Julius Friedrich Willy Frerk

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Julius Friedrich Willy Frerk jun. (* December 18, 1886 in Hanover ; † January 29, 1960 in London ) was a German-British publicist and writer .

Life

Frerk, son of Willy Frerk, editor of the Hannoversche Anzeiger , studied from 1907 to 1910 at the Universities of Göttingen , Munich , Kiel , Freiburg and Greifswald . He made numerous long trips in Europe, North Africa and Turkey and supplied foreign magazines with articles. Frerk translated from several European languages ​​and wrote novels and short stories himself.

He worked as editor- in- chief in Greifswald , Dortmund and Hanover and finally took over the management of the popular magazines Photofreund and Photowoche in Berlin . With his numerous books, Frerk played an important role in opening up technical media to amateurs, especially photography , film , radio and records .

He was married first to Kate Stern, then to Lisa Podszus, and had two daughters. In 1937 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and in 1939 to Great Britain.

Works (selection)

  • The sports photography. Leipzig 1909
  • The summer battle. War chatter. Victories 1916
  • The triumphant advance through Romania. Siegen, Leipzig 1917
  • Blood revenge. Berlin, Leipzig 1918
  • Uwe Jörgensen's children. Original novel. Berlin undated (1921)
  • The cinema amateur. A textbook and reference book. Berlin undated (1926)
  • Photography. 2 volumes. Berlin 1927, 1931
  • Spring ride. Criss-cross through the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Berlin 1928
  • Long-distance reception. The modern ideal radio system. 5th edition Berlin 1930
  • The narrow-film maker. 2nd edition Berlin 1931
  • Self-recording from vinyl records. Berlin 1932
  • Walk - see - turn. The cine film manual for friends of the 'Siemens cinema camera'. Berlin 1935
  • Cruising with a camera. Phototips for sea and shore. London 1939 (with O. Blakeston)
  • All about focusing and your camera. Numerous issues from 1940
  • All about Flash Photography and your Camera. Numerous issues from 1952

as editor:

  • Photo friend yearbook
  • Photo friend library
  • Yearbook of the cinema amateur

Translations:

  • o. vf .: The Rollei Book. 6th edition, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1954
  • Otto R. Croy: Films and Filters. Vaduz 1956
  • Hans Windisch: The Manual of Modern Photography. Vaduz 1956

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition 1935, p. 345
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. 1973, p. 496
  • Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 2, 1983, p. 565
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld, Eva Tiedemann: German exile literature 1933–1945. 2nd edition, Heidelberg 1970, quoted from Deutsches Biographisches Archiv III, Fiche 259, p. 394 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. 1973, p. 496
  2. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition 1935, p. 345
personal data
SURNAME Frerk, Julius Friedrich Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frerk, Fred Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1960
Place of death London