Cecil Scott Forester

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C. S. Forester (* 27. August 1899 in Cairo , Egypt as Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith ; † 2. April 1966 in Fullerton , California ) was a British writer and journalist .

Life

His father, a British junior official in the Egyptian Ministry of Education , had him raised in England. He broke off the subsequent medical studies and began his writing career in 1921 under the pseudonym Cecil Scott Forester . He wrote war, sea and adventure novels as well as travelogues.

Forester worked as a correspondent for the Times in London , during the Spanish Civil War in Spain , and in Prague . Since 1932 the writer has also worked repeatedly as a screenwriter for Hollywood . The films based on his works include a. African Queen and King's Admiral .

During World War II, Forester worked for the Department of Information in Washington, DC

As a writer, he achieved an overwhelming success in 1937 with Der Kapitän ( The Happy Return ), where he introduced his sea hero Horatio Hornblower . Here and in Hornblower's subsequent adventures in An Spaniensüsten ( A Ship of the Line , 1938) and Under Waving Flag ( Flying Colors , 1938), he revived the great days of the British Navy. Eleven Hornblower novels had appeared by 1962.

Forester died on April 2, 1966 without having finished his last Hornblower novel.

reception

The King's Admiral is the film adaptation of three books from Forester's multi-volume cycle about the ( fictional ) sea hero Horatio Hornblower and his career at the time of the Napoleonic Wars . With the lively and captivating descriptions of life on board British warships from 1794 to 1823, Forester founded the "naval historical novel", a genre that was popular especially in England.

Forester was one of the most widely read authors of the 1950s and 1960s. His novels reached millions of copies.

The "CS Forester Society", founded in Great Britain, preserves the memory of Forester worldwide.

Works

Hornblower cycle

  • The happy return . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1980 ( EA London 1937).
German: The captain . Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-25655-4 .
  • A ship of the line . Little, Brown, Boston, Mass. 1985, ISBN 0-316-28936-1 (EA London 1938).
German: On Spain's coasts . Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-26263-5 (EA Hamburg 1947)
German: Under a waving flag . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-548-23789-4 (EA Hamburg 1949)
  • The Commodore . Joseph Books, London 1951 (EA London 1945)
German: The Commodore . Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-24175-1 (EA Hamburg 1948)
German: Lord Hornblower . Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-24171-9 .
  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1991, ISBN 0-14-001115-3 (EA London 1950)
German: Ensign to the Sea Hornblower . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1963 (EA Hamburg 1949)
German: Lieutenant Hornblower . Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-89350-606-3 .
  • Hornblower and the "Atropos" . Penguin, Harmondsworth 2006, ISBN 0-14-102504-2 (EA London 1953)
English: Hornblower becomes commandant . Ullstein, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-26261-9 .
  • Hornblower in the West Indies . Sphere Books, London 1980, ISBN 0-7221-0508-8 (EA London 1958)
English: Hornblower in the West Indies . Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-26267-8 .
  • Hornblower and the "Hotspur" . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-14-002901-X (EA London 1962)
German: Hornblower on the "Hotspur" . Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-24310-X (EA Hamburg 1967)
  • Hornblower and the Crisis. An unfinished novel . Joseph Books, London 1972, ISBN 0-7181-0181-2 (EA London 1967)
German: Zapfenstreich . Ullstein, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-548-26268-6 .

