Max Krell (Author)

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Max Krell , pseudonym: Georg Even (born September 24, 1887 in Hubertusburg in Wermsdorf ; † June 11, 1962 in Florence ) was a German author and editor .

Life

Krell studied German and philosophy in Leipzig , Munich and Berlin . He worked for a year as a dramaturge at the court theater in Weimar and undertook extensive trips that took him to North Africa . After the First World War he worked as an editor, theater critic and writer in Munich and Berlin, and in the 1920s he became a lecturer at Ullstein Verlag . As editor of the novel department, Krell looked after authors such as Bertolt Brecht , Ernst Toller and Lion Feuchtwanger . He achieved his greatest success in 1929 with the publication of Erich Maria Remarque's novel In the West Nothing New .

In 1931 he married the 18-year-old writer Johanna Sibelius (actually: Sibylle Freybe), but divorced a little later. In 1936 he emigrated to Italy via Switzerland and lived as a freelance writer and translator in Florence. His memoirs appeared in 1961 under the title Everything existed once .

Works

  • The Rainbow. Keppler, 1949.
  • The dance marie. Kleber, 1949.
  • Actor of the dear God. Schleber, 1950.
  • The lady in the straw hat. Keppler, 1952.
  • Oranges in Ronco. Rowohlt, Berlin, 1930
  • The House of the Red Crabs - A family in Tuscany. Scheffler, 1962
  • All of this existed once. German Book Association, 1963
  • The Maringotte a story, Rowohlt, Berlin, 1919

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died: Max Krell. Spiegel Online, 25/1962. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Krell, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Even, Georg (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wermsdorf , Northern Saxony district
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1962
Place of death Florence