Karl Strecker (writer)

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Karl Strecker

Karl Strecker (born April 8, 1862 in Dummadel , Greifenberg district , † February 19, 1933 in Garmisch ) was a German writer and theater critic .

Life

Strecker was born as the son of a manorial estate owner in Dummadel in the Greifenberg district in Pomerania . He attended high school in Belgard and then studied in Berlin. He became an officer , then a journalist , and from 1894 an editor at the Volksrundschau . From 1901 he was a theater advisor for the Tälichen Rundschau in Berlin and wrote theater reviews .

Strecker was also active as a writer and dramaturge .

Works (selection)

  • Knippe family . Leipzig 1891.
  • The song of Mönchgut. Epic poetry in 10 songs . Bremer, Stralsund 1892.
  • Dance of death . Harms, Hamburg 1902.
  • The Abbess Jouarre . Drama in 3 acts, based on Ernest Renan. Berlin 1903.
  • Of the?? Berlin's decline as a theater city , Schwetchke, Berlin 1911.
  • Heinrich von Kleist . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1912.
  • Life students . Novel. Hinstorff, Wismar 1913.
  • England in the mirror of human culture . A book of time. CH Beck, Munich 1915.
  • On the trail of the Hindenburg administration . Schwetschke, Berlin 1917. *
  • The pipe king . A novel from the present. CH Beck, Munich 1918.
  • Our empress. Life picture of a German woman . Neudeutsche Verlags- und Treuhandgesellschaft, Berlin 1921.
  • Henrik Ibsen and his best stage works . An introduction. Schneider, Berlin 1921.
  • Nietzsche and Strindberg . With their correspondence. Müller, Munich 1921.
  • A humorous dinner hour . Forays through the funny world poetry. Dürr & Weber, Leipzig 1921.
  • Wreaths . 2 novellas. Reclam, Leipzig 1921.
  • Friedrich Hebbel and his best stage works . An introduction. Schneider, Berlin 1922.
  • Strindberg's childhood . Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1922.
  • Goethe's Faust . A book of introduction and empathy. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1923.
  • Friedrich Hebbel. His will, way and work . Alster-Verlag, Hamburg 1925.
  • The way through the Addermoor . Novel. Keil, Berlin 1927.
  • Shouts from the dark . Novel. Cotta, Stuttgart 1929.
  • His star in the storm . A Nettelbeck novel. German Book Community, Berlin 1929.
  • An arson. Reissner, Dresden 1932.

literature

  • Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 358.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ No copy can be found in German libraries, one copy in the Swiss National Library in Bern.

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personal data
SURNAME Strecker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and theater critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dummadel , Greifenberg district
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1933
Place of death Garmisch