Individual novels

  • Pawn Among Kings . Methuen, London 1924.
  • Payment deferred . Lythway Press, Bath 1977, ISBN 0-85046-717-9 (EA London 1926)
    • German: deferred payment . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-548-10564-5 .
    • New translation: cruel guilt . dtv premium, Munich March 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-26045-9 (translated by Britta Mümmler).
  • Love Lies Dreaming . John Lane Books, London 1927.
  • The Wonderful Week . John Lane Books, London 1927.
  • The Shadow of the Hawk . 1928.
  • Brown on Resolution . Joseph Books, London 1969 (EA London 1929)
  • Plain Murder . Pan Books, London 1970 (EA London 1930).
    • English: a smooth murder . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-548-10612-9 .
    • New translation: merciless greed . dtv premium, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-26020-6 (translated by Britta Mümmler).
  • Death to the French Triad Press, St. Albans 1977, ISBN 0-583-12820-3 (EA London 1932)
  • The gun . Longmans, Green, London 1964 (EA London 1933)
    • German: pride and passion. Story from Napoleon's Spanish War . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1960 (EA Hamburg 1957).
  • The Peacemaker . Joseph Books, London 1974 (EA London 1934).
  • The African Queen . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-14-001112-9 (EA London 1935)
  • The General . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1979, ISBN 0-14-001117-X (EA London 1936)
  • Captain from Connecticut . Joseph Books, London 1954 (EA London 1941)
    • English: The Captain from Connecticut . Scherz Verlag, Bern 1962.
  • The Ship . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1965 (EA London 1943)
    • German: The ship . Krüger Verlag, Hamburg 1966.
  • The Sky and the Forest . Joseph Books, London 1948.
  • Randall and the River of Time. 2nd Edition. Joseph Books, London 1951.
    • German: Randall . Krüger Verlag, Hamburg 1952.
  • The Good Shepherd . Joseph Books, London 1955.
    • German: convoy 1943 . Eduard Kaiser Verlag, Vienna 1963 (EA Hamburg 1957)
  • The pursued . Penguin, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-14-119808-8 (EA London 2011; originated in 1935, but was only published posthumously).
    • German: fatal impotence. Detective novel . dtv premium, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-24971-3 (translated by Britta Mümmler).

Children's books

  • Poo-Poo and the Dragons . Little, Brown, Boston, Mass. 1942.
  • The Barbary Pirates . Macdonald Publ., London 1956.

Plays

  • U 97. A play in three acts . The Bodley Head, London 1931.
    • German: UB 116. Play in three acts . Drei-Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1931 (translated by Karl Lerbs )
  • Nurse Cavell . Lane Booke Books, London 1933 (with Carl Erich Bechhofer Roberts).

Non-fiction

  • Napoleon and his Court . Methuen, London 1924.
  • Josephine , Napoleon's Empress . Methuen, London 1925.
  • Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy . Methuen, London 1927.
  • Louis XIV. King of France and Navarra . Methuen, London 1928.
  • Nelson . Chatham Publ., London 2001, ISBN 1-86176-178-3 (EA London 1929)
    • German: Nelson. 3. Edition. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1947.
  • Voyage of the Annie Marble. French waterways . Lane Publ., London 1929.
  • The Annie Marble in Germany . Lane Publ. London 1930.
    • German: A boat trip in Germany . Krüger Verlag, Hamburg 1938.
  • Marionettes at Home. With Appendix "An example of a puppet play" . Joseph Books, London 1936.
  • The Earthly Paradise . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1962 (EA London 1940)
  • The age of fighting sail. The story of the naval war of 1812 . Chapman Billies, Sandwich, Mass. 1977, ISBN 0-939218-06-2
  • Hunting the Bismarck . Joseph Books, London 1959.
    • German: The last voyage of the Bismarck . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-548-22430-X .
  • The Hornblower Companion . Joseph Books, London 1977, ISBN 0-07-180187-1 (EA London 1964)
    • German: Hornblower Lotse . Krüger Verlag, Hamburg 1965.
  • Long Before Forty . 1967.

Film adaptations

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the US domestic market, the title was changed to Beat to Quarters .
  2. ↑ Former title: Buccaneers of the Seas or The Happy Homecoming .
  3. ↑ Former title: Commander Hornblower .
  4. ↑ For the US domestic market, the title was changed to One wonderful week .
  5. ↑ Former title: Hunter Dodd. 1936 or The Green Englishman. 1950.
  6. ↑ Former title: The cannon .
  7. ↑ Other title: Germany, the journey of the UB 116 .
  8. ↑ Former title: The Naval War of 1812 .
  9. ↑ Former title: The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck .
  10. ↑ Previous title: CS Forester .

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personal data
SURNAME Forester, Cecil Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1966
Place of death Fullerton , California