Walter Sawitzky

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Walter Sawitzky (born December 5, 1892 in Riga , † January 27, 1950 in Staffelstein ) was a German-Baltic writer , journalist , cabaret artist and composer .

Life

Walter Sawitzky was born as the son of the building contractor Johann (John) Sawitzky and his wife Marianne geb. v. Neiendorf born in Riga.

He attended schools in Berlin and Riga, became a businessman and journalist. As a subject of the Tsar , he was called up as an officer candidate during World War I and served in the Russian army from 1915 to 1916 .

From 1918 to 1930 he worked as an operetta composer and cabaret artist in Riga.

From 1930 he lived in Germany as a writer and translator , from around 1948 in Niederau near Ebensfeld in Upper Franconia . On July 26, 1937, he married Maria Stellmacher.

In Berlin he was in contact with the Steenberg network.

Diverse activities

Sawitzky's family lost its property invested in the aftermath of the First World War . As a result, Walter Sawitzky had to look around for new earning opportunities. He proved his musical talent in public appearances as a mood singer. In 1921 he published the Boston waltz Longby-Long . In humorous lectures he showed his skills as a cabaret artist. He also played the piano during his time in Riga.

During this time he published short articles in the local Riga press. After 1930, longer stories and novels followed, which were often published as sequels in newspapers and also in book form.

Beyond the printed medium, he created works for the stage and film.

Works (book editions)

  • Why don't you write, Rolli? (Roman, Berlin 1933)
  • 2 x Alexandra (detective novel, Berlin 1934, later edition Twice Alexandra )
  • Mixed doubles (Roman, Berlin 1934)
  • Filoda Hostel, a funny novel (Berlin 1935)
  • Girl without a trace (adventure novel, Berlin 1936)
  • Sharp things (play using themes from Filoda hostel ; Berlin 1936)
  • Michael in Disorder, The Novel of a Career (Berlin 1937)
  • Race against life (artist novel; Berlin 1937)
  • Battle for Siglon (novel, 1938)
  • Efficient, efficient, the Paasemanns (Roman, Berlin 1938, later under the title Geld aus der Luft )
  • Blonde woman in the Far East (adventure novel; Berlin 1938)
  • Money from the air (Kelters Wochen-Roman, Volume 114; 1940)
  • Fear of Saborin (novel; 1940)
  • The golden corner (novel; Berlin 1940)
  • 3 weeks in dune sand (story; Berlin 1940)
  • Shackles of the past (detective novel; Berlin 1941)
  • Kerkhovens return home (Roman; Berlin 1941)
  • Aguhn knows everything (Roman; Berlin 1943)
  • Do you want to marry me? (as a serialized novel, 1943)
  • Saveur makes mistakes (detective novel; Berlin 1953)
  • And one day Isabel came ... (Kulmbach 1952)
  • Bartholdy and the dancers (Roman; Berlin no year)
  • Heike and the Soloists (novel; Berlin no year)

Translations into Dutch

  • Pension Filoda (Haarlem 1936)
  • De man zonder naam ( The nameless man , Haarlem no year)

Operettas

  • Bubis millions, operetta in 3 acts . Music by Sawitzky based on texts by Eddy Beuth . (Riga 1922).
  • Tatjana, operetta in five pictures . Libretto by Walter Sawitzky and Oskar Felix with music by Boris Grams. (Berlin 1936)
  • The race of hearts, operetta in three acts . Libretto by Walter Sawitzky and Oskar Felix with music by Boris Grams. (Berlin 1939)

Scripts for films

  • Filoda hostel . Screenplay by Bobby E. Lüthke based on Sawitzky's novel Fremdheim Filoda ; Directed by Hans Hinrich ; 1937. (Alternative title: Pension Filoda )
  • Money falls from the sky . Sawitzky's screenplay based on his novel Tüchtig, tähig, die Paasemanns ; Directed by Heinz Helbig , with German actors; 1938. (Alternative title: Little Girl - Great Love )
  • Pengar från skyn . German-Swedish co-production. Script based on Sawitzky Efficient, efficient, the Paasemanns ; Directed by Rune Carlsten, with Swedish actors; 1938.

literature

  • May Redlich: Lexicon of German Baltic Literature . A bibliography. Published by the Georg Dehio Society. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8046-8717-2
  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . From the Middle Ages to the present. 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1
  • Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music . Harro v. Hirschheydt, Wedemark-Elze 2002, ISBN 3-7777-0730-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Walter Sawitzky. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Sven Steenberg (1905–1994; actually Arthur Doellert) was a lawyer and screenwriter, from 1941 to 1945 special leader in the occupied eastern territories.
personal data
SURNAME Sawitzky, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1950
Place of death Staffelstein , Germany