Axel Frelau
Axel Frelau (actually Maxim Laufer ; born November 13, 1909 in Dědice / Moravia , Austria-Hungary ; † April 23, 1987 in Prague ) was a German-speaking Czechoslovakian writer and doctor.
Life
Axel Frelau and Maxim Laufer had a doctorate in medicine (1936 in Brno ). He took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side ; later he worked temporarily as a doctor in the Congo .
Under the pseudonym Axel Frelau - an anagram of his surname - Laufer wrote novels and stories with a socialist tendency , most of which take place in Spain or Africa and were mainly published by the GDR military publishing house .
His son is the singer Josef Laufer .
Works
- Guerrillas in the mountains of Aragon , Berlin 1958
- Eat, bird, or die , Berlin 1961
- The black drum , Berlin 1967
- Congo felt the pulse , Halle (Saale) 1968
- Shots in Spielberg , Halle (S.) 1971
- Meeting at Schott , Berlin 1974
- Zorro returns home , Berlin 1976
- The thundering smoke , Berlin 1977
- Sergeant Barker, get out! , Berlin 1978
- Unknown perpetrator , Berlin 1980
- A Spanish summer , Berlin 1981
- Doctor Cortez in distress , Berlin 1986
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Axel Frelau in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Axel Frelau in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antonín Kostlán, Alice Velkova (ed.): Science in exile: Czechoslovakia as a Way of the Cross from 1918 to 1989: Collection of a conference (Prague, 11 to 12 November of 2003.) Volume 17 of Práce z dějin vedy. Výzkumné Centrum pro Dějiny Vědy, 2004, ISBN 9788086103815 , p. 77. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
- ↑ Matilde Eiroa, Manuel Requena, Ángeles Egido, Francisco Javier López, Iván Harsányi, Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski, Vladimir Nalevka, Jaroslav Boucek, Dragomir Draganov, CEDOBI: Al lado del gobierno republicano: Los brigadistas de la Europa del Este en la guerra . Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 2009, ISBN 9788484278917 , p. 156. Restricted preview in Google book search
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SURNAME | Frelau, Axel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laufer, Maxim (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak German-speaking writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dědice |
DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1987 |
Place of death | Prague |