Robert Fuchs-Liska

Robert Fuchs-Liska (also: Robert Fuchs , born November 14, 1870 in Homburg before the height , † November 5, 1935 in Bad Nauheim , Hesse ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Robert Fuchs-Liska attended secondary school in his home town of Homburg vor der Höhe and later in Coburg . At the age of sixteen he ran away from home and went to sea as a cabin boy . On ships of the merchant marine he completed training leading to the award of the helmsman - patent led. However, since he continued to only find jobs as an able seaman , he left his ship on a trip to the South Seas without authorization and later found a job as a secretary on a plantation in the Dutch East Indies . However, there he became so seriously illMalaria that he was forced to return to Germany in 1893.

After his return, Robert Fuchs-Liska completed a vocal training with a tenor at the Frankfurt Opera with the aim of becoming an opera singer . However, since he suffered from excessive stage fright on the opera stage , he switched to acting , in particular to the comic subject and operetta . From 1894 he received engagements in Vienna , Hamburg , Berlin and finally at the Stadttheater in Bern , where he lived for four years. During this time, in addition to his work at the theater, he attended literary lectures at the University of Bern and published his first literary works in magazines.

Since the beginning of the 1920s, Fuchs-Liska was permanently engaged at the theater in Bad Kissingen . His most productive literary period falls in the decade from 1915 to 1924. In 1924 he was forced to give up his work as an actor for health reasons . From 1934 he was part of the editorial team of the Taunusbote in Bad Homburg .

Robert Fuchs-Liska was the author of novels , stories , fairy tales , poems and a play . In the narrative field, he proved to be unusually versatile: he wrote a. a. Adventure novels , homeland novels , detective novels , historical , humorous and erotic novels. Although his works, such as For example, the historical novel Härmlein von Reifenberg and the two youth books The Last Robinson and The Two Sailor Bibles were quite successful and had several editions, Robert Fuchs-Liska was largely forgotten immediately after his death. Shortly before, his books Shameless Souls and Miss Sünde had been put on the “ list of harmful and undesirable literature ” by the National Socialist regime .

Works

• Waldpfade , Bern 1901 (under the name Robert Fuchs)
• Blind discs , Leipzig 1906
• To the fatherland, to the expensive ... , Leipzig 1915
• The same and other novellas , Leipzig 1915
• Härmlein von Reifenberg , Frankfurt a. M. 1915
• Pithekonat, the primordial human being , Leipzig 1915
• Siebenhäusergasse and other short stories , Leipzig 1915
• For one summer , Bad Kissingen, 1915
• The Zoppekratz , Frankfurt a. M. 1915
• Prometheus bound , Leipzig 1916
• Hatzicho the Wolf , Frankfurt a. M. 1916
• The love of pity , Leipzig 1916
• The furnished gentleman , Leipzig 1917
• Simeon Hackbarth's renunciations , Leipzig 1917
• Fabian Splitterschleich's purifications , Leipzig 1918
• The holy bitterness , Leipzig 1918
• Jan Maat's green box , Leipzig 1918
• The hash smoker , Berlin 1919
• Miss Sünde , Berlin 1920
• The love of the white woman , Munich 1920
• Princess Fiedelinchen and other new German fairy tales , Munich 1920
• Das Roterchen and other fairy tales , Munich 1920
• Shameless souls , Berlin 1920
• Leaping shadows , Berlin 1920
• Stepchildren of Happiness , Berlin 1920
• Heavenly power , Leipzig 1920
• The amulet made from human skin , Berlin 1921
• The murderous Lenz , Berlin 1922
• The last Robinson , Stuttgart 1923
• The haunted skull , Berlin 1923
• Lay astrology , Kempten (Allgäu) 1924
• The two sailor Bibles , Stuttgart 1924
• The green snake stone , Stuttgart 1927
• The golden mosquito , Berlin 1935
• Death in the Eye of the Needle , Berlin 1937
• A blonde woman's hair , Berlin 1937

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Fuchs-Liska  - Sources and full texts

• Works by Robert Fuchs-Liska in the Gutenberg-DE project