Ernst Klein (journalist)

Ernst Klein (born April 15, 1876 in Vienna , † autumn 1951 in New York ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Ernst Klein attended high school in Vienna, Hamburg and Bremen . After secondary school he studied law and history in Vienna and Paris . In 1898 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 43 and became a reserve officer. He then worked as a journalist in Vienna and began writing with the successful comedy Die Erziehungs zum Don Juan .

Klein moved from Vienna to Berlin and worked there for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger . During his time in Berlin, he wrote the Graz scandal and other pornographic novels for the publisher Willy Schindler under a pseudonym ; His "sensational dramas" (also written under a pseudonym) such as Der seltsame Fall (based on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ), which was performed more than 350 times in Berlin alone, and Der, had greater commercial success than the quickly confiscated private Schindler prints Suicide club .

In 1908 Klein worked as a correspondent for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger and Moriz Benedikt's Wiener Neue Freie Presse in the Balkans, where he was an eyewitness to the outbreak of the Young Turkish Revolution in Monastir . In the summer of 1911 he pursued on behalf of the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger in Olympus efforts for the liberation of from klepht kidnapped Jena engineer Edwart judge . In the same year he reported on the uprising of the Albanians in Kosovo. In 1912 he returned to Vienna as editor of the NFP. When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, he went to Sofia as a correspondent . At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, Klein reported from the Austro-Hungarian headquarters ; later he reported to the front. Towards the end of the war he was deployed as head of Austro-Hungarian propaganda in Switzerland .

After the surrender of the Central Powers in November 1918, Klein went back to Berlin. There he worked as a correspondent for the Basler Nachrichten and wrote a large number of successful serial novels for the features of Berlin newspapers. A dozen of his novels were also made into films in the 1920s, including titles such as Der Herr Generaldirektor , The Great Duchess and The Lady with the Tiger Skin . His 1912 published Drama At World's End brought it in 1921 even an American film ( At the End of the World ), directed by the painter Penrhyn Stanlaws .

Klein, who was critical of the National Socialist regime, was expelled from Germany in August 1935 as the first victim of a campaign by Goebbels ' Propaganda Ministry against unpopular foreign journalists. He went back to Vienna and emigrated to the USA in 1938. In 1940 he published Road to Disaster , a pamphlet against Hitler's Germany and Prussia.

His novel When Women Fight was put on the list of literature to be sorted out by the GDR Ministry for Public Education .

Works

Pieces:

• 1905: Education to be Don Juan. Farce in 3 acts .
• 1907: Nicolai Oltean. Drama in four acts .
• 1908: (as "Edward Morton and JF Gunniver") The Strange Case / A Strange Case / A Double Life .
• 1909: (as "Edward Morton and JF Gunniver") The Suicide Club. Sensational drama in 3 acts .
• 1910: (as "JF Gunniver") Redder, the man with the monocle. An exotic comedy in 3 acts .
• 1912: Wiener Fratz. Operetta in one act . Libretto with MA Weikone . Music by Richard Fall .
• 1912: At the end of the world. Tragedy .
• 1913: the lapwing. Comedy in 3 acts .
• We are all just human .
• The woman of unlimited possibilities .
• The eternal strife .
• The bitch .

Novels:

