Franz Taut

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Franz Taut ( pseudonym for Franz Otto Karl Paul Jacob Freiherr von Tautphoeus , born May 6, 1908 in Munich , † March 14, 1985 in Bad Tölz ) was a German writer .

Life

Franz Taut came from an aristocratic family, his father was the officer Otto Max Joseph Fritz Jacob Freiherr von Tautphoeus, his mother Rita nee Freiin von Gersonn zu Ghersburg. Franz Taut grew up in Munich. After graduating from high school , he joined the Reichswehr , from which he left in 1928. Then he went to South America . He spent the following years in Venezuela , Colombia and the West Indies , where he worked as a farm overseer. After 1933 he returned to Germany and worked as a journalist for newspapers such as the Berliner Tageblatt and the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger . Since 1935 he has also published successful adventure novels in which he processed his experiences in Latin America .

In August 1939 Franz Taut was drafted into the Wehrmacht , of which he was an officer and war correspondent . Taut took part in the entire Russian campaign and in April 1945 fell into American captivity in the Ruhr Basin . After his release in 1946 he settled as a freelance writer in Wolfratshausen . From 1948 onwards he published novels with exotic themes; from 1958 Taut then mainly served the genre of the war novel.

Works

  • Candelaria , Berlin 1935
  • The Santa Isabel mine , Berlin 1935
  • Oil on Catatumbo , Berlin 1935
  • The ranch in the valley of summer , Berlin 1935
  • Santa Rita on the river , Berlin 1935
  • Seaman Paul , Berlin 1935
  • Adventure in the jungle , Berlin 1936
  • The Prince of Ibaugé and other stories , Berlin 1936
  • The house on the jungle river , Leipzig 1937
  • The Northwestern Union , Leipzig 1937
  • Seaman without a ship , Berlin 1937
  • The slave camp , Leipzig 1937
  • Emeralds on the Rio Cocui , Leipzig 1937
  • A Thousand Days of Tramp , Berlin 1937
  • The muleteers , Berlin 1938
  • Fliers over the jungle and savannah , Berlin 1939
  • Macú , Berlin 1942
  • Lost gold , Berlin 1943
  • Pedro , Stuttgart 1948
  • Hacienda am Strom , Munich 1949
  • Embers of the South , Munich 1950
  • Conchita and the engineer , Munich 1951
  • Beyond the green hell , Munich 1951
  • The son of the Red Jaguar , Augsburg 1951
  • Flames over South America , Bleckede Castle a. d. Elbe 1952
  • Shipwreck of the Libertad , Munich 1952
  • Rubber at Caquetá , Bremen 1953
  • Colombian romance , Goslar 1953
  • On the mule track , Stuttgart 1954
  • A ring for Carillo , Munich 1956
  • Manuel and Modestita , Munich 1957
  • Crown Princess Cecilie , Bad Wörishofen 1958
  • March destination: Caucasus , Munich 1958
  • The Colonel without a Knight's Cross , Munich 1958
  • She came from Don , Bad Wörishofen in 1958
  • Order from above , Rosenheim 1959
  • Red Star on the Black Sea , Rosenheim 1959
  • Brigade of the Damned , Bayreuth 1960
  • Death rode with them , Bayreuth 1960
  • Standgericht , Rosenheim 1961 (together with Georg Seberg)
  • The witness , Bayreuth 1961
  • The silent comrades , Rosenheim 1962
  • Blown tracks , Rosenheim 1962
  • Evening report , Rosenheim 1965
  • The fortress between the fronts , Rastatt / Baden 1966
  • Jarú , Rosenheim 1968
  • Without tanks, without roads , Rosenheim 1968
  • Krasnodar , Rastatt 1969
  • Mana Tara , Rosenheim 1969
  • In love with my wife , Munich 1970
  • Pedro on the run , Hanover 1972
  • "Wettersturz", Bergroman, Groebenzell, 1974?
  • Where's Moreno, General? , Munich 1979
  • Attack on the world's oil , Munich 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Taut, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz Otto Karl Paul Jacob Freiherr von Tautphoeus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1985
Place of death Bad Tölz