Friedrich Thieme

Friedrich Thieme (born November 23, 1862 in Burgstädt , † 1945 in Jena ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Thieme was a son of the master weaver Fritz Thieme and his wife Ida Diesel. He graduated from the community school in his hometown and later moved to a school in Borna near Leipzig . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and also worked in this industry for some time. Around 1883 he began to work as a freelancer in several regional newspapers.

In the spring of 1891 he settled as a freelance writer in Jena and married Hedwig Römer there on October 10, 1891. He had three children with her: Klara (* 1892), Hedwig (* 1895) and Johann Gottfried (* 1898), who also became a writer.

In addition to his journalistic work, Thieme also created a considerable literary oeuvre over time; mostly short stories and detective novels . Thieme published many of his works under the pseudonyms “F. Clemens "and" H. Romans ". He was chairman of the "Society for Free Ethical Culture" Jena.

He is buried in the north cemetery in Jena.

Memberships

• Anti-Duel League
• Jena ethical society

Works (selection)

stories

• Student Father's Adventure. Funny stories from student life in Jena . Verlag Maeder, Leipzig 1897, reprinted by Edition Jera, Hilden 2011.
• The official defender. Two crime novels . Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1903 (content: The official defender and the flight into the mountains ).
• Mysterious stories. Criminal and other things . Verlag der Körnerschen Buchhandlung, Erfurt 1898.
• Criminal humor . Habbel Verlag, Regensburg o. J. (Funny books; 5).
• The magic telescope and other war humor . Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1917 (Funny books; 26).

Novels

• A past . Publishing house O. Janke, Berlin 1901.
• The Gembalsky case . 1901.
• The only witness . 1905.
• Dr. Ohloff's secret . 1906.
• By whose hand? Detective novel . 2nd edition. Kösel & Pustet, Regensburg 1922.
• A millionaire theft of the twentieth century. Detective novel . Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1900 (Welcome books; 17).
• Two war weddings. Story from Jena and Weimar from 1806 , Vopelius , Jena 1936.
• The abandoned village (= Kunitz (Jena) ). A life, suffering and love story from Germany's saddest time , 2 new editions by Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 1992 and 2001.
• In the sea of ​​ichthyosaurs. Fantastic journey by Professor Petrenz from Jena in 1922 from Inselsberg in the footsteps of Friedrich Wilhelm Mader . Continuation of the youth magazine Der Gute Kamerad , Stuttgart 1922, published as a book. and come by Detlef Münch, Synergen-Verlag, Dortmund 2017.

Home history

• Jenas memorial plaques (= old and new from home. Supplement to the Jenaer Volksblatt 1931–1933, volume 5), Vopelius, Jena 1934.
• Memorial sites around Jena. A guide through the memorials and memorials of the battlefield and the area around Jena; with views from old Jena , Jena: Vopelius 1936.

Others

• The Capuchin Sermon against the Monists. A funny comedy with a serious outcome in several development phases (presented on February 15, 1908 on the occasion of the celebration of Ernst Haeckel's 74th birthday in the Jena branch of the German Monist Association ), Gesellschaft Neue Weltanschauung, Stuttgart 1908.

Film adaptations

• F. Dolgopolsky (director): The Gembalsky case . 1922 (based on the novel of the same name).

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , pp. 329-330.
• Max Geissler: Guide through the German literature of the twentieth century . Duncker, Weimar 1913.
• Heinz Voss u. a .: Literary silhouettes. The poets and thinkers and their works . Dressler Verlag, Leipzig 1907/1910 (4 volumes).

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Thieme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Thieme in the Internet Movie Database (English)