Cosmus Flam

Cosmus Flam ( pseudonym ), birth name Josef (Joseph) Pietsch (born February 21, 1899 in Groß-Nädlitz , Province of Silesia ; † ( missing ) January 1945, probably in Breslau ) was a German writer.

Life

Josef Pietsch grew up in Breslau. After studying at the University of Breslau , which he completed with a doctorate, he was a civil servant in Berlin and Breslau, most recently as a member of the government . At times he was active as a traveling preacher . Shortly before the Battle of Breslau , he was drafted as a soldier. Presumably he was killed in the fighting and has been missing since then.

Works

• Athanasius comes to the big city or The Animal Pit . Roman, Bergstadtverlag , Breslau 1930.
• The last gem. The path of the art dealer Vincenz Josua Born . Roman, Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1931.
• The salt storks. A story from the Frederician era . Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1934. (also with the subtitle A smuggler's story from the Jizera Mountains , 1959)
• The pilgrimages of Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg and how he built up the Silesian Jerusalem in Albendorf to the glory of God . Roman, Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1935.
• with Otto Heinrich Fleischer (Ed.): Die Winterpostille. A reading and singing book for winter and Christmas . Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1936 (new edition 1955)
• A land emerges from the twilight . Roman, Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1938. (Reprint Stuttgart 1949; abridged new edition with the subtitle For young Germans, selected and introduced by Friedrich Stumpe . 1955; New edition Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1968).
• with Johannes Grüger : Two boys experience Germany . East German Publishing House, Breslau 1940.

literature

• Wojciech Kunicki : The Cosmus Flam case. A Silesian tragedy. In: Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen Convivium, 2001, pp. 129–153.

Web links

• Literature by and about Cosmus Flam in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Literature by and about Cosmus Flam in the WorldCat bibliographic database .
• Biographical note at the Polish Central Library