Richard Katz (writer)

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Richard Katz (born October 21, 1888 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died November 8, 1968 in Muralto , Ticino ) was a German-Brazilian journalist and travel writer of Bohemian origin.

Life

After graduating from high school , Katz studied law at the German University in Prague. He became a member of Saxonia Prague in the Burschenbunds-Convent . As a student he began to write for various newspapers and magazines. The Vossische Zeitung hired Katz for its office in Prague immediately after completing his studies . For this newspaper he also toured East Asia as a “traveling reporter” for well over a year. In 1902, Katz continued the collection of Architectural Character Pictures as editor .

After the First World War , Katz went to Leipzig in 1919 , where he was promoted to head of the Leipzig publishing house in 1924. He held this post for two years. From 1928 to 1930 he worked as an authorized signatory for Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . As such, Katz founded the weekly newspaper Die Grüne Post , which reached over a million circulation within a very short time. Thanks to this financial success, Katz was able to establish himself as an independent writer from 1930. In the interwar period , Katz was one of the most successful German-language travel writers alongside Colin Ross and AE Johann . He has traveled almost all over the world and is characterized by a unique, critically humorous style.

In 1933 Katz had to emigrate to Switzerland because he was of Jewish descent, from there to Brazil in 1941 because he was German. He took on the Brazilian citizenship , but suffered from severe homesickness, which was reflected in the books written there, and therefore returned to Switzerland in 1956. With the books created there, he could not quite build on his earlier successes with travel literature, but was nevertheless a very popular writer of his time with the animal and garden books, which appeared in numerous editions as paperbacks. He died in 1968 in his Villa Locarno-Monti above Locarno.

Works

Travel books

  • A stroll around the world. 1927.
  • Cheerful days with brown people. 1929.
  • Sparkling Far East. 1930.
  • Zigzag through South America. 1931.
  • Harvest. 1932.
  • My island book. Written in 1941, copyright Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1950.
  • Encounters in Rio. Written in 1942, in the second year of his stay in Brazil, copyright Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1945.
  • Strange rides in Brazil. Written at the end of 1944, copyright Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1947.
  • On the Amazon. 1961.
  • World tour on Midsummer Night . 1953.

Animal and garden books

  • Lonely life. A book about dogs and plants. Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1936.
  • From dog to dog. With pen drawings by Helmar Becker-Berke. Albert Müller Verlag, AG, Rüschlikon-Zurich, 1956.
  • Fun with dogs. 1957.
  • About Gartenhag. Albert Müller Verlag, AG, Rüschlikon-Zurich, 1961.
  • Hobby horses
  • Gems of nature

A major ideological work

  • Three faces of Lucifer. Noise, machines, business. 1952.

Almost autobiographical

  • Suffering in the city. 1938.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC . Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Proof
  3. ↑ Carl Jödicke : When advertising was still called propaganda . In: W. Joachim Freyburg (Ed.): Hundert Jahre Ullstein 1877–1977. Volume 3 . Ullstein, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-550-07373-9 , pp. 119–150, here p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian journalist and travel writer of Bohemian origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1968
Place of death Muralto , Ticino