Dietrich Theden

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Dietrich Theden

Dietrich Theden (born June 15, 1857 in Bansrade / Holstein , † November 1909 in Funchal / Madeira ) was a German writer .

Life

Dietrich Theden was the son of a farmer . He attended elementary school in his hometown and prepared for the profession of elementary school teacher . After working as an assistant teacher for a few years and completing the teachers' seminar in Eckernförde , he worked from 1879 to 1884 as a teacher at orphanages in Wandsbek and Hamburg . During this time he published a "Guide to Youth Literature" and his first narrative works. From 1884 Theden was part of the editorial team of the " Gartenlaube " in Leipzig , which in 1888 moved to Stuttgart . From 1890 he published the youth magazine "Universum" and from 1894 to 1896 the weekly magazine "Zur Gute Stunden". From 1896 he was a freelance writer.

Dietrich Theden was the author of novels and short stories ; he operated u. a. in the field of youth literature and crime fiction . He also edited the works of Friedrich Gerstäcker and Balduin Möllhausen .

From an afterword by Barbara Neuhaus (source: Verlag Das Neue Berlin / GDR 1985): “Today the author is almost forgotten. Not yet thirty, he exchanged the rural surroundings for the metropolis of Berlin. His experiences as an educator and resident of a big city left traces in his only crime novel Misanthropists , 1904. This story speaks for Theden's sense of justice. He fights for truth, honesty and goodness. It is the Berlin between the first and second founding years. Around Potsdamer Platz, where Theden's characters mainly act, there are vacant apartment buildings and business premises, sleazy lawyers cheat their clients, brokers and speculators have lost their purchases, and poverty haunts the city. Theden does not value this as a reflection of social conditions, he regards the appearances as God's will and thus of order or as the result of human behavior. The educator Dietrich Theden also occasionally looks through, who warns against treating children and adolescents with emotions and incomprehension. He continues what he has previously represented in his numerous children's books. But what inspired the writer to undertake the adventures of his main protagonist Hunter alias "misanthropist" in Australia? After Bismarck's colonial policy, distant countries became more interesting for citizens and petty bourgeoisie. The general ideas about it were associated with danger and wealth. And you always wanted to get to know more of it. The consumers of the entertaining magazines for which Theden worked as an editor wanted to feast on so-called true reports with a shudder. Obviously Theden wanted to satisfy needs and offer something new. The weekly papers of the time may have been the inspiration for the design of the characters as well as for the language and style. The author is in no way different from the entertaining writers of the turn of the century. Reading was no longer a privilege in Theden's time. The bourgeois daughters rummaged in their circles, the maids secretly in the kitchen. They all wanted to be excited by the bad guys and come to terms with the good guys. "

Works

  • Guide through youth literature , Hamburg 1883
  • In the foreign , Leipzig 1883
  • For the child , Leipzig 1884
  • Let me tell you , Leipzig 1888
  • Youth greetings , Dresden [u. a.] 1891
  • Under the spell of passion , Berlin 1894
  • A defender , Stuttgart 1896. ( digitized version )
  • On the run and other stories , Breslau 1898. ( digitized version )
  • The Friesenpastor , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1898
  • Frauenliebe , Breslau 1899
  • In zigzag , Breslau 1899. ( digitized version )
  • The lawyer builder , Stuttgart 1900. ( digitized version )
  • A defender , 1900
  • Herzgold , Dresden 1901
  • New book of short stories , Breslau 1901
  • Life for life , Berlin 1903. ( digitized version )
  • Misanthropists , 1904. ( digitized version )
  • Finely spun , Bonn 1905
  • To the German type , Berlin 1906
  • Riddle of love , Leipzig 1910
  • Misanthropists , Berlin 1912
  • The second penance , Stuttgart 1913. ( digitized version )
  • The long miracle and other crime stories , Stuttgart 1914

Editing

  • Friedrich Jacobs : Alwin and Theodor , Stuttgart 1883
  • Friedrich Jacobs : Small stories from the old pastor of Mainau , Stuttgart 1884
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : Selected works , Jena
    • 1.1. The regulators in Arkansas , 1889
    • 1.2. The Mississippi River Pirates , 1889
    • 1.3. Gold! , 1889
    • 1.4. Under the equator , 1889
    • 1.5. To America! , 1889
    • 1.6. To America! , 1889
    • 1.7. Tahiti , 1889
    • 1.8. The Colonie , 1889
    • 1.9. A mother , 1889
    • 1.10. Mississippi Pictures , 1889
    • 1.11. The Heir , 1889
    • 1.12. In the bush , 1889
    • 2.1. The two convicts , 1890
    • 2.2. Light and Dark , 1890
    • 2.3. Under the Pehuenchen , 1890
    • 2.4. Blue water , 1890
    • 2.5. Two republics , 1890
    • 2.6. Two republics , 1890
    • 2.7. From two parts of the world , 1890
    • 2.8. The art rider , 1891
    • 2.9. Travel , 1891
    • 2.10. Travel , 1891
    • 2.11. Forays and hunting trips through the United States of North America , 1891
    • 2.12. In the corner window, 1891
  • Friedrich Jacobs : The evenings in Mainau , Stuttgart 1890
  • In the magic of poetry , Dresden [u. a.] 1891
  • Wilhelm Hey : Fables and Poems with fifty-five sayings , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1893
  • Robert Reinick : songs and stories , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1894
  • Auf der Höhe , Breslau 1897
  • Balduin Möllhausen : Illustrated novels, travel and adventure, Leipzig
    • 1.1. The ferryman on the Canadians , 1906
    • 1.2. The two yachts , 1906
    • 1.3. By millions , 1907
    • 1.4. Montague House , 1907
    • 1.5. The pirate lieutenant , 1907
    • 1.6. The highland piper , 1907
    • 1.7. The Consul's Daughters , 1907
    • 1.8. Captain Eisenfinger's log book , 1907
    • 1.9. Four fragments , 1908
    • 1.10. The Melville family , 1908

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personal data
SURNAME Theden, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bansrade
DATE OF DEATH November 1909
Place of death Funchal