Franz von Schmidt
Franz von Schmidt (* 1895 in Darmstadt ; † after 1960) was a German writer .
Life
Franz von Schmidt took part in the First World War as a lieutenant . He later lived in Berlin-Zehlendorf . He published literary works in magazines and newspapers , especially in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung and, since the late 1930s, in book form. He had particular success with his first book I am called Victor Mors , published in 1937 , an autobiographical account of his time as a prisoner of war in Siberia , of which more than 250,000 copies were sold up to the 1960s, and with the novel Amba, the Lord who it brought to a total circulation of over 150,000 copies. Since the 1950s, von Schmidt wrote mainly on criminal topics.
Works
- My name is Victor Mors. From the papers of Lieutenant von S. , Berlin 1937
- Amba, the Lord , Berlin 1939
- Avant-garde , Berlin 1941
- The broad way , Stuttgart 1948
- Three strange days , Stuttgart 1948
- Demonstrated , Stuttgart 1955
- Night pages of love , Rüschlikon-Zurich [u. a.] 1960
- Murder in the Twilight , Stuttgart 1961
- Sexual cases , Köppern in Ts. 1961
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz von Schmidt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.buchfreund.de/de/d/p/94120521/ich-heisse-victor-mors-aus-den-papieren-des ; accessed on March 1, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Franz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |