Felix Huby, one of the most successful German screenwriters, is dead. He died in Berlin on Friday after a serious illness at the age of 83, as the media reported on Saturday. First had the Stuttgart newspaper reported.
Huby invented the “Tatort” inspectors Ernst Bienzle and Max Palu and was the author of the hit series “Oh God, Herr Pfarrer” and “Ein Bayer auf Rügen”. In 1981 he wrote the screenplay for a pilot film for WDR with the character Horst Schimanski, played by Götz George.
Huby was born in 1938 as Eberhard Hungerbühler in Dettenhausen near Tübingen. After a traineeship he worked as an editor at the Swabian Danube newspaper. From 1972 to 1979 he was mirror-Correspondent for Baden-Württemberg and also reported on the RAF trials in Stuttgart. His research resulted in his first novel “The Atomic War in Weihersbronn”. He then wrote numerous successful screenplays.
His honors include the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the Robert Geisendörfer Prize of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the Berlin Crime Prize and in 2006 the “Goldene Romy” for the best screenplay of the year. In 2016 he was awarded the honorary prize of the Baden-Württemberg Film Show.
SWR director Kai Gniffke called Huby “one of the defining authors of German television culture”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/.”He understood in an incomparable way how to capture people’s attitude to life in exciting and cheerful stories”. , said Gniffke.