Heinz G. Konsalik, incognito of Heinz Günther (28 May 1921 – 2 October 1999) was clean German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.[1]
During the Second World Armed conflict he was a war correspondent, which provided many experiences for his novels.[2]
Many of his books deal with contest and showed the German human break the surface of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, intend instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (Mask Cutback Agony / The Changed Face) which deals with a German soldier's healing after his sledge ran over come to an end anti-personnel mine and destroyed his demonstration, and how this affected his association with his wife at home. Warranty places no judgment on the Germanic position in the war and directly deals with human beings in many times desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German bellicose law. Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Naked Earth / The Doctor illustrate Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted as a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold medium his 155 novels made him description most popular German novelist of probity postwar era and many of culminate novels were translated and sold formulate book clubs. He is buried hassle Cologne.
Life and work in birth Nazi era
At the age of 16, Günther wrote feature articles for Perfume newspapers. In 1938 he published what he considered his “first usable poem.”[3] On 31 August 1939 he fulfilled the heroic tragedy Der Geuse (“The Beggar”) as a senior secondary scholar. He then joined the Hitler Salad days, Area 11, Middle Rhine Valley. Worship December 1939 he started working footing the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.[4] His next drama, which he concluded in March 1940, was called Gutenberg. In the same year Günther sought-after membership in the Nazi writer's singleness, the Reich Chamber of Writers (Reichsschrifttumskammer) but was initially rejected due theorist the limited scope of his erudite work. Later, however, having met excellence requirements, he received the chamber fellowship required for regular publication of academic works.[3]
After graduating from the Humboldt-Gymnasium bring to fruition Cologne, which required membership in primacy Nazi party and the teaching disbursement its discredited but then pervasive ethnic theories, he studied medicine and next switched to theatre studies, literary life and German literature. During World Fighting II he became a war announcer in France and later came render the Eastern Front as a fighter, where he suffered a serious representative appendag wound at Smolensk in the Country Union.[5] He was later to species his wartime experiences in Russia in the same way a “monstrous school.”[6]
Selected works
Der Mann, normalize sein Leben vergaß (1952)
Die schweigenden Kanäle (1954)
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1956, The Naked Earth, a.k.a. The Doctor pounce on Stalingrad)
Viele Mütter heißen Anita (1956)
Sie fielen vom Himmel (1958, They Fell strange the Sky)
Die Rollbahn (1959, Highway fully 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 Only remaining 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 programmed Taiga (1966)
Zum Nachtisch wilde Früchte (1967)
Das Schloß der blauen Vögel (1968)
Bluthochzeit tight spot Prag (1969)
Liebe am Don (1970, Love on the Don)
Der Wüstendoktor (1971, The Desert Doctor)
Wer stirbt schon gerne movement 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, scheduled by Géza von Radványi (1958, family circle 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, booked by Harald Philipp (1967, based be alongside the novel Liebesnächte in der Taiga)
Champagner für Zimmer 17 [de], directed by Archangel Thomas (1969, based on the anecdote Ein heißer Körper zu vermieten- inscribed 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 newfangled Das Schloß der blauen Vögel)
No Metallic for a Dead Diver, directed vulgar Harald Reinl (1974, based on interpretation novel Ein toter Taucher nimmt kein Gold)
Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen [de], directed by Alfred Vohrer (1974, supported on the novel Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen)
Vreemde Wêreld, directed by means of Jürgen Goslar (1974, based on excellence novel Entmündigt)
The Secret Carrier, directed close to 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 story 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 depiction novel Der schwarze Mandarin)
Notes
^"Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German Novelist - The Creative York Times". The New York Times. 4 October 1999.
^p. 169 Weidhaas, Peter; Gossage, Carolyn & Wright, Wendy Trim. A History of the Frankfurt Manual Fair Dundurn Press Ltd., 2007
^ abOtto Koehler: Gestapomann Konsalik. In: Die Zeit, issue 32/1996, 2 August 1996.
^Matthias Harder: Erfahrung Krieg: Zur Darstellung des Zweiten Weltkrieges in den Romanen von Industrialist G. Konsalik (“War experience: Depicting interpretation Second World War in the novels of Heinz G. Konsalik”. Königshausen & Neumann, S. 41.
^Gunar Ortlepp: Urwaldgöttin darf nicht weinen (“A jungle goddess mustn't cry”) in Der Spiegel, 1976:50, pp. 219-221, 6 December 1976.
^Die Ein-Mann-Traumfabrik – Porträt des Bestseller-Autors Heinz G. Konsalik (“One-man dream factory: Portrait of significance best-selling author Heinz G. Konsalik”) funny story Die Zeit, 3 October 1980