Werner Illing
Werner Illing (born February 12, 1895 in Chemnitz , † June 24, 1979 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German writer , screenwriter and director .
Life
After attending school, he took part in the First World War as a radio operator and returned in 1918 with the rank of lieutenant. He studied German in France and at the University of Graz . Already during this time he wrote poems, stories, narratives and dramas. His first publication Vor Tag appeared in 1921 with the support of Albert Soergel .
In 1922 he broke off his studies because his father had died and returned to Chemnitz, where he took over his parents' company. In his free time he continued to work as a writer and founded a speaking and movement choir. In 1925 he gave up the position of managing director in the company and became a freelancer for the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin . 1928–1929 he lived as a foreign correspondent for the paper in Provence and Paris . From 1927 he was also an employee of the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG in Leipzig . From 1929 he was broadcasting director for music and entertainment for Berlin Deutschlandfunk . He translated numerous novels by Ellery Queen from English for Ullstein Verlag . During this time he also wrote two utopian novels, of which Utopolis received a lot of attention as a "proletarian utopia".
From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier again. After the Second World War he moved to Stuttgart , from 1949 worked mainly for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and also wrote plays ( Die Große Flut , 1947). His short story The Lord from Another Star served as the basis for the script for the film The Lord from Another Star with Heinz Rühmann in the lead role. He was also involved in the scripts for the films The Desert Song (1939), Martina (1949) and The Midnight Venus (1951).
He died at the age of 84 in Esslingen am Neckar.
He and his wife Irmgard had their daughter Renée (1926–1958), who became a graphic artist and was married to Klaus von Dohnanyi from 1951 until her death .
Honors
- 1966: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- 1921: Day ago. Seals
- 1930: Utopolis. novel
- 1931: the blue star. novel
- 1936: Don Perico. The Lord of the Pewter Mountains. novel
- 1948: Bertolin Circus. novel
- 1949: The Game of Kings. stories
- 1949: Madame Reignier. novel
- 1962: Paris Equipage Corso. A carriage ride from the 18th to the 19th century.
- 1974: The great discoveries. Youth non-fiction book
- 1974: Dance between twilight and night. novel
- 1987: The songs of the old Indian at sunrise on the prairie. (edited by Joachim Ruf)
- 2005: Utopolis and other fantastic stories (edited by Franz Rottensteiner )
- Translations (all by Ellery Queen )
- 1931: A top hat is beautiful
- 1932: The broken shoelace
- 1935: visit at night
- 1936: Women around John Marco
- 1937: The lady with the veil
- 1938: visit on the last day
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 217.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 572.
- Susanne Bercher: Werner Illing: Utopolis. Introduzione, traduzione, commento e bibliografia (dissertation) Milan 2003.
- Götz Müller: The socialist alternative world. In: Gegenwelten. The utopia in German literature , Stuttgart 1989, pp. 218–223.
- Joachim Ruf (Hrsg.): The past is organized into meaning: From the life and work of Werner Illing. Memories of Albrecht Baehr, Ingeborg Drewitz , HAP Grieshaber and a. Pflaum, Sandhausen near Heidelberg 1986.
- Margitta Zieger: Home in the heart. Reminiscence of the writer Werner Illing. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 1993, no. 1, pp. 19-21.
- Small materials on Werner Illing (1895-1979). In: Quarber Merkur , Vol. 33 (1995), HN83, ISSN 1433-7932, pp. 30-38.
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Illing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Werner Illing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Werner Illing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Werner Illing at Open Library
- Werner Illing ( Memento from January 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lord from the Other Star ( Memento from January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Illing, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1979 |
| Place of death | Esslingen am Neckar |