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. Film producer Zoran Solomun of the German Press Agency confirmed reports from the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” on Saturday, citing Huby’s son.
Huby was the inventor of the “Tatort” inspectors Ernst Bienzle and Max Palu and co-inventor of the Duisburg “Tatort” inspector Horst Schimanski and author of the successful series “Oh God, Herr Pfarrer” and “Ein Bayer auf Rügen”.
He 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 Huby 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.
