He invented the “crime scene” inspectors Bienzle and Palu and created series for German television that are now classics. SWR appreciates that Huby understood how to capture people’s attitude to life in exciting and cheerful stories. He was 83 years old.
Felix Huby, one of the most successful German screenwriters, is dead. He died yesterday in Berlin after a serious illness at the age of 83, as reported by SWR, citing the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”. Huby was the inventor of the “Tatort” inspectors Ernst Bienzle and Max Palu as well as the author of the successful series “Oh God, Herr Pfarrer” and “Ein Bayer auf Rügen”.
Huby was born in 1938 as Eberhard Hungerbühler in Dettenhausen near Tübingen. After a traineeship he worked as an editor at the “Schwäbische Donau-Zeitung”. From 1972 to 1979 he was the “Spiegel” 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”. He “understood in an incomparable way how to capture people’s attitude to life in exciting and cheerful stories,” said the director.
