Fritz Brustat-Naval

Fritz Brustat-Naval (born November 25, 1907 in Eydtkuhnen , East Prussia as Friedrich Brustat, † June 13, 1989 in Kiel ) was a German captain , journalist , filmmaker and author . He also wrote under the pseudonyms Frederik Naval and Jack Tar .

Life

Fritz Brustat-Naval wrote books on contemporary history, travel and shipping, as well as numerous scripts for maritime documentaries and radio plays . He was still a sailor on square sailors “in front of the mast ” around Cape Horn and as a captain got to know all the oceans on a long voyage .

During the Second World War he was a captain on supply ships and a teacher at the navigation school in Gotenhafen . In the German Navy he was a lieutenant captain in the reserve.

He studied political science at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , traveled to Mao Tse-tung's China and was a commentator for Federal President Gustav Heinemann at the windjammer parade for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel .

Fritz Brustat-Naval belonged to the friendship association of the last Cape Horn drivers, the Association Amicale Internationale des Capitaines au Long-Cours Cap Horniers and lived in Kiel.

Awards

• Medal Hommage des Capitaines Cap Hornier St. Malo for the literary work

Works

• 1950: Lights over the sea - lightships, lighthouses and their men
• 1953: fishermen off Iceland. Tough men in the North Atlantic
• 1953: Man and the sea - 25 years harbor concert with Kurt Esmarch
• 1963: Otje and the beautiful Magelone
• 1964: "Greif" - story of a circumnavigation
• 1966: Between mast and railing. A nautical sketchbook
• 1967: Goodbye, Vineta. Novel of a seafaring youth
• 1970: Jonny Brooks under false flag
• 1971: Jonny Brooks on a dangerous course
• 1971: Jonny Brooks and the missing millions
• 1973: Five times 100,000 tons
• 1973: Windjammer on a long journey
• 1973: Between the Baltic Sea and East Asia
• 1975: The Cape Horn Saga
• 1976: China - On the move in the Middle Kingdom
• 1976: The Big Book of Windjammers (co-author)
• 1978: The Anson story
• 1980: In the wind of the oceans. Report.
• 1980: Flight and expulsion (co-author)
• 1982: Ali Cremer : U 333. Report.
• 1982: around the head and neck. Report.
• 1983: Wet oak leaves with Teddy Suhren

literature

• 1968 German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , De Gruyter Verlag
• 1980 Writer in Schleswig-Holstein, today (Ed. CD Hahn; C. Jensen)