Kurt Reis

Kurt Reis (pseudonyms: Conte Costello , Stephan Karolyi , Mario Markus , Axel von Orlowski , Kurt Ritter , born November 7, 1928 in Düsseldorf ) is a German writer .

Life

Kurt Reis received his doctorate in 1958 at the University of Cologne with a work about Gottfried Keller for Doctor of Philosophy . In the 1950s he worked as a journalist and wrote historical novels , books for young people , radio plays , short stories and detective novels ( Jerry Cotton ) under several pseudonyms ; later he also translated from English . From the late 1960s until his retirement he worked as a high school teacher for German and English at a technical high school in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Works

• Don Juan, the great adventurer , Berlin [u. a.] 1952
• Franz Liszt, Dreams of Love , Berlin [a. a.] 1952 (under the name Stephan Karolyi)
• The last tsarina , Berlin [u. a.] 1952 (under the name Axel von Orlowski)
• Maria Theresia , Berlin [a. a.] 1952
• Marie Antoinette , Berlin [a. a.] 1952
• Messalina , Berlin [a. a.] 1952 (under the name Conte Costello)
• Paganini and the women , Berlin [a. a.] 1952
• Christine of Sweden , Berlin [a. a.] 1953 (under the name Stephan Karolyi)
• Lola Montez and Ludwig von Bayern , Berlin [a. a.] 1954 (under the name Conte Costello)
• Caruso , Berlin [a. a.] 1955
• Madame Dubarry , Berlin [a. a.] 1955
• The Pompadour , Berlin [u. a.] 1955 (under the name Stephan Karolyi)
• Der Taucher von Jamaica , Düsseldorf 1956 (under the name Kurt Ritter)
• China's last empress , Berlin [a. a.] 1957 (under the name Axel von Orlowski)
• Der Freischütz , Rosenheim 1957 (under the name Mario Markus)
• The witch of Augsburg , Berlin [u. a.] 1957 (under the name Stephan Karolyi)
• With horse and canoe through Canada , Düsseldorf 1957 (under the name Kurt Ritter)
• Spuk in Grau , Colmar 1957 (under the name Kurt Ritter)
• What you want , Rosenheim 1957 (under the name Mario Markus)
• The dual order in Gottfried Keller's construction style , Cologne 1958

Translations

• Walter Clement Alvarez : Doctor with body and soul , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1964
• Tibor Mende : China , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1961
• George Pálóczi-Hórvath : Sex , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1968
• Shigeru Yoshida : Japan on the rise , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1963

literature

• Kürschner Lit. (1973)

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Reis in the catalog of the German National Library