Hasko (novel)

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Hasko book edition from 1939
Dutch edition Hasko, de watergeus , 3rd edition 1940

Hasko is the title of the most successful novel by the German writer , narrator , theater maker and reform pedagogue Martin Luserke . The novel was first published in German in 1935 and has also been published in Dutch and French.

It is about the Dutch freedom fighter Hasko, a Wassergeusen who was involved in a sea battle for the East Frisian city ​​of Emden and in a sea battle off the West Frisian island of Ameland during the Spanish-Dutch War (1568–1648) on the North Sea . At that time the reputation of the Wassergeusen changed from pirates to sovereign freedom fighters recognized by William I of Orange .

The book, which was mainly created on Luserke's ship Krake in Emden , contains, among other things, historical maps of the battle near Ameland and the sea battle off Emden, as well as drawings of the types of ships used by the Geusen at that time .

In 1935, Luserke's novel was awarded the 1st prize of the literary prize of the Reich capital Berlin . At the time, the book was published by both the Franz-Eher-Verlag in Munich and the Ludwig-Voggenreiter-Verlag in Potsdam .

During the Second World War , a partial edition of Voggenreiter was marked by Hasko with the comment “One-time special edition from the head office of the front bookstores Paris”. It was printed in the Imprimerie Chaim Paris. These book editions were intended for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht and were published in the small octave format suitable for field post . This ensured the publishers paper allotments and continued existence during the war.

Hasko was last reissued in 1989.

A literary forerunner of the novel was called Hasko wird Geusenkapitän and was published by Martin Luserke in 1925.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hasko: a Wassergeusen novel . In: Bavarian State Library. From: bsb-muenchen.de, accessed on May 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Martin Luserke: Hasko, de watergeus . Bosch & Keuning, Baarn 1940. From: dbnl.org, accessed July 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Martin Luserke: Hasko , roman, traduit de l'allemand par J. Gaudefroy Demombynes, Éditions Balzac, Paris, 1944
  4. ^ Walter Killy: Literature Lexicon. Vol. 7, Kräm - Marp. Verlag Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3110220490 , pp. 575-576.
  5. ^ Hans-Eugen Bühler / Edelgard Bühler: The front book trade 1939-1945. Organizations, competencies, publishers, books . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  6. ^ Ernst Fischer, Reinhard Wittmann: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 3: Third Reich, Part 1. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3110233513 . P. 372.
  7. ^ Historical commission of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. V. (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of the book industry , Vol. 58. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3110937763 , p. 73.
  8. ↑ Martin Luserke: Hasko . Edition Maritim, Hamburg 1989. ISBN 978-3-9221-1799-5 .
  9. ↑ Martin Luserke: Hasko becomes Geusenkapitän. Moritz Diesterweg publishing house , Frankfurt am Main 1925.