Walter Karl Schweickert

Walter Karl Schweickert (born August 26, 1908 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † December 27, 1992 in Leipzig ) was a German radio play author and writer.

Life

As early as 1925, the son of an architect wrote political articles a. a. at the magazine Klassenkampf . He became an employee in the press department and dramaturgy of a Berlin film company and moved to Leipzig in 1930. Here in 1932 he co-founded and wrote the left-leaning cabaret “Die Zeitlupe”. From 1933 he was a commercial clerk in Borna . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . During the Second World War he was economic leader of the General Commissariat in Nikolajew in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine .

From 1950 Schweickert worked as a freelance writer. He was one of the most successful radio play authors in the GDR. He also wrote novels, short stories, children's books and television plays. His monologue piece “ Listen here is Hackenberger speaking! "Was translated into several languages ​​and was published in 1959 as a novel under the title" The Hackenberger Files ".

Awards

In 1961, Schweickert received the Bronze Order of Merit and the International Radio Play Prize as a member of the collective for the development of radio plays.

Works

• Listen up, this is Jesus Hackenberger speaking , radio play monologue with Willy A. Kleinau , director: Werner Wieland , first broadcast: July 13, 1951, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Listen up, this is Hackenberger speaking! , (Second version) Radio play monologue with Willy A. Kleinau , director: Werner Wieland , first broadcast: January 28, 1954, Berlin I
• Listen up - this is Georg Richard Hackenberger speaking! , Radio play monologue with Willy A. Kleinau , record version, LITERA 8 60 143
• Someone asked for red wine , Roman, Mitteldt. Publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1953
• The ox from Kulm , Roman, Mitteldt. Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1954 - filmed in 1955
• Tatort teacher's room , Mitteldt. Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1960 (eponymous play by Rainer R. Lange , premiered on February 8th, 1964 in the Berlin Theater of Friendship )
• The Hackenberger files , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1960
• Grotesque stories , Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1960
• Women want to be conquered , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1962
• The Señor and the Points , brain teasers, Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1962
• Nebel , radio play, dramaturgy: Gerhard Rentzsch , director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner, first broadcast: May 21, 1964, Berliner Rundfunk
• Question marks and the like , joke puzzles, brain teasers, Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1964
• In the last second , Altberliner Verlag Lucie Groszer, Berlin 1965
• Wedding with obstacles , Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1966
• I did it for Jim , Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1966
• Kriminalkommissar K. tells , Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1967
• The man who knew karate , Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1968
• The man who disappeared without a trace , Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1970

Radio plays

• 1957: With Gerhard Rentzsch : Santa Claus lives behind the moon - Director: Herwart Grosse (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1960: Pickhuhn's birthday - Director: Helmut Hellstorf (Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

• Stefan Bodo Wurffel: Radio plays from the GDR . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1982. (Radio plays by Walter Karl Schweickert, Heiner Müller , Rolf Schneider , Gerhard Rentzsch , Hans-Jörg Dost , Stephan Hermlin , Günther Rücker , Günter Kunert , Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Joachim Walther )
• Stefan Bodo Wurffel: Walter Karl Schweickert , in: Literatur Lexikon , Vol. 10, Gütersloh / Munich 1991.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, 2009, pp. 518-519, ISBN 978-3939929123
• Meyer's pocket dictionary. Writer of the GDR , publisher: VEB Bibliographisches Institut (1974), p. 509f

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Karl Schweickert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .