Axel Eggebrecht

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Axel Eggebrecht (right) with Fritz Eberhard (center) and Peter Glotz (left).

Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht (10 January 1899 – 14 July 1991) was a German journalist, writer, and screenwriter.[1]

Life

Eggebrecht grew up in

KPD (Communist Party of Germany), traveling twice to the Soviet Union in 1923 and 1924, but he returned to Berlin disappointed in Bolshevism
.

In 1925 he began his work with Siegfried Jacobsohn's Die Weltbühne, besides which he also wrote for the Literarische Welt. In Berlin, he was one of the inhabitants of the so-called Künstlerkolonie Berlin, a housing complex in southeastern Berlin constructed for the purpose of providing financially insecure writers and artists with affordable housing. In 1933 he was imprisoned for several months at the Hainewalde concentration camp. After his release he used pseudonyms to eke out a living in the film industry as a screenwriter, assistant, and critic.

After the end of the

Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
.

In 1965 he became a member of the

International PEN association, in 1972 becoming Vice President of the German branch. In 1983 he was awarded the Gerrit-Engelke-Preis, the literature prize of the city of Hanover. In 1989, he received the Bürgermeister-Stolten-Medaille, the highest honor awarded by the city of Hamburg
, where he later died.

Axel Eggebrecht Prize

In Eggebrecht's memory, the Media Foundation of the City of Leipzig endowed the Axel Eggebrecht Prize to be awarded for radio documentaries. Since 2008, it is awarded every two years, alternating with the Günter Eich Prize for radio dramas. Both prizes award 10,000 Euros.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-230-25136-6
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-107-62783-3
    .

External links
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