Armin Otto Huber

Armin Otto Huber (born January 31, 1904 in Neunkirchen am Potzberg , † July 4, 1977 in Meckenheim ) was a German writer.

Life

The son of a pastor and his wife spent his youth in Ludwigshafen , where he attended high school. He was supposed to be a clergyman like his father, but reading various adventure novels awakened his longing for America. In 1924 he emigrated to Canada with his father's permission to become a trapper . He lived in the Canadian wilderness for three years.

On the occasion of his first return home in 1929, Huber wrote a few small newspaper articles about Canada. He then traveled to South America , where he followed the Chaco War as an observer . He returned to Germany in 1930 via Brazil , the Sahara and the north-west coast of Africa. After the success of his books On Wild Paths in New Canada (1931) and With Red and White Adventurers in Canada (1932), he settled in Berlin .

Here he married his secretary Jenny Alix Marcus and by the end of the decade had written about 30 novels, mostly modern adventure novels that set in North America and appeared in various magazines, as well as detective novels. In 1939 he emigrated to Ecuador with his Jewish wife and daughter . In the capital, Quito , he finally became director of the Radio Teatro Bolivar . Another daughter was born in Quito in 1942; In 1953 his wife traveled with their two daughters from Guayaquil to La Rochelle and on to Berlin to rent an apartment there.

In 1954 Huber returned to Germany and lived first in Berlin and from 1960 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . His most successful book Men in Red Skirt about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police appeared in 1955 under the pseudonym Fred Larsen. Under the pseudonym Armin Frank he wrote the historical adventure novel The Lady with the Sword (1955).

In addition to novels and short stories, Huber also wrote non-fiction books such as Mit Tomahawk and Friedenspfeife (1956) about Indians , Old Jed the Trapper (1956) about trappers and In the Name of the Law (1957) about the activity of a sheriff , all three under the pseudonym Fred Larsen. Of his three-volume autobiography, only the first two volumes, Ticket nach Canada (1964) and Nonstop ins Unknown (1966), were published.

In 1975 Huber moved to Meckenheim, where he succumbed to a stroke two years later .

His birthplace Neunkirchen am Potzberg, from which his mother's family comes, still reminds of the Palatinate adventure writer with the “Armin-Huber-Weg”.

Publications (selection)

• On adventurous paths in America: a reading book , Neustadt / Weinstrasse: Pfälzische Verlags-Anstalt, 1989, ISBN 978-3-87629-154-3
• Bring him in alive: Experiences d. canada. Police officer Joe MacBride , Landau / Pfalz: Pfälzische Verlags-Anstalt, 1967
• Nonstop into the unknown , Stuttgart: Union Verlag, 1966
• Rarity hunters: From the adventurous life of a collector , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1966
• The Pinkertons: Life and Adventure of Master Detectives , Gütersloh: S. Mohn, 1960

literature

• Heinrich Pleticha, Siegfried Augustin: Lexicon of adventure and travel literature from Africa to Winnetou. Edition Erdmann in K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart, Vienna, Bern 1999, ISBN 3 522 60002 9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Otto Huber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Report on Armin Otto Huber