Otfrid von Hanstein

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Wonder Stories Quarterly , 1930

Otfrid von Hanstein , also Otfried von Hanstein (born September 23, 1869 in Poppelsdorf ; † February 17, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German writer who used the pseudonyms Guenther von Hohenfels , R. Trebonius , Otfrid Zehlen , Otto Zehlen , O Zehlen and Otto Berndt used.

Life

Hanstein was the son of Helene, geb. Ehrenberg and the botany professor Johannes von Hanstein . Both his brother Adalbert von Hanstein and his nephew Wolfram von Hanstein were writers.

He spent his youth at Poppelsdorf Castle , where the official residence of his father was, who was the director of the botanical garden in Bonn . Hanstein attended high school in Göttingen . After leaving school, he began to work as a theater actor, his first engagement he had in 1889. He was co-founder and director of a theater school and worked as a director. He became theater director in Glatz, and from 1908 in Nuremberg. His first novel Theater-Prinzesschen (1906) dealt with the theater. On tours and privately, he traveled to France, Spain and numerous other countries, including the Balkans, the Orient, North and South America.

Hanstein wrote over two hundred novels , short stories and non-fiction books during his long writing career . Since he did not want to be compared with Karl May , whom he held in high esteem , he chose as locations as possible countries that May did not use.

It was not limited to a certain genre, so entertaining social and romance novels , detective novels , many adventure stories - often also intended for young people - or westerns and about 10 science fiction novels, some of which also appeared in the American pulp magazines " Wonder Stories " and " Wonder Stories Quarterly " were published in English translation.

Hanstein worked for renowned youth book publishers of the time, such as B. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft in Stuttgart or the Münchmeyer-Verlag , but also wrote for loan book and novel book publishers. Many of his works have also been published in preprints in newspapers or magazines. Hanstein was also a pioneer in the field of educational film .

The University of Coimbra appointed Hanstein an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in 1927 for his services to the spiritual connection between Portugal and Germany . In 1933 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Academia de Letras Bahia in Brazil as the first German.

After the end of the Second World War, various writings by Hanstein from the time of National Socialism in the Soviet occupation zone were placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

Since 1903 he was married to the writer Paula von Hanstein .

Works (selection)

Gravestone for Otfrid and Paula von Hanstein at the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf

Consistent travelogues in several volumes: In the realm of the golden dragon, In the land of the rising sun, Under the sun banner. begins during the Boxer Rebellion in China and ends around after the earthquake in San Francisco goes to South America

  • Theater princess. Stage mysteries and theatrical misery. A theatrical novel. Peters, Göttingen 1906, with an introduction by Kurt Büchler.
  • The Fires of Tenochtitlan, novel from days gone by , 1920
  • The emperor of the Sahara. Novel. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1922.
  • The blood-red stream. Novel from the time of a titan , 1924
  • The farm of the missing. Fantastic novel. HG Münchmeyer, Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924.
  • The Telefunken Devil. A radio novel. HG Münchmeyer, Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924.
  • The light in the east. The novel of opening up Siberia. HG Münchmeyer, Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924.
  • Raisuli. Sultan of the Mountains . Recorded by R. Forbes, translation and edited by Otfried von Hanstein. KF Koehler, Leipzig 1924
  • Rulawer, the dreamer. Novel from the first days of mankind. Grunow et al. Co., Leipzig 1924. (= People and Times Vol. 1)
  • Dick Roberts the Prospector , 1925, Comrade Library Volume 36
  • Electropolis. The city of technical wonders. A science fiction. Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1928.
  • Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile , 1927
  • The blond god. A novel from dead worlds. FW Grunow, Leipzig 1935.
  • Mond-Rak I. A trip into space. A science fiction. Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1929
  • Nova Terra , 1930
  • With camel and Nile barge from the Libyan desert to Sinai , 1930
  • From cabin boy to Lloyd captain , around 1930, 45 years from the life of a seaman, memories of the captain d. Lloyd-Dampfers "Stuttgart" Adolf Winter truthfully retold, print and copy. Verlag v. W. Köhler, Minden iW, 26 panel paintings a. 24 fig. In the text
  • How the glass blower boy got the brown shirt. A story from the Thuringian forest. Anton, Leipzig 1934.
  • From the Gran Chaco to the German labor camp. Paul Franke, Berlin 1934.
  • Heroic spirit. Lieutenant General Karl von Francois. Rebel for Honor and Germany , 1934
  • The Nandl from Schwangau. An adventure novel from the Allgäu. , 1937
  • The house on Brüderstraße. Historical novel , 1937
  • Farm in southwest. Colonial novel , 1938
  • The arsonist von Einbeck , Roman, 1941
  • The black student. Historical novel at the time of the peasant uprising in 1626 , 1941
  • The Omaruru messenger rider. Fate of German farmers during the Herero uprising in the southwest , 1941. Published in the series Kolonial-Bücherei , issue 19
  • The duel. A historical novel from Ulm , 1944
  • The arsonist von Einbeck , 1946
  • The Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind , 1946
  • Doomsday , 1946
  • Via Dolorosa , 1949
  • Donna Margerida , 1951
  • Lord Orsinnig , 1951
  • Anita Riddle , 1951
  • Veit Bauer "the hideous". Historical novel from the Upper Harz , 1944 - only published as a newspaper novel (1950)
  • Jörge the ordinary seaman, 1953
  • The heroic deed of Jutta von Stetten , supplement to the novel Die deutsche Woche - only published as a newspaper novel (between 1951 and 1962)
  • To forbidden Tibet. Adventure story , Hartleben Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1953; German book distribution and publishing company, Düsseldorf 1953, as O. Zehlen
  • The Pirate Island , as Rolf Trebonius, 1954

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weigand, p. 564
  2. ↑ Ilse Jahn:  Hanstein, Johannes Ludwig Emil Robert von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 640 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Weigand, p. 561f.
  4. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. First addendum based on January 1, 1947 (Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1947). .
  5. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946 (Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946). .
  6. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948). .
personal data
SURNAME Hanstein, Otfrid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES R. Trebonius (pseudonym); O. Zehlen (pseudonym); Guenther von Hohenfels (pseudonym); Hanstein, Otfried von (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1959
Place of death Berlin