Bruno Schwietzke

Bruno Schwietzke (born June 21, 1896 ; † after 1938) was a German writer .

Life

Bruno Schwietzke worked in the advertising department of the Bertelsmann publishing house in Gütersloh . In addition, he published narrative works in the thirties . His greatest success was the book "... died in Flanders", which was distributed in more than 40,000 copies, about the fighting on the western front of the First World War . In 1946 Schwietzke's war books were on the " List of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet zone of occupation . Today, for example, he is received in Dutch specialist publications as a witness to the First World War from a German perspective.

Works

• The spring root . Gütersloh 1937.
• Death drums before Ypres . Gütersloh 1937
• Friedel Lustig's adventure . Gütersloh 1938.
• In an armored car to the Stone Age hunters of the Sahara . (= Vol. 38 of the Exciting Stories ). C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1938.
• Richthofen and the red relay . (= Vol. 36 of the Exciting Stories ). C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1938.
• German fighters in the green hell of Cameroon . (= Vol. 42 of the Exciting Stories ). C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1938.
• ... died in Flanders . Gütersloh 1938.
• Summer moon in Flanders . Gütersloh 1939.

Translations

• Alphonse Daudet : Marriage in Paris . Gütersloh 1952.
• Ion L. Idriess : Lasseter's last ride . Gütersloh 1937.
• Émile Zola : A leaf of love . Gütersloh 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Heijster: War: Ieper, het van martyrdom 14/18 door Duitse ogen . Lannoo, Tielt 2006, p. 157.
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