Karl Figdor

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Karl Figdor (also: Carl Figdor , pseudonyms : Alex Siegert , Percy Trunx ; born August 31, 1881 in Vienna , † June 21, 1957 in Zurich ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Karl Figdor came from the from the room Bratislava originating Jewish family Figdor . He went to Berlin before the First World War , where he worked as a journalist for the foreign policy section of the Vossische Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt . He was also an employee of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion . Figdor emigrated to Yugoslavia in 1935 ; In 1937 he settled in Switzerland . There he worked for the Basler Nationalzeitung , the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger and the Weltwoche .

In addition to his journalistic work, Figdor wrote a number of adventure novels , of which the volume Die Herrin der Welt alone achieved a circulation of over 100,000 copies; the work was 1919/20 u. a. Filmed as a monumental film in eight parts by the director Joe May . Figdor also wrote screenplays for German silent films of the 1920s.

In the novel "Die Herrin der Welt" the reviewer of the Vossische Zeitung saw the "archetype of the new German adventure novel", which in his opinion "must be careful" to reflect the "whole wealth of technical advances ... of our age ... in to put the service of the poetic imagination ". Figdor met the "need for topicality", in which "telegraphs and telephones are hardly considered to be of full value if they are still tied to wires". At the same time, the novel achieves "unprecedented dramatic heights" until the "dreadful fate" of the main character, the "noble Maud Gregaards", has been fulfilled.

Works

  • The sleeping light , Vienna 1906
  • The empire of tomorrow , Berlin [u. a.] 1916
  • The mistress of the world , Berlin 1919
  • Robbers, gods and Madame Adèle , Berlin 1927
  • The ride of the Sao Jeronymo , Dresden 1929
  • The fool of love , Berlin 1929
  • The treasure of Dschinghis Chan , Dresden 1929
  • Ships and people , Berlin [u. a.] 1929
  • The slave ship , Dresden 1929
  • The revenge of Maud Gregaards , Berlin 1930
  • The treasure of the Queen of Sheba , Berlin 1930
  • The man out of nowhere , Zurich 1945 (under the name Alex Siegert)
  • Experienced Asia , Zurich 1947
  • The change in attitudes about the position of the earth in space , Vienna 1948

Screenplays for feature films

  • 1919: The golden book
  • 1919: The Brothers of Saint Parasitus
  • 1919: The black Marion
  • 1919: The tarantula
  • 1919: The Squid Club
  • 1920: The Song of the Puszta
  • 1920: The lonely island
  • 1920: Fata Morgana
  • 1920: The Raft of the Dead
  • 1920: The head of Gonzales
  • 1920: ships and people
  • 1920: The dance into the abyss
  • 1920: The drums of Asia
  • 1922: Pilgrimage of love
  • 1924: Debit and credit

Translations

  • Ngaio Marsh : The Death Game . Bern 1948 (translated under the name Percy Trunx)

literature

  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HB: The new adventure novel - Karl Figdor: "Die Herrin der Welt" , Vossische Zeitung of June 6, 1920, 3rd supplement: literary review
personal data
SURNAME Figdor, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Figdor, Carl; Siegert, Alex (pseudonym); Trunx, Percy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1957
Place of death Zurich