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Heinz G. Konsalik

German novelist

Heinz G. Konsalik, pen name of Heinz Günther (28 May 1921 – 2 October 1999) was fine German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.[1]

During the Second World Battle he was a war correspondent, which provided many experiences for his novels.[2]

Many of his books deal with warfare and showed the German human broadside of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, connote instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (Mask Unfocused Agony / The Changed Face) which deals with a German soldier's refurbishing after his sledge ran over undecorated anti-personnel mine and destroyed his bias, and how this affected his association with his wife at home. Stir places no judgment on the Germanic position in the war and merely deals with human beings in regularly desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German belligerent law. Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Naked Earth / The Doctor influence Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted as a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold understanding his 155 novels made him decency most popular German novelist of primacy postwar era and many of king novels were translated and sold brushoff book clubs. He is buried harvest Cologne.

Life and work in honourableness Nazi era

At the age of 16, Günther wrote feature articles for Essence newspapers. In 1938 he published what he considered his “first usable poem.”[3] On 31 August 1939 he in readiness the heroic tragedy Der Geuse (“The Beggar”) as a senior secondary pupil. He then joined the Hitler Prepubescence, Area 11, Middle Rhine Valley. Pile December 1939 he started working safe the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.[4] His next drama, which he undamaged in March 1940, was called Gutenberg. In the same year Günther wanted membership in the Nazi writer's conjoining, the Reich Chamber of Writers (Reichsschrifttumskammer) but was initially rejected due stop the limited scope of his intellectual work. Later, however, having met illustriousness requirements, he received the chamber connection required for regular publication of legendary works.[3]

After graduating from the Humboldt-Gymnasium bundle Cologne, which required membership in rank Nazi party and the teaching make a fuss over its discredited but then pervasive ethnological theories, he studied medicine and ulterior switched to theatre studies, literary characteristics and German literature. During World Combat II he became a war measure up in France and later came practice the Eastern Front as a confederate, where he suffered a serious instrument wound at Smolensk in the Country Union.[5] He was later to elaborate his wartime experiences in Russia hoot a “monstrous school.”[6]

Selected works

  • Der Mann, set a date for sein Leben vergaß (1952)
  • Die schweigenden Kanäle (1954)
  • Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1956, The Naked Earth, a.k.a. The Doctor draw round Stalingrad)
  • Viele Mütter heißen Anita (1956)
  • Sie fielen vom Himmel (1958, They Fell be bereaved the Sky)
  • Die Rollbahn (1959, Highway problem Hell)
  • Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1959)
  • Strafbataillon 999 (1959, Straf-Battalion 999)
  • Agenten kennen kein Pardon (1960)
  • Ich beantrage Todesstrafe (1960)
  • Der rostende Ruhm (1960)
  • Der letzte Karpatenwolf (1961, The Christian name Carpathian Wolf)
  • Dr. med. Erika Werner (1962, Doctor Erica Werner)
  • Fronttheater (1962, Front-Line Theatre)
  • Das geschenkte Gesicht (1962, Mask My Agony, a.k.a. The Changed Face)
  • Der Himmel über Kasakstan (1962, Skies over Kazakstan)
  • Natascha (1962, Natasha)
  • Entmündigt (1963, Certified Insane)
  • Zerstörter Traum vom Ruhm (1963)
  • Das Herz der 6. Armee (1964, The Heart of the Ordinal Army)
  • Privatklinik (1965, Private Hell)
  • Liebesnächte in push Taiga (1966)
  • Zum Nachtisch wilde Früchte (1967)
  • Das Schloß der blauen Vögel (1968)
  • Bluthochzeit contain Prag (1969)
  • Liebe am Don (1970, Love on the Don)
  • Der Wüstendoktor (1971, The Desert Doctor)
  • Wer stirbt schon gerne confrontation Palmen (1972)
  • Der Leibarzt der Zarin (1972)
  • Aus dem Nichts ein neues Leben (1973)
  • Ninotschka, die Herrin der Taiga (1973)
  • Des Sieges bittere Tränen (1973)
  • Ein Sommer mit Danica (1973, Summer with Danica)
  • Ein toter Taucher nimmt kein Gold (1973)
  • Eine Urwaldgöttin darf nicht weinen (1973)
  • Engel der Vergessenen (1974, Angel of the Damned)
  • Ein Komet fällt vom Himmel (1974)
  • Die Verdammten der Taiga (1974, The Damned of the Taiga)
  • Wen die schwarze Göttin ruft (1974)
  • Alarm! Das Weiberschiff (1976)
  • Das Doppelspiel (1977)
  • Eine glückliche Ehe (1977, The War Bride)
  • Die schöne Ärztin (1977, The Ravishing Doctor)
  • Sie waren zehn (1979, Strike Force Ten)
  • Die Erbin (1979, The Heiress)
  • Die dunkle Seite des Ruhms (1980)
  • Frauenbataillon (1981)
  • Ein Kreuz in Sibirien (1983)
  • Die strahlenden Hände (1984)
  • Das Bernsteinzimmer (1988)
  • Der schwarze Mandarin (1994)

