Otto Eicke

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Eduard Max Otto Eicke (born April 7, 1889 in Plauen near Dresden , † December 25, 1945 in Bautzen ) was a German writer and publisher's editor .

Life

Eicke lived in Dresden , later in the Klotzsch villa district of Königswald .

Otto Eicke was an editor at the Münchmeyer-Verlag in Dresden and moved to the Karl-May-Verlag in Radebeul in 1918 , where he was involved in the editing of Karl May's collected works and contributed to the Karl May yearbooks. Eicke was a staunch National Socialist and his adaptations of May's texts are anti-Semitic and tendentious. After 1945, Eicke's revisions of the works were successively reworked by Karl May Verlag.

During the 1920s Otto Eicke wrote a large number of narrative works, especially crime and moral novels , which mostly appeared in booklet form . From 1920 to 1922 he also acted as the publisher of numerous deliveries of the Kolportage work The new Excentric Club about the adventurer Percy Stuart, published by Mignon Verlag in Dresden .

Works

  • The old song , Dresden 1920
  • Old debt , Dresden 1920
  • The heiress , Dresden 1920
  • The secret of the mill , Heidenau-Nord 1920
  • Hannele , Dresden 1920
  • Behind the Diamant-Boys , Dresden 1920
  • In the land of the Aztecs , Dresden 1920
  • Old King, the Trapper , Dresden 1920
  • The lost self , Dresden 1920
  • The colorful country , Dresden-A. 1921
  • Dark plans , Dresden 1921
  • Eberhard Krafft's youth , Dresden 1921
  • The Hermit of Santa Maria , Dresden 1921
  • The siblings , Dresden 1921
  • Homeless , Dresden 1921
  • The jewels of St. Hubertus , Dresden 1921
  • Count von Zehlen's million , Heidenau-Nord 1921
  • The murder in the Villa Irene , Dresden 1921
  • Just a cobweb thread , Dresden 1921
  • Salome , Dresden 1921
  • His masterpiece , Dresden 1921
  • Around a sheet of paper , Dresden 1921
  • The world of appearance , Dresden 1921
  • How he found her again , Dresden 1921
  • The flower cart , Dresden 1922
  • The Dancer's Secret , Dresden 1922
  • The big lot , Dresden 1922
  • Her mysterious death , Dresden 1922
  • Li-Tai-Tse , Dresden 1922
  • The tiger snake , Dresden 1922
  • Gangotri's goddess of death , Dresden 1922
  • The Tollenstein Ghost , Dresden 1923
  • Riddle of the Sphinx , Dresden 1923
  • To the fatherland, to the dear ...! , Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924
  • ... that you are a German! , Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924
  • The Ndjaro , Dresden 1924
  • What you inherited from your fathers ...! , Dresden-Niedersedlitz 1924
  • Fear the Dead , Berlin 1925
  • The break-in on Ulmenried , Heidenau in 1926
  • Countess Gisela , Heidenau 1926
  • Hathor, the love princess of the Pharaonic era , Heidenau 1926
  • Jacobe von Baden, the unhappy Duchess of Jülich , Heidenau 1926
  • The beautiful sinner , Heidenau 1926
  • Christine Wilhelmine von Graevenitz, the mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • Mrs. de Marbouty, the Page Balzacs , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • In serious suspicion , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • The man without a memory , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • Modern shrub thieves , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • The treasure digger , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • About a dancer , Heidenau near Dresden 1927
  • The prodigal son , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • A miracle , Heidenau b. Dresden 1927
  • The arsonist , Heidenau near Dresden 1928
  • Poison! , Heidenau b. Dresden 1929
  • The Hell Machine , Heidenau b. Dresden 1929
  • Master against master , Heidenau b. Dresden 1929
  • Espionage , Heidenau b. Dresden 1929
  • The miracle , Heidenau b. Dresden 1929
  • The jewels of the Maharajah , Heidenau near Dresden 1930
  • The boys of Zwillingsgasse , Berlin 1935
  • The daughter from Finkhof , Berlin 1935
  • How Heini found happiness , Berlin 1935
  • White roses , Berlin 1939

Editing

  • Karl May : Das Buschgespenst , Radebeul 1935 (published together with Euchar Albrecht Schmid )
  • Karl May: The Stranger from India , Radebeul 1939 (published together with Euchar Albrecht Schmid)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Plauen, No. 64/1889
  2. ↑ Death register StA Bautzen, No. 451/2006 (addendum)
  3. ↑ Jürgen Wehnert: [rez .:] Karl May Yearbook 1934. In: CMM News 161 (2009). P. 36: "a staunch Nazi"
  4. ↑ See e.g. B. Wolfgang Hermesmeier u. Stefan Schmatz. Development and expansion of the collected works , in: The cut diamond: The collected works of Karl May. - Ed. By Lothar u. Bernhard Schmid. - Bamberg: Karl-May-Verlag, 2003. p. 452.
personal data
SURNAME Eicke, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eicke, Eduard Max Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1945
Place of death Bautzen