Friedrich Jaksch

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Friedrich Jaksch ( pseudonym : Friedrich Bodenreuth , born April 4, 1894 in Budweis , Bohemia ; † February 18, 1946 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a Sudeten German writer .

Life

Friedrich Jaksch was the son of a lawyer . After attending high school , he studied law and philosophy at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague for a few semesters . Jaksch took part in the First World War as a soldier on the Austro-Hungarian side . He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Komarów at the end of August 1914 and retired from military service. From 1919 to 1920 he worked as a dramaturge at the theater in Außenig . From 1920 he was director of the Sudeten German publishing house in Reichenberg and the open-air festival there. In 1923 Jaksch was one of the founders of the " Library of the Germans in Czechoslovakia ", which collected the Sudeten German literature of the Czechoslovak Republic . He later lived in Thuringia and died in 1946 as an inmate of the Soviet special camp in Buchenwald .

Friedrich Jaksch was the author of novels , stories , poems and plays . His novel "All waters of Bohemia flow to Germany", published in 1937, was particularly successful. It depicts the conflicts between the Czechs and the German minority in Bohemia up to 1919 from a German-national perspective; by 1943 the book had a total print run of over 260,000 copies. In the Soviet occupation zone , three of Jaksch's works that had appeared under the pseudonym "Friedrich Bodenreuth" were on the " List of literature to be sorted out ".

Works

  • Waves and waves , Prague 1918
  • Hartherz, the dwarf , Leipzig 1919
  • Fairy tale of love , Prague 1919
  • Mothers! , Reichenberg 1920
  • Slave girl , Reichenberg 1920
  • Eros-Licht , Reichenberg in Bohemia 1922
  • The beheaded Savior , Reichenberg 1924
  • The house with the stone figures , Schweidnitz 1926
  • The Bohemian Forest Christmas Game , Berlin 1929
  • Lexicon of Sudeten German writers and their works for the years 1900–1929 , Reichenberg 1929
  • Nurse Ise , Reichenberg 1930
  • How Hans and Grete visited Santa Claus , Reichenberg 1930 (together with Tina Pezellen)
  • Sun over Bohemia , Breslau 1934
  • God sets the pointer , Breslau 1935
  • All the waters of Bohemia flow to Germany , Berlin 1937 (under the name Friedrich Bodenreuth)
  • Kathrein , Berlin 1939 (under the name Friedrich Bodenreuth)
  • The end of the iron crowd , Leipzig 1940 (under the name Friedrich Bodenreuth)
  • Sons on the other bank , Berlin 1940 (under the name Friedrich Bodenreuth)
  • Krispinus , Rudolstadt / Thür. 1944 (under the name Friedrich Bodenreuth)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Friedrich Jaksch . In: Moravia - database of German-Moravian authors , Katedra Germanistiky, Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc . Retrieved January 10, 2016.