Axel Frelau

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Axel Frelau (actually Maxim Laufer ; born November 13, 1909 in Dědice / Moravia , Austria-Hungary ; † April 23, 1987 in Prague ) was a German-speaking Czechoslovakian writer and doctor.

Life

Axel Frelau and Maxim Laufer had a doctorate in medicine (1936 in Brno ). He took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side ; later he worked temporarily as a doctor in the Congo .

Under the pseudonym Axel Frelau - an anagram of his surname - Laufer wrote novels and stories with a socialist tendency , most of which take place in Spain or Africa and were mainly published by the GDR military publishing house .

His son is the singer Josef Laufer .

Works

  • Guerrillas in the mountains of Aragon , Berlin 1958
  • Eat, bird, or die , Berlin 1961
  • The black drum , Berlin 1967
  • Congo felt the pulse , Halle (Saale) 1968
  • Shots in Spielberg , Halle (S.) 1971
  • Meeting at Schott , Berlin 1974
  • Zorro returns home , Berlin 1976
  • The thundering smoke , Berlin 1977
  • Sergeant Barker, get out! , Berlin 1978
  • Unknown perpetrator , Berlin 1980
  • A Spanish summer , Berlin 1981
  • Doctor Cortez in distress , Berlin 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonín Kostlán, Alice Velkova (ed.): Science in exile: Czechoslovakia as a Way of the Cross from 1918 to 1989: Collection of a conference (Prague, 11 to 12 November of 2003.) Volume 17 of Práce z dějin vedy. Výzkumné Centrum pro Dějiny Vědy, 2004, ISBN 9788086103815 , p. 77. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  2. ↑ Matilde Eiroa, Manuel Requena, Ángeles Egido, Francisco Javier López, Iván Harsányi, Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski, Vladimir Nalevka, Jaroslav Boucek, Dragomir Draganov, CEDOBI: Al lado del gobierno republicano: Los brigadistas de la Europa del Este en la guerra . Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 2009, ISBN 9788484278917 , p. 156. Restricted preview in Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Frelau, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laufer, Maxim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dědice
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1987
Place of death Prague