela, from the cycle "Café an der Hauptstrasse"
- 1981: The preliminary investigation
- 1985: Flight of the Falcon, based on the novel "Look at the Earth", 4 parts
- 1986: the challenge
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Baumert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Press release from the publisher on Baumert's death
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Baumert. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 46.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumert, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 2016 |
| Place of death | Berlin |