Carl Falkenhorst

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Carl Falkenhorst , abbreviated to C. Falkenhorst (born February 5, 1853 in Zakrzewo ; † October 27, 1913 in Jena ; real name: Stanislaus von Jezewski ) was a German writer and employee of the family magazine Die Gartenlaube .

life and work

He studied natural sciences and then worked mainly as a freelance writer. From 1904 he was editor of the family magazine Die Gartenlaube . Falkenhorst wrote non-fiction books and adventure stories that were set mainly in Africa in the then completely new German colonies. He achieved his first success in 1889 with the trilogy An African Leather Stocking , with which he followed up on the works of James Fenimore Cooper . In 1890, in the historical adventure novel Eldoradofahrer , he told of the Welser train to Venezuela; The focus in East Africa Driver is a German East Indiaman in the Portuguese service of the 16th century.

The twelve-volume library of memorable research trips was published in 1890/91. The first six volumes deal with the discovery of Africa, the following five with the rest of the world and marine research. Falkenhorst never traveled to the countries he wrote about himself.

From 1893 to 1900 he wrote his ten-volume series Jung-Deutschland in Afrika , closely based on the reports of the explorers and colonial pioneers, which he enriched with ethnological and cultural-historical material. In 1903 the two volumes Young Germany in the South Seas appeared as a counterpart . His two-volume non-fiction book Black Princes (1891/92) is an unusual attempt for its time to bring the history of the African empires and their rulers closer to a wider audience.

Works

  • The magician of Kilima-Ndjaro. Adler's war and hunting adventure in East Africa . 1st and 2nd edition, Leipzig 1888
  • On the heights of German Africa . Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1890 ( digitized )
  • Black Princes, Part 2: East Africa . Leipzig 1892.
  • In Cameroon. Migratory bird travel and hunting adventure. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1893. This novel is one of a total of three on the basis of which Gouaffo analyzes the narrative means with which colonial authors try to bring the colonies, in this case Cameroon, closer to the German reading public.
  • To the snow dome of Kilimanjaro , Dresden / Leipzig without year (1896)

literature

  • Albert Gouaffo: Knowledge and Culture Transfer in a Colonial Context. The example of Cameroon - Germany (1884–1919). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3754-2 , page 27f.
  • Christof Hamann, Alexander Honold: Kilimanjaro. The German story of an African mountain. Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-3634-3 , pages 129-132.
  • 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

Wikisource: Stanislaus von Jezewski  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data on www.abenteuerroman.info
  2. ^ Text Deutscher Fensterschmuck , Die Gartenlaube 1893, in: Die Gartenlaube as a document of its time , compiled and provided with introductions by Magdalene Zimmermann, dtv, Munich 1967, page 246f.
  3. ↑ alte-buecherwelt.de
  4. ↑ Gouaffo 2007, page 88ff.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenhorst, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jezewski, Stanislaus von (real name); Falkenhorst, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Zakrzewo
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1913
Place of death Jena