Willy Purucker
Willy Purucker (born August 10, 1925 in Munich - Haidhausen ; † February 6, 2015 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German screenwriter , director and radio presenter .
Life
After high school graduation and military service, Willy Purucker began his professional career in 1945 as a draftsman and caricaturist for the Neue Zeitung in Munich. Its competent features section editor was Erich Kastner . As a result, he wrote numerous radio programs, which he also directed. The innumerable radio plays he directed also included the only Paul Temple radio play produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), namely Paul Temple and the Conrad case from 1959 with Karl John and Rosemarie Fendel .
In 1972 he sparked a scandal in his home country with the television film Im Bayerischen Stil , in which he branded the sale of Bavarian cultural assets.
From 1979 BR Puruckers produced 28-part radio play series The Grandauers and their time , which was broadcast from 1980 to 1985. The radio play series tells a Bavarian family saga in the (Munich) petty bourgeoisie from 1893 to 1945.
The radio play series The Grandauers and their time served Willy Purucker as a template for his television series Löwengrube . The family and crime series was created in three seasons from 1987 to 1992, which in 32 one-hour episodes describes the fate of two Munich families from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s and in which he erected a memorial to his hometown in Munich. In 1991 Purucker received the Bavarian Television Prize for this , and in 1992 the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold.
In addition, Purucker et al. a. the screenplay for three Tatort episodes with Gustl Bayrhammer as Commissioner Melchior Veigl, for the BR two-part series Mali and for the television film Fresh Goods . The script for the Joseph Vilsmaier film And Nobody Cries After Me , based on the novel by Sigi Sommer , comes from him.
He died on February 6, 2015 at the age of 89 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Works
- The Grandauers. Novel. Langen Müller , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7844-3081-2 .
- The Grandauers and the New Era. Novel. Langen Müller, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7844-3155-0 .
- The Grandauers and the time after. Novel. Langen Müller, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7844-3216-8 .
Audio book
- The Grandauers and their time , Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88897-460-1 . 28 CD.
Awards
- 1978 - Ernst Schneider Prize
- 1990 - Bavarian poet thaler
- 1990 and 1995 - Munich shines
- 1991 - Golden gong for Löwengrube , together with Rainer Wolffhardt
- 1991 - Bavarian TV Prize
- 1992 - Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Löwengrube , together with Rainer Wolffhardt , Jörg Hube and Christine Neubauer
- 1993 - Upper Bavarian Culture Prize
- 1994 - Ernst Hoferichter Prize
- 1996 - Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1999 - Bavarian Order of Merit
Web links
- Literature by and about Willy Purucker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Willy Purucker in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Picture by Willi Purucker at Kunstmann Verlag (accessed October 8, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BR.de: Author of the "Löwengrube" mourning for Willy Purucker ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Purucker, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter, radio play director and radio presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich - Haidhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2015 |
| Place of death | Garmisch-Partenkirchen |