Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn

Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn ( pseudonyms : Paul Börner , Alfons Born-Ommer , Karl Christiansen , Stian Merbo , Franz Ullmann , born April 28, 1863 in Lennep , † 1938 in Wuppertal ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn was the oldest of five children of the businessman Johann Carl Ommerborn and his wife Gertrud, b. Backhausen. As a factory worker, he joined various social democratic and anarchist groups and worked as a journalist . In 1885 he married the actress Antonie Strauch, five years his senior, with whom he had a child that same year. Ommerborn lived in Barmen and Körne near Dortmund ; Among other things, he was the publisher of the magazine Der Freie Dichter, published in Barmen, in 1894 and from 1902 to 1907 editor-in-chief of the magazine Der Natur-, Haus- und Volksarzt . From 1906 he was based in Frankfurt am Main , from 1908 in Emmendingen in Baden , in Schaffhausen and finally again in Barmen. Between 1905 and 1907 he published a number of detective and sensational novels , most of which appeared under pseudonyms and in colportage publishers. After Ommerborn broke away from anarchism and, according to his own statement, had belonged to the Reformed Church since 1910 , he was involved in the last phase of his life in the Barmer Landstrasse Mission , which saw its task in the material and spiritual care of the non-residents . Ommerborn was the head of this organization and also published the quarterly journals for Landstrasse Mission , and he continued to work as a writer .

Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories . Apart from his colportage novels, he mainly deals with Christian and social topics, often from his homeland in the mountains .

Works

• Aphorisms for the education of a proud human being. Barmen
  • 1 (1903)
• Sensational. Cörne near Dortmund 1903
• Public accusation of perfidious acts of his own wife and her friends, with the help of two lawyers and the director of the Frankfurt insane asylum. Frankfurt am Main
  • 1 (1904)
• Blood. Leipzig 1905
• The hypnotic criminal club. Leipzig 1905 (under the name Alphons Born-Ommer)
• Jim Box. Leipzig 1905
• Robespierre. Leipzig 1905
• Satanella or The Revenge of the Flagellator. Leipzig 1905
• A werewolf. Leipzig 1905
• The girl butcher from Whytechappell. Berlin et al. 1906
• Abbé Fulminant or The Priest's Love. Leipzig 1907
• The evil spirit. Leipzig 1907
• Arson's story. Berlin ao 1907 (under the name Johannes Josef Christiansen)
• The decapitated dead. Berlin ao 1907 (under the name Franz Ullmann)
• The princess of revolution. Berlin ao 1907 (under the name Paul Börner)
• The mysterious phonograph. Leipzig 1907
• The sacred eye of the sun. Leipzig 1907
• The psychiatrist. Leipzig 1907 (under the name Alfons Born-Ommer)
• Devilish love. Leipzig 1907 (under the name JC J Born-Ommer)
• On the run from God or Thomas, the revolutionary. Gotha 1912 (under the name Karl Christiansen)
• ... who are laborious and loaded ... Gotha 1912 (under the name Karl Christiansen)
• The sinner's children. Kassel 1912
• The weight and burden of life! Chemnitz 1912
• Comrade man. Chemnitz 1913
• Love is not looking for what is yours. Chemnitz 1913
• Saul. Kassel 1913 (under the name Karl Christiansen)
• Work! Barmen 1914
• The village ghosts of Birkenloh. Chemnitz 1915
• Poor Trautchen. Chemnitz 1918
• The barrel organ Henrich. Berlin 1918 (under the name Karl Christiansen)
• The Moloch Hamburg. Hamburg 1920
• The Oberamtmannshof. Casting 1920
• The victims of the golden sin. Barmen-Wichlingh. 1921
• My friend and companion Fritz Binde. Barmen-Wichl. 1922
• Pastor Hans Kroppmann. Barmen-Wichlingh. 1922
• Jettchen Reuter. Hamburg 1926
• Stories. Wuppertal 1979

Web links

• Wilhelm R. Schmidt: Crime writer and "Landstrasse missionary" Ommerborn. February 6, 2010.