Many of the titles of his plays should only be known to fans of the Berlin boulevard stages, others such as “People of the World”, “Hansen versus Hansen”, “Jessica is coming back!” Or “Kohlenpaul” were also shown in a Low German version at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
In the end, there were around forty comedies, folk plays and taunts that Horst Pillau contributed to the repertoire of the boulevard theater in the course of his career, since he and his colleague Curth Flatow celebrated his first success in 1960 with “The Window to the Corridor”.
In the production with Inge Meysel and Rudolf Platte, the play was successfully on the program of the Berlin Hebbel Theater for a long time.
Hubert Spiegel
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Pillau, who was born in Vienna in 1932 and grew up in Berlin, was also successful as a screenwriter and wrote 180 episodes for television series such as “Under one roof”, “It doesn't always have to be caviar” or “Die Wilsheimer”, a Hessen saga starring Hansjörg Felmy and Gila von Weitershausen. He invented the show “Glückspilze” for Peter Frankenfeld and wrote numerous skits for Hans Rosenthal's quiz show “Dalli Dalli”.
But Pillau was also productive as a radio play writer and novelist. In addition to novels such as “The Ghost Authority”, “Family Ties” or “The Fairy Tale Pilot”, several volumes with short stories and short stories were published. A late work with the ironic title “Finally a hero” followed last year. In May of last year, Horst Pillau told the FAS how he experienced the end of the world war as a twelve-year-old. When the family was bombed, the mother rescued a shoebox from the burning wreckage. Inside was not jewelry, but the twelve-year-old's turtle. Horst Pillau has now died in Berlin at the age of 88.