Eugen Ferdinand Hoffmann

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Eugen Ferdinand Hoffmann ( pseudonym for Karl Theodor Ferdinand Hoffmann , born October 6, 1885 in Ruhrort , † April 8, 1971 in Höchberg , Würzburg district ) was a German writer .

Life

Eugen Ferdinand Hoffmann was the son of a miner . He completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as an industrial clerk in various cities . From 1909 he lived in Constance . There he began to write literary texts. His poems, which appeared exclusively in literary magazines , were initially influenced by neo-romanticism and later by expressionism . Although Hoffmann published three novels between 1938 and 1940 , his success as an author was denied, so that he was almost entirely forgotten when he died in 1971. A selection from his estate was published in 1996.

Works

  • The way leads over bridges , Leipzig 1938
  • The adventurous son of happiness , Leipzig 1939
  • Infatuation in autumn , Leipzig 1940
  • "The world is racing towards crazy creation" , Eggingen 1996

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