Jesco von Puttkamer (writer)

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Jesco von Puttkamer (also: Ernst von Bernouilly , Johannes von Parten , Jesco Leo Constantin von Puttkammer , Jesko Leo Konstantin von Puttkammer , Jesko von Puttkammer ) (born March 12, 1858 in Charlottenburg , † January 23, 1916 in Dresden ) was a military man , Publicist , writer and publisher .

Life

Puttkamer was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant and took his leave in 1878. He worked as a publicist, writer and publisher and was the founder of the magazine Universum . He made trips to Italy, France and Switzerland. In 1880 he became a publisher in Dresden.

Puttkamer is one of the representatives of colonial literature with the novel Das Duallamädchen , which concerns the situation in the German colony of Cameroon .

Works

  • Jesco von Puttkamer: The dualla girl . Novel. Müller-Mann'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1908. This novel is one of three on the basis of which Gouaffo analyzes the narrative means with which colonial authors try to bring the colonies, in this case Cameroon, closer to the German reading public.

literature

  • Albert Gouaffo: Knowledge and Culture Transfer in a Colonial Context. The example of Cameroon - Germany (1884-1919). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3754-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marbach literature archive
  2. ↑ Jesco von Puttkamer in the German biography
  3. ↑ Gouaffo 2007, page 90, footnote 120.
  4. ↑ Gouaffo 2007, page 88ff.
personal data
SURNAME Puttkamer, Jesco from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1916
Place of death Dresden