Richard Blasius

Richard Blasius (born February 19, 1885 in Reichenau in Saxony , † June 26, 1968 in Dresden ) was a German writer.

Life

Blasius attended the teachers' seminar and first worked as a teacher in Kamenz and from 1908 in Rathmannsdorf . His first publications appeared in 1905. A serious war injury made it impossible for him to fully resume his teaching profession.

In the 1920s he turned entirely to writing. His debut was the crime novel Bob West's sample . Blasius became known through a series of exotic adventure novels that are heavily influenced by Karl May's oriental novels . From 1929 to 1939 thirteen episodes of the series Dolf Karsten's travel adventure were published , the hero Dolf Karsten of which clearly shows Kara Ben Nemsi's traits .

Under the pseudonym Karl Richard, he wrote adventure books as well as the novel booklet series Frank Faber's Adventure , from issue 53 as Fred Faber's Adventure . The hero Frank Faber, first American, then for political reasons German-American , traverses large parts of Asia, Africa and America accompanied by a helper.

In addition to adventure novels, Blasius also wrote plays, mostly taunts , cheerful novels and stories as well as radio plays . As an editor he dealt with works by Friedrich J. Pajeken and Franz Treller .

Works (selection)

• The secret of the Kâf. G. Weise, Stuttgart 1929.
• The prisoner of the Shilluk. G. Weise, Stuttgart 1929.
• Chase through Asia Minor (1930)
• Stambul in Flames (1930)
• The rider in the cauldron (1931)

literature

• Heinrich Pleticha, Siegfried Augustin: Lexicon of adventure and travel literature from Africa to Winnetou. Edition Erdmann in K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart, Vienna, Bern 1999, ISBN 3522600029

Left

• Writer on the radio