Werner Jörg Lüddecke

Werner Jörg Lüddecke (born June 10, 1912 in Hanover ; † May 8, 1986 in Ascona ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

Life

Lüddecke worked as a reporter and newspaper editor in Kassel and Dresden and as a lecturer in Berlin. After military service and imprisonment, he became an author and editor at the NWDR . From 1943 he wrote numerous novels, including Morituri , which was made into a film in 1963, and two radio plays.

Together with Wolfgang Staudte , he provided the draft for the literary film adaptation of Das Beil von Wandsbek in 1951 and wrote film scripts from 1953. His scripts for the productions set during National Socialism July 20 (1955) and Night when the Devil Came (1957) each earned him a Federal Film Prize .

Awards

• 1956: Film tape in silver together with Günther Weisenborn for the script for July 20th
• 1958: Gold tape for the screenplay for The Night When the Devil Came

Works

1943: At that time at Cape Coross , Roman, Aufwärts Verlag 1947: Schatten , Roman, Hamburg: Possible 1948: Hocus-pocus in the bush , Hanover: Degener 1952: The Totosieger , Roman, Berlin: Staneck 1961: The Dog from Another Star , Roman, Ehrenwirth 1963: Morituri , Roman, Hestia Verlag ( filmed by Bernhard Wicki in 1965 ) 1964: Thursday at dawn , Heyne 1143 1964: Herrenpartie , film narration, Henschelverlag 1965: Live and let live , war novel, Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh

1970: Blockade breaker , Cologne: Lingen (new edition of "Morituri") 1971: cruise , wine press 197 1974: Visitation in Florence , Bastion 14011 1977: Lotos and Ashes , Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Lübbe 1981: Buffalo days , Bastion 14121 1981: Western Front , Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg 1983: Sardinian summer , bastion 10270

Filmography

• 1953: Jonny saves Nebrador
• 1954: beacon
• 1954: private confession
• 1955: a man forgets love
• 1955: July 20th
• 1956: night of decision
• 1957: At night when the devil came
• 1957: Madeleine and the legionnaire
• 1958: The tiger of Esnapur
• 1958: The Indian tomb
• 1963: men's game
• 1969: The angels of St. Pauli
• 1971: Jürgen Roland's St. Pauli Report
• 1973: Zinc coffins for the golden boys
• 1976: crime scene - ... and then it's payday (TV)
• 1979: Balthasar in a traffic jam (TV)
• 1985: Old Love (TV)

literature

• Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, pp. 168f.

Web links

• Werner Jörg Lüddecke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Werner Jörg Lüddecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Jörg Lüddecke at krimilexikon.de
• Biography with photo