Friedrich Freksa

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Friedrich Freksa ; actually Kurt Franz Georg Friedrich-Freksa (born April 11, 1882 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin , † July 18, 1955 in Berlin) was a German author and editor .

Life

Freksa was born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as the child of the factory owner and businessman Georg Friedrich and his wife Klara, who later committed suicide. He wrote dramas , poetry , novels , detective novels , film scripts , radio plays and articles in magazines. The son of a wholesale merchant studied in Berlin, Paris and Munich . He traveled to numerous European countries, lived at times as a freelance writer in Munich and Tübingen , later again in Berlin, and was friends with Hanns Heinz Ewers . He had been married to the poet Margarete Beutler since 1907 , by whom he had a son born in 1906 ( Hans Florian , later director of the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen). The enormous fortune that he inherited after the death of his father in 1913, he brought through within a year through speculation and a lavish lifestyle. He was briefly involved in the First World War and separated from his wife in 1925 (but the marriage was not divorced until 1939). In 1924 he published a biography of Korvettenkapitän Hermann Ehrhardt , leader of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade , under the title Captain Ehrhardt. Adventures and destinies .

In 1907 Freksa had his first big stage success with the performance of the play Ninon de l'Enclos in the Residenz Theater in Munich. The pantomime Sumurun , premiered in 1909 under the direction of Max Reinhardt , was filmed in 1920 by Ernst Lubitsch . Freksa's first novel, Phosphorus (1911), satirically depicts how a philistine turns into a bon vivant (and back again) by falling on his head. In 1919/20 Freksa was co-editor of the satirical magazine Phosphor . His 1931 book Druso, or The Stolen Human World, in which the enslavement of humanity by insect-like aliens was described, was controversial . In 1934 Druso also appeared in the American magazine Wonder Stories .

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  • Ninon de l'Enclos. A game from the baroque era. Georg Müller, Munich 1907.
  • The Kingdom of Epirus. Comedy in five acts. Georg Müller, Munich 1908.
  • Epigrams of Clement Marot , ed. by Friedrich Freksa, translated by Margarete Beutler. Georg Müller, Munich, Munich 1908.
  • Josef Ruederer and the Cloud Cuckoo Land. A polemic. Georg Müller, Munich a. Leipzig 1908.
  • The torch of eros. A cycle of drama. Reiss, Berlin 1909.
  • Fat Caesar. A tragic comedy. Reiss, Berlin 1911.
  • The book of phosphorus . With panels by Emil Preetorius . Georg Müller, Munich 1911.
  • Phosphorus. Novel. With 25 drawings by Emil Preetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.
  • Historchen. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.
  • Erwin Bernstein's theatrical broadcast. A Berlin theater novel . In two volumes. Georg Müller, Munich, Leipzig 1913.
  • Behind the ramp. Theater glosses . Georg Müller, Munich 1913.
  • God's return. Novel . 1st part: fire. Fleischl, Berlin 1916.
  • The judgment of Seleucus. A fairy tale from the Greek era. Dramatic poem in 3 acts . Liecke, Munich 1917.
  • Freedom . Ullstein, Berlin 1919.
  • Necessary turn. Novellas . Georg Müller, Munich 1919.
  • Debauchery. The Histörchen second part . Binding drawing by Emil Praetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.
  • The land of normal people short story in: Library of the Munich Youth - Volume 3 "Fantastic stories". Munich 1919.
  • The wanderer into nowhere. Novel . Georg Müller, Munich, 1920. 365 pp.
  • Against the Kautsky Mache - Human Justification of Wilhelm II. According to his marginal notes in the files of the Foreign Office . Rösl, Munich 1920.
  • Tyll Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster . Re-edited and ed. by Friedrich Freksa. With 10 hand-colored pictures by Ludwig Bock. Rösl, Munich 1920.
  • Praschna's secret. Detective novel . Rösl, Munich 1920.
  • Caesar's hour. A worldly game . Georg Müller, Müller 1921.
  • Phosphorus. Novel . Thespis, Berlin 1921.
  • The secret of the Indian Praschna. Novel . Ernst Keil's successor (August Scherl), Leipzig 1923.
  • Li Tai Po. A poem . With ten etchings and eleven drawings by Richard von Below . Georg Müller, Munich 1923.
  • Captain Ehrhardt Adventures and Fates . Scherl, Berlin 1924.
  • The red hair dryer. Novel. Grethlein, Leipzig, Zurich 1925
  • Coup on Ithaca. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1926.
  • The defensive young lady . Small volume of stories with 12 stories, including the visit to Potsdam, the feast of Frau von Fleury, the prisoner of Pharmacusa, Hannibal's farewell to Italy, the bishop's house, Truelsen's Övelgönne, Frau Dorlebusch and others Georg Müller, Munich 1927.
  • A girl travels to happiness . Sieben-Rods-Verl., Berlin-Zehlendorf 1927.
  • Waste and Profits . Brunnen-Verl. Karl Winckler, Berlin 1928.
  • The hussar from the Rheinsberg . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld u. Leipzig 1930
  • Kaufmannskinder, novel from the turn of the Berlin bourgeoisie 1895–1925 . Sieben-Stäb-Verl., Berlin 1930.
  • The King's War Commissioner. Novel . Scherl, Berlin 1931.
  • Druso or: The stolen human world. Novel . Reckendorf, Berlin 1931.
  • Garibaldi, the sword of Italy . Kyffhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1940.
  • Ohm Kruger. His life - a fight against England . Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1941.
  • From yesterday until tomorrow . Werner, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1942.
  • Colonel Lumpus . Hesperus, Nuremberg 1944.
  • Berlin travel experience . 1919, in: Robert N. Bloch: Beyond the Dreams. Strange stories from the beginning of the century , Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1595) 1990, pp. 97-110.

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personal data
SURNAME Freksa, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich-Freksa, Kurt Franz Georg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1955
Place of death Berlin