• On the banks of the Drina. Novel from the time of the annexation . Goldschmidt, Berlin 1915.
• The fault of Lavinia Morland. Novel based on the film of the same name and the play Sidney Garrick's "Confession" . Scherl, Berlin 1921.
• The stolen professor. A romantic story from the Greek mountains . Eysler, Berlin 1923.
• The gold in the sea . Eysler, Berlin 1923.
• The man without a heart. The story of a girl and a stone . Eysler, Berlin 1923.
• The king without a land . Eysler, Berlin 1924.
• Bride robbery. A complicated crook story from the Balkans . Eysler, Berlin 1924.
• The General Director . Eysler, Berlin 1925.
• Derby . Keil, Leipzig 1926.
• The great duchess . Eysler, Berlin 1926.
• Fighter . Hackebeil, Berlin 1927.
• The man who is looking for his murderer . Knaur, Berlin 1927 (= Knaur Books, Vol. 12).
• Madame Circe . Hackebeil, Berlin 1928 (= Hackebeil books, vol. 3).
• The fight for Lady Evelyn . Publishing house for folk literature and art, Berlin 1928 (= Universal-Kriminal-Romane, Vol. 5).
• Slut . P. Langenscheidt, Berlin 1928 (later as: Eva in silk . P. Langenscheidt, Berlin 1929).
• Princess on vacation . Scherl, Berlin 1928 (= Scherl's two-mark novels, vol. 7).
• Sabine. A modern fate of women . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1928.
• The lady with the tiger skin . Scherl, Berlin 1929 (= Scherl's two-mark novels).
• Attack in the zoo . Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 1929 (= Glöckner books, vol. 1).
• The curse of the old man against man . Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 1929 (= Glöckner-Bücher, Vol. 30; also contains five grotesques by Tibor Yost ).
• Forest fire . Scherl, Berlin 1929.
• When women fight . Maschler, Berlin 1929 (= Maschler's earth circle books, vol. 23).
• There is a power . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1930 (= Deutsche-Illustrierte-Roman-Bibliothek, Vol. 1).
• "Love" . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1930 (= Deutsche-Illustrierte-Roman-Bibliothek, Vol. 3).
• One woman alone in the world . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1931 (= Deutsche-Illustrierte-Roman-Bibliothek, Vol. 7).
• Assault on Monte Carlo. Adventure novel . Moewig & Höffner, Dresden / Leipzig 1931.
• Second Hoppegarten . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1932 (= Deutsche-Illustrierte-Roman-Bibliothek, Vol. 15).
• Shots in the "Savoy" . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1932 (= Lutz Kriminalromane, Vol. 27).
• Escape from the shadow . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1933 (= Lutz Kriminalromane, Vol. 34).
• If a beautiful woman wants ... An adventure story from our day . Schlesische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin & J. Müller & Co., Vienna / Leipzig 1933.
• (as Robert Panderott) Fate between 10 and 6th novel from Berlin theater life . Berlin 1934.

Essays:

• Orient and Occident: What does the Aryan culture owe to the Semites? Bratislava 1935 (reprint from Allgemeine Jüdische Zeitung ).
• Road to disaster . Translated by Denis Weaver. G. Allen & Unwin, London 1940.

Pornographic novels as Fedor Essée etc .:

• (as "Fedor Essai") Sadistic novels . o. O., around 1902.
• (as "Fedor Essée") Bad girls . o. O., around 1906.
• (as "L. Robinson") Salon d'Albert. Flagellant mysteries of a Viennese house . o. O., around 1907.
• (as "Fedor Essée") dance of rods. Family scenes based on famous models . o. O., around 1909.
• (as "Fedor Essée") stories of the birch rod . Verlag flagellantischer Bücher, o. O., around 1910.
• (as "Fedor Essée") Whips and love orgies . o. O., around 1920.
• (as "Fedor Essée") Children's hospital . Erotic-flagellant novella from modern Berlin. Retold to a friend . o. O., around 1920.
• (as "F. Essée") Minnebirk Castle . o. O., 1921.

Pornographic novels as Richard Werther etc .:

• (anonymous) The Graz Scandal or The Naked Ball. Revelations from the secrets of an Austrian provincial capital . Graz 1907 (later also as Das Tanzkränzchen im Evakostüm , The Scandal in Graz and in a revised version as The Scandalous Ball ).
• (as "James Grunert") James Grunert. A novel from Berlin W . With 6 pictures by Emil Sartori . Schindler, Berlin 1908.
• (as "Richard Werther") Great nights, happy days. The novel by a Berlin lady . Schindler, Berlin 1908 (later also called Lore. The love life of a little Berlin woman and nights of love. Confessions of a Berlin “Fanny Hill” ).
• (as "W. v. St.") From the memories of a detective. Erotic adventures of a detective inspector . 2 volumes. Schindler, Berlin 1908 (later also known as The Lustful Detective ).
• (as "FS") The confession of a sinner. Memoirs of an erotomaniac . Schindler, Berlin 1908.
• (as "Richard Werther") The joy girl. Diary of a brothel whore . Schindler, Berlin 1909.
• (anonymous) Confessions of a writer . Schindler, Berlin 1909.
• (as "Richard Werther") From a doctor's memoir . Schindler, Berlin around 1909 (later also as memorabilia from the papers left by a doctor , from the diary of a doctor and the experiences of a gynecologist under the pseudonym “Phesoy Reyewsch”).
• (as "XYZ") Comtesse Marga. An erotic novel from Viennese society . Schindler, Berlin 1909.

