Otto Kiesel

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Otto Erich Kiesel (born November 7, 1880 in Hamburg ; † August 21, 1956 there ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Cushion stone Otto Erich Kiesel , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Otto Kiesel was the son of a tailor and learned this craft from his father. At the same time, he tried to further educate himself self-taught . In 1903 he was employed by the Hamburger Nachrichten as a freelancer on a tip from Gustav Falke .

He later spent several semesters at the Universities of Kiel and Lausanne . Then Kiesel returned to the Hamburger Nachrichten as a permanent member of the editorial team.

In 1910, the publisher Albert Broschek brought him to the editorial office of his newspaper Hamburger Fremdblatt . There Kiesel was soon entrusted with the management of the local area . From 1930 he worked as editor-in-chief of Hamburger Illustrierte .

After the Second World War , Kiesel devoted himself to his own literary work. He mostly published his works under the pseudonym "Ulrich Pfingst".

Otto Erich Kiesel was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AD 22 (southeast of Chapel 7).

reception

With his trilogy “The Undaunted City” (Paranoia - The Seventh Shell - The Nissen Hut), Kiesel tried to deal with the war years from 1939 to 1945 in his hometown Hamburg. The extent to which he succeeded in this was already controversial when it was published in 1950.

Works (selection)

  • Eight days at Hansberg. Novel . Broschek, Hamburg 1937.
  • ... to the third link. Novel . Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1949.
  • Ebb and flow. Hamburg stories . Rothbarth, Leipzig 1904.
  • The eternal gate. A Eulenspiegel novel . Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1947.
  • Gisela at the roulette. Game instruction for a friend . Volksbücherei-Verlag, Giessen 1950.
  • The Gulf Stream. Novel . Westermann, Braunschweig 1923.
  • The Michel witnessed. People and destinies; Novel . Brosachek, Hamburg 1952.
  • The unwanted. Novel . Laatzen, Hamburg 1949.
  • The undaunted city . Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-921909-84-8 (reprint of the Hamburg 1950 edition).
  • How beautiful was our world. Novel . Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Kiesel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiesel, Otto Erich; Pfungst, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1956
Place of death Hamburg