Eduard Fiker

Eduard Fiker

Eduard Fiker (born November 21, 1902 in Prague ; † March 3, 1961 there ) was a Czech writer , translator and scenarioist .

Life

Eduard Fiker was the son of a teacher, completed a few semesters at the secondary school on Vinohrady and at the Prague Technical School, but had to finish his studies after the death of his father. He went to England for a year . After his return he did military service and then played as a violinist in the Rococo Theater and at the Grand Operetta (Velká opereta). In the early thirties he began writing detective novels and adventure books. In 1936 he married the actress Lola Innemannová and two years later took the position of editor at the Melantrich publishing house . Here he was mainly responsible for the magazine Unruhe (Rozruch). After the war, he took a job as a film scenarist in 1951, but later devoted himself only to literature.

Works

From 1933 to the end of the war he published more than forty books, of which the crime novels The Protector of the Poor (Ochránce nebohých), The White Cross (Bílý kříž), The Woman from the Gray House (Paní ze šedivého domu) were particularly successful. Most of the stories took place at the request of the publishers in an English or American environment. However, some of the stories also take place in Bohemia , such as The Secret House (Tajemný dům), Your Game (Její hra), The Duplicate Key (Paklíč), The Zinc Way (Zinková cesta). In addition to crime novels, Fiker also wrote a number of satirical books and adventure novels.

After the war he became famous for his sci-fi crime novels in the CL series and for the spy novel Kilometer Nineteen (Kilometr devatenáct). The films made according to his script are still too often broadcast on Czech television , especially The Step into Darkness (Krok do tmy), The Thirteenth Revier (Třináctý revír), The Murderer Waits on the Rails (Na kolejích čeká vrah) .

Fiker mainly translated from English and wrote four plays. A total of ninety titles were published by him.

Its greatest contribution to Czech crime fiction was that it began at a time when Czech crime fiction was still in its infancy and only found followers through Karel Čapek and Emil Vachek .

Published in German

• The golden four. Publishing house of the Ministry of National Defense , 1956, DNB 573941181 .
• Fish in the net. Rowohlt , 1964, DNB 451264355 .
• Command 42. Domowina Publishing House, 1961, DNB 451264363 .
• The zinc coffin. Rowohlt, 1967, DNB 456615962 .
• The three suitcases. Publishing house of the Ministry of National Defense, 1959, DNB 573941262 .
• Series C L. 3rd edition. Artia, Prague 1964, DNB 573941327 .

Film adaptations

Literary template

• 1963: Angst ( Strach ) - based on the novel Kilometer Stone 19
• 1967: Secret code B / 13 - based on the novel The Golden Four

script

• 1945: The 13th Revier ( 13th Revir )
• 1954: Fateful Traces ( Na konci mesta )
• 1957: The Fake ( Padelek )

Web links

• Eduard Fiker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Eduard Fiker in the catalog of the German National Library