Friedrich Soukup
Friedrich Ferdinand Soukup (* 1899 in Brno ; † 1948 or in the 1950s in the GDR) was a writer.
Life
He started out as a poet but then turned to prose . In 1923 the Graz theater premiered its Przybyszewski dramatization The Scream . In 1924 he won the Moravian Literature Prize. 1924-25 he tried to realize two magazine projects in Brno, including the illustrated review Elite (with the subtitle Society, Theater, Film, Fashion, Sport ), in which his novels were also printed. This should reflect the time, the city of Brno, the country and the world. Although it was written in German, it was also devoted to Czech culture.
In 1935 he appeared as a singer in Leipzig.
In 1937 he wrote under the pseudonym Marc Norfolk Demon Oel . On September 11, 1939, he changed his last name to Norfolk .
On May 12, 1943, he signed a preliminary contract with Nordland-Verlag to deal with the witch theme in the form of a novel.
Works
- Ecstasy of awakening: poems. 1923
- The dance of fools: short stories. Ahnert, 1923
- Cycle The Sonnets about Genia. 1924
- The world lie. Novel. 1924
- The suicides. novel
- The Sparrow. 1926-1929
- Demon oil. 1937
- The condotters. 1939
- Like the gods. 1940
- Zářící plamen. 1942
- Heart in the armor. 1942
- Cesare Borgia. 1942
- Landsknecht and general. 1943
- The revocation of Dietrich Flade . 1943
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Soukup in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ SCHACH magazine 1948 p.110/120, obituary with photo
- ↑ Eliška Konopásková: German and Czechs during the First Czechoslovak Republic in Brno. Diploma thesis, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno 2008 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Monika Gibas (Ed.): "Aryanization" in Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-142-2 , p. 135 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soukup, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soukup, Friedrich Ferdinand (full name); Norfolk, Friedrich Ferdinand (name from 1939); Norfolk, Marc (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |