Emil Sandt

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Emil Carl Otto Max Sandt (born December 27, 1864 in Mittelwalde , Glatz district , province of Silesia , † August 20, 1938 in Hamburg ) was a German customs officer , playwright and writer who was best known for his science fiction novels .

life and work

Advertisement in the Laibacher Zeitung , No. 180, of August 8, 1907 for Sandts' science fiction Cavete! .

Originally from Lower Silesia , Sandt was the son of Carl Sandt and his wife Valesca, nee. Claasen. From 1888 he worked as a customs officer, from 1907 to 1918 as a customs inspector in Hamburg and was also active as a writer. After the publication of his first work Cavete! In 1906 he was celebrated by parts of the German press as the "German Jules Verne ". The science fiction about Zeppelin technology, which was still very new at the time, suddenly made Sandt famous. Cavete! was so successful that the work saw more than two dozen new editions in the next 20 years and was extensively appreciated by " Graf Zeppelin " himself.

family

Emil Sandt had been with Margarethe Pauline, born on April 30, 1892. Klahn (born April 27, 1864) married in Hamburg.

Works (selection)

  • 1906: Cavete! A story about whose bizarre threats one shouldn't forget
  • 1910: In the ether. A lonely will
  • 1912: The sea of ​​light
  • 1916: The carousel of life
  • 1924: Collected Works (7 volumes)
  • 1926: The forge
  • 1931: The trio religion - morality - technology and God
  • 1934: Gorch Fock and me

Emil Sandt's estate is now in the Hamburg State and University Library .

literature

  • Robert N. Bloch : Bibliography of utopian and fantastic literature 1750–1950. Munniksma, Giessen 1984, pp. 113-114.
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 6, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 116 .
  • Henning Franke: The political-military science fiction in Germany 1904-1914. A popular genre in its literary environment. Lang, Frankfurt / Main 1985.
  • Rüdiger Haude: Border flights. Political symbolism of aviation before the First World War. The example of Aachen. Bohlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20059-6 .
  • Manfred Nagl: Science Fiction in Germany. Investigations into the genesis, sociography and ideology of fantastic mass literature. TVV, 1972
  • Claus Ritter : Struggle for Utopolis or The Militarization of the Future , Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-373-00083-1 , pp. 180-185.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Best. 332-5 registry offices, civil status registers, death registers, 1876–1950, Hamburg State Archives, Germany, In: Ancestry.de
  2. ↑ Inge Stephan, Hans Gerhard Winter (ed.): Love that throws anchor in the abyss. Authors and the literary field in Hamburg in the 20th century. Argument, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88619-380-2 , p. 65.
  3. ↑ Aviation and Customs Border. P. 203.
  4. ^ Hans Waldemar Fischer: Hamburger Kulturbilderbogen. A cultural history 1909–1922. Dölling and Galitz 1998, p. 187.
  5. ↑ Karl Schuemacher: The publican in the literature, art and politics. In: The customs officer in the history of literature. Tübingen 1910, p. 221.
  6. ^ Hans Frey: progress and fiasco. The first 100 years of German science fiction. Golkond, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-946503-32-3 .
  7. ^ Roland Innerhofer: German Science Fiction 1870-1914. Reconstruction and analysis of the beginnings of a genre. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98514-1 , p. 79.
  8. ↑ Link to the estate
personal data
SURNAME Sandt, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emil Carl Otto Max Sandt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelwalde , District of Glatz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1938
Place of death Hamburg