Laird Koenig
Life
Koenig, of whose biographical stations up in his fourth decade of life into little is publicly known since 1964 came as a screenwriter in appearance. Among other things, he was co - author of seven episodes of the TV series Flipper and Co - Screenwriter of the Westerns rivals under red sun (1971). His play The Dozens in 1969 listed with Morgan Freeman in one of the lead roles on Broadway. Together with Peter L. Dixon received Koenig 1972 for the co- authored novel children's hour the Grand prix de littérature policière for the best non-French crime novel of the year. This 1978 book was filmed as a French production under the original title Attention, les enfants regardent ( German title: The sinister stranger ) with Alain Delon in the title role.
Koenig, who temporarily lived from the 1970s to outside the U.S. and in London and Paris, published in 1974 his previously finished but not yet played the play The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as a novel. For the 1976 film adaptation premiered under the Swiss director Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster in the title role Koenig himself wrote the screenplay. Was the German translation of the novel in 1975, initially under the title The child appeared at the end of the road, we later used the more famous by the movie title The girl at the end of the road. The play is from 1997, also printed.
His other work as a screenwriter belonged trail of blood (1979 ) with Audrey Hepburn and directed by Terence Young. A film adaptation of his novel planned for 1979 The Neighbor ( German Title: A long weekend ) by Louis Malle did not materialize. In 1982 this book was made into a film under the title Killing 'em Softly with Irene Cara. Together with Robin Moore Laird Koenig in 1983 was awarded the Golden Raspberry (worst scenario ) for the film Inchon! ( with Laurence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset ). Also for the film adaptation of his own novel Rockabye ( The Lost Tinsel Angel) wrote the screenplay itself Koenig 1986 A new collaboration with director Nicolas Gessner, there was the 1989 film Tennessee Nights, based on the novel or Minnie A case of insignificance by Hans Werner chain Bach back.
Works
Novels
- Laird Koenig / Peter L. Dixon: children's hour. Joke, Bern / Munich 1974, ISBN 3-502-10388-7 ( The Children Are Watching, 1971)
- The girl at the end of the road. Heyne, München 1977, ISBN 3-453-10352-1 ( The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, 1974) previously under the German title: the child at the end of the road. Snow Kluth, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7951-0310- X
Stage Works
- The Dozens. Dramatist 's Play Service, New York 1969
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Dramatist 's Play Service, New York 1997, ISBN 0-8222-1571-3