Ernst Wolfgang Freissler

Ernst Wolfgang Freissler (pseudonym EW Günter ; born July 7, 1884 in Troppau , Austria-Silesia , † February 25, 1937 in Stadt-Olbersdorf , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian-Silesian author, editor and translator.

Life

Freissler was the son of the director of the Silesian state mental hospital. He was initially a bank clerk before he later became an editor. He has published some of his works under the code name EW Günter. From 1930 to 1934 Freissler lived as a lecturer for foreign literature at the Berlin publishing house S. Fischer Verlag in Zeuthen , before working as a translator in Berlin from 1934 , including works by Joseph Conrad ( The Secret Agent ) and George Bernard Shaw . Freissler was also an employee of Simplicissimus and Königsberger Rundfunk.

Works

• Sulfur bloom , short stories, 1913
• The courtyard to the nut trees , novellas, 1916
• Young shoots , novel, 1922
• The drive in the evening , short stories, 1926
• The Bell War , 1927
• Escape from the land of milk and honey , novel, 1935
• The thunderstorm year , 1936

literature

• German Literature Lexicon , ed. by Wilhelm Kosch, Stuttgart 1947–1958
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Nekrolog 1936–1970
• Peter Walther, Muses and Graces in the Mark: 750 Years of Literature in Brandenburg
• Adalbert Schmidt , poetry and poet of Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries , volume 2
• German-Austrian Literature Society, Litterarian echo , Volume 16, Deutsche Verlags-anstalt, 1914

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Wolfgang Freissler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Freissler, Ernst Wolfgang . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Short biography and information on the work of EW Freissler at Literaturport