Reinhard Koester

Reinhard Koester ( pseudonyms : Karl Kinndt , Benedikt , Kaki ; born May 6, 1885 in Hagen / Westphalia , † June 6, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Reinhard Koester was the son of a district judge . After attending a grammar school in Bonn , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1903 , Reinhard Koester studied law at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . He was then a trainee lawyer for a short time . From 1909 he lived as a freelance writer in Bernried am Starnberger See and contributed to magazines such as Jugend and Pan . Koester made numerous trips to France , Italy , Greece and Turkey . His contacts with artists from the Munich Secession and the Schwabing Bohème prompted him to found an art publisher in 1911 in which he published bibliophile editions of works by the artists of the Secession.

In 1916 Koester was drafted into the army; he performed his military service mainly in Cologne , where he married his first wife in 1917. The couple lived in the Upper Bavarian town of Mürnsee from 1920 ; The divorce took place in 1924 . Koester's second marriage that same year was divorced in 1925 . From 1924 Koester was a permanent employee of the Simplicissimus , for which he continued to work after moving to Berlin in 1926. At the end of the 1920s, under the pseudonym Karl Kinndt, he and the draftsman Karl Arnold created humorous texts for the Münchner Illustrierte Presse that entered into a completely new symbiosis with Arnold's pictures. Since the early 1930s Koester, alias Karl Kinndt, published successful entertainment novels; and he also wrote screenplays for feature films of Ufa . After the Second World War , Koester, who was now third married, was editor-in-chief of the Berlin-based magazine Puck , a satirical weekly supplement to the Telegraf newspaper , from 1946 to 1948 .

Reinhard Koester's literary work consists of novels , short stories , poems and plays , and he also translated a number of Molière's comedies into German .

Works

• The songs of the lonely . Munich 1910
• The walk of the wicked . Munich 1919
• Comedy of lies . Leipzig 1919
• Peregrinus . Munich 1919
• Benedict no longer participates . Berlin 1930 (under the name Karl Kinndt)
• Something is wrong ... Berlin 1931 (under the name Karl Kinndt)
• Law of chance . People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin 1933 (under the name Karl Kinndt)
• Lights on - lights off! . Berlin 1935
• And everything about a dog -! . Berlin 1935
• Everyone goes their own way . Berlin 1937
• The wine primer . Berlin 1938
• Anti-melancholine . Berlin 1948 (under the name Karl Kinndt)
• Reinhard Koester reading book . Cologne 2004

Translations

• Molière : Comedies , Vienna 1947

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Koester in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhard Koester in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Reinhard Koester reading book . (PDF; 1.7 MB) Cologne 2004