Karl Friedrich Nowak

Karl Friedrich Nowak (born January 1, 1882 in Vienna , † December 17, 1932 in Berlin ) was an Austrian journalist , author and publisher.

Live and act

Nowak studied law in Vienna between 1900 and 1903 . However, he soon became a journalist. He reported on art and culture for various newspapers, first in Vienna, then in Cologne ( Kölnische Zeitung ) and Berlin. During the First World War he was a war correspondent in the Austro-Hungarian war press office . In 1916 he was admitted to Field Marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf .

On July 5, 1917, Nowak was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with war decorations in recognition of his services as a war correspondent .

After the war he published several books on the warfare of the Central Powers. In it he emphasized Conrad's foresight, which led to journalistic disputes.

Nowak founded the Verlag für Kulturpolitik in Berlin , in which he published memoirs by the military, diplomats and politicians in Germany and Austria. The former German Emperor Wilhelm II gave him insight into archive material. He was unable to complete larger works such as a book about the German Empire after 1870 and the correspondence of Field Marshal Conrad.

The Austrian Biographical Lexicon judges that Nowak's works have "source value to this day" and occupy a "place in the history of journalism".

Monographs (selection)

• Alexander Girardi. His life and work , Berlin 1908
• Sans-souci . Places of Culture , Volume 15. Leipzig 1908, ZDB -ID 520176-7
• Romantic journey (poems), Berlin 1908
• Hötzendorf's camp , Berlin 1916 - text online
• Over the Lowtschen , Berlin 1917
• The road to catastrophe , Berlin 1919 - text online
  • Germany's road to ruin. The middle years of the reign of the emperor William II . (English). New York (NY) 1932
• The fall of the Central Powers , Munich 1921 - archive.org
• Chaos , Munich 1923
• The road to disaster. With letters, conversations, documents and cards . (Source documented edition). Berlin 1926 - archive.org
• Versailles , Berlin 1927 - text online
  • -, Norman Thomas (transl.), E (rnest) W (alter) Dickes (transl.): Versailles . (English). London 1928
  • Versailles . (English). New York (NY) 1929 - archive.org
• The third German empire . (Two volumes).
  • The generation skipped , Berlin 1929
  • Germany's way into the encirclement , Berlin 1931
• Max Hoffmann , - (Ed.): The records of Major General Max Hoffmann . (Two volumes). Berlin 1929
  • Volume 1 - text online
• Kaiser and chancellor. The opening years of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II . (English). New York (NY) 1930
• Anton von Monts , - (Ed.): Memories and thoughts of the Ambassador Anton Graf Monts , Berlin 1932

Articles, reports (selection)

• Old Gozzi. On the hundredth anniversary of death . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . Volume II, Volume I. Oesterheld, Berlin 1906, ZDB -ID 2424191-X , pp. 436-439.
• Dingelstedt. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of death . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . Volume II, Volume I. Oesterheld, Berlin 1906, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, pp. 613-617.
• Tintoretto as a dramatic hero . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . Volume II, Volume II. Oesterheld, Berlin 1906, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, p. 164 ff.
• Adolf Donath . In: The Blue Book. Issue No. 9 (Volume II), Berlin 1907, ZDB -ID 531166-4 .
• Rain , Mozart performance . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . Volume IV, Volume I. Oesterheld, Berlin 1908, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, p. 206.
• (From: Romantische Fahrt. Berlin 1908 :) Funeral. In:  Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung , literary-belletristic supplement to the "Czernowitzer Allgemeine ( sic ) Zeitung" , No. 1284/1908, April 19, 1908, p. 17 (unpaginated), top center. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Theater in the foreign city . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . VII year, volume I. Reiss, Berlin 1911, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, pp. 269-272.
• One act . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . Volume VII, Volume II. Reiss, Berlin 1911, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, p. 472.
• The edited Lessing . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . IX. Volume II. Schaubühne, Charlottenburg 1913, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, pp. 972-976.
• New German theater. (...) Patriotic evening. First section: (...) Krasnik and Komarow (...) Presented by Otto Soltau. In:  Prager Tagblatt , morning edition, second edition, No. 264/1914 (XXXIXth year), September 25, 1914, p. 7, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Daily report. (...) The Styrian in Duklapass. In:  Grazer Tagblatt , evening edition, No. 58/1915 (XXV. Year), February 27, 1915, p. 10, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Daily news. Rest day in Trento. In:  Pester Lloyd , Morgenblatt, No. 184/1916 (LXIII. Year), July 4, 1916, p. 10, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
• The war year 1916. - According to information from a special source. In:  Pester Lloyd , Morgenblatt, No. 349/1916 (LXIII. Year), December 16, 1916, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• The monitor . In: Siegfried Jacobsohn (Ed.): The Schaubühne . XII. Volume I. Schaubühne, Charlottenburg 1916, ZDB-ID 2424191-X, p. 209 ff.

literature

• Eva Macho: Karl Friedrich Nowak (1882–1932). His work as a war correspondent. Author and publisher from a contemporary and today's perspective . ( European university publications , series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences , volume 1056, ZDB -ID 510545-6 ). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58168-1 .
• P (eter) Broucek :  Nowak, Karl Friedrich (1882-1932), journalist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 165 f. (Direct links on p. 165 , p. 166 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Nowak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Karl Friedrich Nowak in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 169/1917, July 26, 1917, p. 2, column 2 below. (Online at ANNO ). .