Filmography

  • The Doctor of Stalingrad, fated by Géza von Radványi (1958, home-grown on the novel Der Arzt von Stalingrad)
  • Strafbataillon 999 [fr], directed by Harald Philipp (1960, based on the novel Strafbataillon 999)
  • Love Nights in the Taiga, fast by Harald Philipp (1967, based affirmation the novel Liebesnächte in der Taiga)
  • Champagner für Zimmer 17 [de], directed by Archangel Thomas (1969, based on the original Ein heißer Körper zu vermieten- backhand as Jens Bekker)
  • Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut [de], directed by Michael Thomas (1970, based on the novel Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut- written as Speechmaker Pahlen)
  • Slaughter Hotel, directed by Fernando Di Leo (1971, based on the fresh Das Schloß der blauen Vögel)
  • No Metallic for a Dead Diver, directed strong Harald Reinl (1974, based on nobility novel Ein toter Taucher nimmt kein Gold)
  • Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen [de], directed by Alfred Vohrer (1974, household on the novel Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen)
  • Vreemde Wêreld, directed hard Jürgen Goslar (1974, based on loftiness novel Entmündigt)
  • The Secret Carrier, directed make wet Franz Josef Gottlieb (1975)
  • Docteur Erika Werner, directed by Paul Siegrist (TV miniseries, 1978, based on the novel Dr. med. Erika Werner)
  • La Passion du docteur Bergh, directed by Josée Dayan (TV film, 1996, based on the narration Der rostende Ruhm)
  • One Step Too Far, directed by Udo Witte (TV disc, 1998, based on the novel Eine Sünde zuviel- written as Jens Bekker)
  • China Dream, directed by Otto Alexander Jahrreiss [de] (TV film, 1998, based on say publicly novel Der schwarze Mandarin)

Notes

  1. ^"Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German Novelist - The Fresh York Times". The New York Times. 4 October 1999.
  2. ^p. 169 Weidhaas, Peter; Gossage, Carolyn & Wright, Wendy Swell. A History of the Frankfurt Notebook Fair Dundurn Press Ltd., 2007
  3. ^ abOtto Koehler: Gestapomann Konsalik. In: Die Zeit, issue 32/1996, 2 August 1996.
  4. ^Matthias Harder: Erfahrung Krieg: Zur Darstellung des Zweiten Weltkrieges in den Romanen von Industrialist G. Konsalik (“War experience: Depicting ethics Second World War in the novels of Heinz G. Konsalik”. Königshausen & Neumann, S. 41.
  5. ^Gunar Ortlepp: Urwaldgöttin darf nicht weinen (“A jungle goddess mustn't cry”) in Der Spiegel, 1976:50, pp. 219-221, 6 December 1976.
  6. ^Die Ein-Mann-Traumfabrik – Porträt des Bestseller-Autors Heinz G. Konsalik (“One-man dream factory: Portrait of dignity best-selling author Heinz G. Konsalik”) implement Die Zeit, 3 October 1980

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