Karl Tanera

Carl Tanera

Karl Tanera (born June 9, 1849 in Landshut , Lower Bavaria , † October 4, 1904 in Lindau ) was an officer in the Bavarian army and a well-known writer .

Life

Karl Tanera grew up in Regensburg and Speyer , where he also attended high school. In 1866 he joined the royal Bavarian army. He attended the war school in Munich and the war academy in Berlin and was later assigned to the war history department of the Great General Staff . Tanera took part in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 and was wounded as a lieutenant in Paris in 1870 .

In 1887 he published his first book "Ernste und cheery memories of an Ordonnanzoffiziers" (2 volumes), in which he described his own experiences from the campaign against France in 1870/71. Because of the fresh and lively narrative style, the work became so successful that Tanera ended his officer career with the rank of captain to devote himself only to writing.

He lived alternately in Tutzing and Berlin and made many trips to Europe, North Africa, India , Japan , China , America and the Orient .

Karl Tanera died on October 4, 1904 at the age of 55 in Lindau.

Friends and admirers erected a memorial to him in Bernried on Lake Starnberg in 1908.

Bernried Lindenallee1 Monument Tanera 001

He became generally known - apart from his memories of the war in 1870/71 - mainly through his popular and rather militaristic depictions of the German wars, which were written in the style of the time:

• The war of 1870/71 . (7 vols. Munich 1888-1891), to which he contributed the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th vols
• Germany's wars from Fehrbellin to Königgrätz . (9 vols. Munich 1891-1894)

Inspired by his many stays in distant countries, he also wrote travel books and military and historical stories for young people. He also published a number of novels , short stories , writings for young people, essays and sketches in addition to some military science writings .

Works

Front cover of War & Peace - Serious and cheerful , illustrated by Ernst Zimmer

• Serious and cheerful memories of an orderly officer (2 volumes), 1887
• The war of 1870/71 . (7 vols. Munich 1888-1891), to which he contributed the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th vols
• Germany's wars from Fehrbellin to Königgrätz . (9 vols. Munich 1891-1894)
• Through a century. Three novels of war history . 3 vols Rathenow 1892
• Serious and cheerful memories of an orderly officer . 1. u. 2nd row. Nordlingen 1887
• Officer's life in war and peace . Berlin 1889
• Hans von Dornen, the Crown Prince's cadet . Bielefeld 1891
• Germany's mistreatment by Louis XIV (1672–1714) . Munich 1891 ( online )
• The Kurt Röders Kismet . Stuttgart 1895
• Our Ben Abdallah, the Arab fritz . Munich 1895
• Cheerful and serious things from old Bavaria . Berlin 1895
• Heavy fighting . Novel. Hof 1897
• From three parts of the world. Travel sketches . 2nd edition, Berlin 1898
• Mansura . Novel. Jena 1899
• The Polecat's Volunteer . Leipzig 1900
• The Eurasian . Novel. Jena 1900
• War and peace. Serious and cheerful . Berlin 1900
• Indian trips or a dying father's assignment . Leipzig 1901
• Germany's fighting in East Asia . Munich 1901
• From the Prima to Tientsin . Leipzig 1901
• The Rauhreiter . Berlin 1902
• A trip around the world . 2nd edition Berlin 1902
• Heinz the Brazilian . Leipzig 1904
• Forward restlessly . Stuttgart u. a. 1904
• The legacy of the Abencerrags . Berlin 1904
• Trip around the earth . With P. Gisbert. Berlin 1904
• Franz Izuna . Novel. Berlin 1904
• During the war on the Siberian railroad and through Russia . Berlin 1905
• Caterpillar helmet and pimple hood . Leipzig 1905
• Wolf the Junker . Leipzig 1906
• Wolf the Dragoons of Prince Eugene . Leipzig 1907
• Wolf the hussar of old Fritz . Leipzig 1908
• From the North Cape to the Sahara . Leipzig, 1st edition (before 1900?)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Tanera in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Karl Tanera in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Karl Tanera in the Internet Archive
• Biography on abenteuerroman.info