Friedrich J. Pajeken

Friedrich J. Pajeken

Friedrich Joachim Pajeken (born March 5, 1855 in Bremen ; † November 8, 1920 ibid) was a German businessman and writer who wrote adventure novels for young people.

biography

Pajeken was the son of the captain and businessman Eduard Pajeken (1806–1874). At the commercial school he learned the trade of a businessman. In 1876 he was sent to Ciudad Bolívar on the Orinoco as a merchant , where he gained experience in overseas trade over the next three years. He used his stay there for numerous forays through the country. In addition, he dealt in detail with the Indians living in Bolivia . To get to know the North American Indians, he went to the “Hollers Ranch” on the Brod River in the Bighorn Mountains for two years and made good contacts with the Indians living there. Due to his slightly yellowish skin color and his achievements as a good hunter, he received the honorary name "Yellow Eagle" from them.

After returning to Bremen, he ran an agency and commission business from 1883 to 1889 and was a member of several associations. His talent for playing the violin earned him the position of conductor of the amateur orchestra there. In 1889 he settled in Hamburg and in the following year married the singer Agnes Winkelmann, who gave birth to two sons. His writing career also began in the Hanseatic city.

In 1897 he moved to Berlin and stayed until 1917. Then he returned to Hamburg again. He died in 1920 at the age of 65. After his death, his books were largely forgotten, so that today Pajeken is hardly known as a youth book author.

In his numerous books for young people he worked on his own adventurous experiences in America , with which he tried to revise the prevailing romantic ideas. In addition, he turned to other cultures. His books proved to be popular reading for young people and quickly made him popular, so that he kept adding new books in quick succession.

In addition to his own works, he also made arrangements for the youth of Gabriel Ferrys Waldläufer , Thomas Mayne Reid's scalp hunter , Campes Robinson Crusoe and other authors.

Works

Illustration for Bob the Trapper in a 1903 book edition.

Illustration to Andrew Brown the Red Spy in the first edition from 1894.

• Bob the trapper. Hirt, Leipzig 1890. ( Google digitized version )
• From the west of North America. ' Experiences and sketches. 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1890.
• In the wild west of North America. 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1891.
• The secret of the Karaib. A tale from the tropics of South America for the more mature youth. Flemming, Glogau 1891.
• Bob the city founder. A story from the west of North America for the more mature youth. Shepherd, Leipzig 1892.
• Jim the trapper. A story from the wild west of North America for the youth. Effenberger, Stuttgart 1895.
• A hero of the border. A story from the west of North America. Freely edited according to historical principles for the more mature youth. Shepherd, Leipzig 1893.
• The legacy of the invalids. A story from the North American states for the more mature youth. Effenberger, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1893.
• Bob the millionaire. A story from the west of North America. Shepherd, Leipzig 1894
• Andrew Brown, the red spy. A story from the wild west of North America. Effenberger, Stuttgart 1894. ( Google digitized version )
• Mitaha-sa, the powder face. A story from the west of North America. Effenberger, Stuttgart 1895.
• The Mestizo and three other stories from North and South America. Effenberger, Stuttgart 1896.
• On the Orinoco. Eckstein, Berlin 1896. 1896  - Internet Archive ( Table of Contents )
• Martin Forster. Experiences of a boy in the wild west. Effenberger, Stuttgart 1898.
• Bill the iron head. A story from western North America for the more mature youth. Loewe, Stuttgart 1899. 1899  - Internet Archive (Illustrator: Johannes Gehrts )
• Wonderful ways. West American Stories for the Young. Loewe, Stuttgart 1901
• The Orinoco Treasure , 1902
• A hero against his will. A story from western North America for the more mature youth. Meidinger's Jugendschriften-Verlag, Berlin 1904.
• The ghostly rider and other adventures from the wild west. Enßlin and Laiblin, Reutlingen 1920.
• Lost and saved. A tale from the wild west of North America for the more mature youth. Teutonia-Verlag, Leipzig 1908.
• The secret of the old house. A story from the tropics of South America. Herlet, Berlin 1909.
• In mummy town. Narrative. Adler Library, Berlin-Tempelhof 1909 ( digital copy from DNB )
• In storm and need. A story. Hertlet, Berlin 1910. New edition, Edition Dornbrunnen, Berlin 2017 ISBN 3-943275-28-0
• Hunting adventure in the tropics. Reclam, Leipzig 1911. ( digitized version of the DNB )
• The rule of fate. Three stories from country life. Volks- und Jugendschriftsn-Verlag, Leipzig 1912.
• The devil from Lake Minnetonka. A story from western North America for the more mature youth. Gehlen, Leipzig 1914.
• On your own. A story from the wild west of North America for the mature youth. Costenoble, Jena 1915.
• The Revenge of Emmaranus , 1918
• In the jungle and other stories. Koehler, Minden 1920.

literature

• Klaus Doderer (Ed.): Lexicon of Children's and Youth Literature , Weinheim / Basel, 1977.
• Friedrich Schegk / Heinrich Wimmer (eds.): Lexicon of travel and adventure literature , Meitingen, 1988 ff, ISBN 3-89048-700-9 .
• Short autobiography in: Fritz Abshoff: Bildende Geister. Oestergaard, Berlin 1905, p. 85.

Web links

• Works by Friedrich J. Pajeken in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Friedrich J. Pajeken with bibliography and illustrations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corpse books of the city of Bremen ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at die-maus-bremen.de (DIE MAUS Gesellschaft für Familienforschung eV, Bremen)