Walther Kiaulehn

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Walther Kiaulehn (born July 4, 1900 in Berlin , † December 7, 1968 in Munich ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

After an apprenticeship as an electrician, Kiaulehn became a journalist. In 1924 he worked for the Berliner Tageblatt , and from 1930 to 1933 for the BZ am Mittag . His journalistic abbreviation at that time was Lehnau , a shortened anagram.

At the end of the 1930s he worked as an occasional spokesman for the German newsreel and many Nazi cultural films. In 1939/40 he was a soldier. From 1940 to 1943 he served as Pk -reporter eg V. (for special use) with special status for the propagandistic NS-Auslandsillustrierte Signal in France, Belgium, the occupied territories of the USSR and in the Balkans. In 1943 he was made indispensable (uk) by the Propaganda Ministry for screenwriting for Nazi cultural films. Kiaulehn was accused in 1947 by the French author and Resistance fighter Vercors of his participation in the most widespread Hitler organ during the German occupation in France . On the other hand, Kiaulehn was also banned from working during the Third Reich because of critical articles.

After 1945 Kiaulehn moved to Munich. There he worked first as an actor and as a cabaret artist. He played among other things at the "Small Comedy" and in the "Volkstheater". In 1946 he played in a cabaret program " Die Schaubude ", which he also presented at the same time. Together with Werner Finck and Hellmuth Krüger, he competed in “Das Schmunzelcolleg”. He also played in various post-war films. His initial attempts to regain a foothold journalistically with the Neue Zeitung initially failed due to resistance from Hans Habe , although he was sponsored by Erich Kästner . Only after Habe's replacement did Kiaulehn have success. In the early 1950s he became head of the arts section at Münchner Merkur , where he worked as a senior editor and theater critic until his death in 1968.

Works

  • Lehnau's consolation primer and book of laughter. Feature sections. Ernst Rowohlt , Berlin 1932. (The book was banned and confiscated by the National Socialists in 1933. )
  • The iron angels. Birth, history and power of machines from antiquity to the time of Goethe . German publisher 1935
  • Reading book for smiles . Ernst Rowohlt, Hamburg 1938.
  • Fireworks by day . Ernst Rowohlt, Hamburg 1948.
  • Berlin. Fate of a cosmopolitan city . Biederstein, Munich / Berlin 1958, 1969.
  • Rüdesheim fragments. Drawings by Heinrich Luckner. Ernst Staneck, Berlin 1961.
  • My friend the publisher. Ernst Rowohlt and his time. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967, ISBN 978-3-498-03404-7 .
  • Detlef Bluhm (ed.): Praise to the quiet city. Features from the publications from 1932 to 1938. Fannei & Walz, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-927574-00-7 . (Reprint of the 1932 title)
    • Reprint: Berlin, praise for the quiet city. Schöffling, Frankfurt 1998.
  • The right Berliner in words and idioms. written by Hans Meyer and Siegfried Mauermann, edited and supplemented by W. Kiaulehn. 12th edition. after the new edition 1985. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39262-8 .

Films (selection)

As an actor:

As a screenwriter

  • World city on the water (1937)
  • Big City Types (1938)
  • From the home of Freischütz (1938)
  • My friend becomes a miner (1951)

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Christine Malende: Berlin and the PEN Club. In: Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 101.
  2. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz40819.html#ndbcontent
personal data
SURNAME Kiaulehn, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1968
Place of death Munich