Utz Utermann

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Utz Utermann , born Wilhelm Utermann , pseudonym Wilhelm Roggersdorf , Mathias Racker (born December 3, 1912 in Annen ; † August 11, 1991 in Roggersdorf , municipality of Holzkirchen ) was a German writer , journalist , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Utermann wrote and spoke for the radio at the age of 16 and later studied philosophy at the universities of Rostock , Cologne and Berlin . He then worked as a journalist and writer.

As chief editor of the Reich Youth Leadership , Utermann was responsible for the youth magazines of the BDM and the Hitler Youth and published several books in the party's own Eher publishing house . He was also the editor of the Völkischer Beobachter . From the beginning of the Second World War he took over the section “Soldiers tell soldiers' stories”, which was later published in four successful anthologies in millions.

Gustaf Gründgens engaged him as a dramaturge at the Prussian State Theater . In 1940 his play colleague comes directly in the Kleiner Lustspielhaus was premiered under the direction of Theo Lingen . He was also active in film, revising the dialogues in Emil Jannings' late films .

Also in 1940 Utermann's comedy Misunderstood acquaintances was filmed under the title The Small Town Poet, with Utermann also working on the script. In 1943 colleague comes straight to the cinema, and it wasn't until 1950 that Das Dementi came to movie theaters under the title Verlobte Menschen .

After the war he wrote theater, film and book reviews as a journalist. As managing director and production manager he was in the service of Schorcht-Film and Sirius-Film from 1950 to 1954, and from 1955 worked for Ilse Kubaschewski's Divina . In 1960 it founded its Utermann film production in Munich , which only existed for a short time. Then he produced for Bavaria .

In the second half of the 1950s Ruth Leuwerik acted repeatedly as the star of his films, and in the early 1960s Heinz Rühmann . Utermann's productions were usually relatively slow and are considered dignified, well-kept entertainment.

In 1964 Utermann left the film business and devoted himself again intensively to writing, among other things with the name "Wilhelm Roggersdorf" as editor of the books by Erich von Däniken . Under the pseudonym "Mathias Racker" he wrote numerous works in the 1980s.

family

The marriage on October 26, 1939 with Clementine zu Castell-Rüdenhausen , who was responsible for the BDM work “Faith and Beauty” founded on January 19, 1938 and from which three sons emerged, was divorced on October 27, 1954. January 1967 the two married a second time.

Fonts

After the end of the Second World War, some of Utermann's writings were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone : Panzer forward! (with Herbert Reinecker and Karl Georg von Stackelberg ; Die Heimbücherei, Berlin 1939), The Reich of Adolf Hitler. A picture book of the development of Greater Germany 1933-1940 (with Hellmut Holthaus ; Eher, Munich 1940), Krisenfrei Wirtschaft ( Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1940) and Der Herr Prinzipal (Eher, Berlin 1941), as well as the works he published, Spotlight on us! A collection of basic essays from the HJ (Westfalen-Verlag, Dortmund 1939), In the attack and in the bivouac. Soldiers tell soldiers 'stories (Rather, Berlin 1943) and everyday soldiers' lives. Soldiers tell soldiers' stories (Rather, Berlin 1943).

Filmography (as producer)

Film adaptations (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Weigand: Memories of Nazi Germany and the future . In: JMS report . No. 5 , October 2010. The entire series was called VB - Feldpost . The four volumes: "Everyday life of soldiers. Soldiers tell soldiers' stories." 2. "In the attack and in the bivouac. Soldiers tell soldiers' stories." 3. "I still laugh about that today. Soldiers tell cheerful experiences." and 4. "Landser laugh. Front humor of this war." Utermann had called on the soldiers to send in experiences so that they could be published in the VB
  2. ↑ possibly as a ghostwriter, says Jörg Weigand 2010
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-r.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-u.html
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-u.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-u.html
personal data
SURNAME Utermann, Utz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Utermann, Wilhelm (maiden name); Roggersdorf, Wilhelm; Racker, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Anne
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1991
Place of death Roggersdorf , municipality of Holzkirchen