Richard Hughes (writer)

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( born April 19, 1900 in Weybridge / Surrey, England; † April 28, 1976 in Harlech / Gwynedd, Wales ) was a British writer. He is considered the author of the first European radio play.

Life

Richard Hughes studied at Oxford, where he became friends with Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, and TE Lawrence. During World War II he was a volunteer and then traveled, sometimes hitchhiking, Europe, USA, Canada, Western India and the Middle East, where he sought dealing with Berbers, Arabs and Indians.

Hughes also spent time working as a journalist and then as a freelance writer. His most famous works include the novel The Innocent Voyage ( Harper, 1929), the later under the title A High Wind in Jamaica ( dt A storm wind in Jamaica ) was reissued. Besides lake and adventure novels, which are often compared to the works of Joseph Conrad and some of which have also been published in German, Hughes wrote plays for the theater and the radio, the "best one-act plays that were ever written " called Shaw. In 1938 he published his novel In Hazard, which was placed several times under different titles in German, most recently in 2012 Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich.

His piece Danger, broadcast by the BBC on 15 January 1924 is considered the first European radio play. 1925, it was sent from the NORAG in Hamburg under the title of danger. Media scholar Reinhard Döhl writes about this radio play: " What Danger of Hughes act plays different, is an artifice with which he makes the piece as it funk meet the precipitation of light during a Bergwerksbesichtgung triggers a dialogue and thus the radio play from. . "

1932 Hughes married the painter Frances Bazley and moved with his family to the remote Cardigan Bay. In 1936, he was Vice President of the Welsh National Theatre. From the mid- 1940s to 1955, Hughes worked for Ealing Studios as a screenwriter. In the 1960s until his death, he wrote to the trilogy The Human Predicament, whose first two volumes ( The Fox in the Attic, the theme of a Hitler coup in 1923, and The Wooden Shepherdess ) nor published during his lifetime.

Art fairy tales

  • The Wonder Dog
  • The sinister child; also: The Darkest Child
  • The gardener and the white elephant
  • The man with the green face
  • The journey through the phone; also: The Telephonfahrt
  • The glass ball land; also: The glass globe landscape
  • Nothing
  • The over-hasty cook; also: The hasty cook
  • The Palace of the spider
  • The ants
  • The invitation
  • The three restaurants; Also: The three restaurant owners, or The King's legs
  • The magic medicine
  • The porcelain Spaniel; also: The Porzellanmops
  • The magic glass
  • The Christmas tree
  • The old queen
  • The school
  • The three sheep
  • In driving
  • Inhale
  • The whale Home
  • Gertrude and the sea girl
  • Gertrudes child

Novels

  • German by Richard Mohring, Alfred Newman: hurricane in the Caribbean Sea. Suhrkamp Verlag ( Bibliothek Suhrkamp 32), Frankfurt am Main 1956.
  • As well as paperback: 1st Edition. Suhrkamp Verlag ( Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 394), Frankfurt am Main, 1977. ISBN 3-518-06894-6.
  • Retranslation into German by Michael Walter: In distress 3rd edition. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-908777823.
  • German Maria Wolff: The fox in the attic. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963.

Films

Screenplay

Based Upon

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