Translations of classic pornography:

• (as "Richard Werther") The love sectarians. According to the files of a private French company of *** . Allegedly translated from French. Volume 1: The Family of Love . Volume 2: The advertisers . Schindler, Berlin 1908 (= documents on the moral history of mankind, vol. 14).
• (as "Richard Werther") Flossie, the fifteen year old Venus. From someone who knew the delightful goddess and sacrificed at her altar . Translation of Flossie, a Venus of Fifteen. By One Who Knew This Charming Godess and Worshiped at Her Shrine . Schindler, Berlin 1908 (= documents on the moral history of mankind, vol. 15).
• (as "Richard Werther") "ED": The glass house. Morals from the time of the 2nd Empire . Translation of La maison de verre . Schindler, Berlin 1908.
• (as "Tom Swift") "Maurice Guy Viscount de Varause": The lustful sisters . Translation of Les nonnes lubriques . Fritz Freund, Vienna 1910.

Remarks

1. ↑ http://korso.at/content/view/2437/98/
2. ↑ The Berlin publisher Willy Schindler published under the pseudonym “Dr. Willy Heine ”published a number of pornographic works from 1906 to 1911, some in series such as the documents on the moral history of mankind . The volumes appeared as private prints in editions of 300 to 500 copies, often with fictitious places of publication, and were sold to members of his Association of German and Austrian Bibliophiles (from 1908: Association for the Study of Sexology ).
3. ^ The Screen . In: New York Times , August 15, 1921.
4. ^ Nazis Act to Curb Foreign Writers. Swiss Correspondent Ordered to Leave Reich and “Quite a Number” May Have to Go . In: New York Times , August 3, 1935.
5. ↑ Kassel List .
6. ↑ In the exhibition catalog Austrian Authors in America: Skill and Achievement of Austrian Literary Emigration from 1938 in the United States (Amerika-Haus, Vienna 1970) two further novels are listed ( The Daughter of Valero , no year, and Shots at Lake Geneva , 1932), which cannot be proven as book editions.
7. ↑ The feature film Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland was made in 1920 under the direction of Joe May , who then produced the film adaptation of Klein's novel Derby (director: Max Reichmann ) in 1926 .
8. ↑ The attribution of this novel is not completely certain: The same publisher also published a new edition of Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland in 1931 , but from 1932 to 1936 (and then in other Leipzig publishers) a series of adventure novels by the author Ernst Klein , the probably have a different author. The series includes the novels The Man with Many Names (1932), The Black Three (1933), The Women’s Farm (1935), The Outlaw (1935), Pronto (1935), Jim Tidies Up (1936), The Treasure Graves (1936) ), Detour to Isabel (1937), Hank Red's Legacy (1937), Jeff Durand's Millions (1937), Hello Meggy, watch out! (1938), Frank Skinner's Guests (1938), The Night of August 4th (1938), The Singing Mountain (1938) and The Man Without a Name (1939). In the Kürschner (Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar: Nekrolog 1936–1970 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-11-004381-5 ) the author of these works is Ernst Klein (* July 5, 1907 in Metz; † around 1949 in Stuttgart), editor in Recklinghausen, who also published a glorification booklet The Work of the First Standard-Bearers of National Socialism in Recklinghausen in 1934 . Even less clear is the authorship of the 1939 work Der Tor von Nazareth (1939), which was repeatedly and implausibly ascribed to the Austrian Klein.
9. ↑ The attribution of the works written under the pseudonym Fedor Essée or Essai cannot be considered completely certain. Various pseudonym lexicons indicate that Klein was the author of these works belonging to the flagellantism genre; elsewhere, however, a Viennese author named Franz Wolfbauer (1871–?) is accepted as the author.
10. ↑ The "famous role model" refers to Arthur Schnitzler's round dance .
11. ↑ The authorship of this novel about the erotic escapades of a banker's son was often attributed to a descendant of the famous banker Gerson von Bleichröder (either his grandson Hans von Bleichröder or a Werner von Bleichröder) , probably for reasons of attention economy. The information on Klein's authorship of this novel, the Comtesse Marga and the works published as "Richard Werther" follow Volume 4 (supplementary volume) of the Bild-Lexikon der Erotik published in 1931 by the Vienna Institute for Sexual Research . The article on Werther there ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )) is based on communications from Willy Schindler to the article author "Schr." (Di Leo Schidrowitz (1894–1956), in whose publishing house for cultural research the image lexicon appeared from 1928).
12. ↑ Indexed by the Federal Inspectorate by decision No. I 42/87 of June 16, 1987 (PDF; 59 kB)
13. ↑ An anagram by Joseph Schweyer, a Munich bookseller.
14. ↑ The novel is wrongly attributed to Friedrich Kohlhoff or Udo von Minneheimb.
15. ↑ First published in London in 1897 and occasionally ascribed to Algernon Swinburne .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Ernst Klein in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Ernst Klein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Klein at filmportal.de