Rudolf H. Daumann

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Rudolf H. Daumann (born November 2, 1896 in Groß-Gohlau near Neumarkt , Silesia ; † November 30, 1957 in Potsdam ; full name Rudolf Heinrich Daumann ) was a German writer .

Life

Daumann comes from a farming family. He worked as a primary school teacher and was badly wounded in World War I. In the 1920s he practiced his teaching profession again at times, but also undertook extensive trips and reported as a correspondent for German newspapers from Africa and America. After he had described the industrial action of Silesian miners in 1869 in his debut novel Strik in 1932 , he was dismissed from school service by the National Socialists in 1933. In the following years Daumann published a series of utopian trivial novels in the tradition of Hans Dominik as bread works . In 1943 his works were banned by the National Socialist censors . The author went to Austria , where he joined the illegal Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and was active in the resistance from 1944. In 1946 he returned to Germany; he went to the Soviet zone and became the broadcast manager of the state broadcaster Potsdam. In the 1950s he worked as a freelance writer based in Potsdam. In 1957 he was awarded the Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district .

After his proletarian and utopian phase, Daumann wrote, in addition to a few historical novels , mainly youth books on exotic topics in the 1950s . He not only published under his name, but also used the pseudonyms Haerd and Rudolf Hard .

Works

  • The strike , Berlin 1932
  • As thin as an eggshell , Munich 1934
  • Power out of the sun , Berlin 1937
  • The end of gold , Berlin 1938
  • Danger from space , Berlin 1938
  • Patrol against death , Berlin 1939
  • Adventure with Venus , Berlin 1940
  • The island of 1000 wonders , Berlin 1940
  • Protuberances , Berlin 1940
  • The black year , Berlin 1949
  • Alarm in the Salzberg , Berlin 1954
  • The Andean Wolf , Berlin 1954
  • Freedom or Bananas , Berlin 1954
  • Hearts in the Storm , Berlin 1954
  • The Marwitz Cossacks , Berlin 1954
  • The robbers von Raue , Berlin 1954
  • Kiwi-Kiwi-Diamonds , Berlin 1955
  • Mauki, the Bushman , Berlin 1955
  • Turtles on the Orinoco , Berlin 1955
  • Stormy days on the Rhine , Berlin 1955
  • Tatanka-Yotanka , Berlin 1955
  • The death ride of the Dakota , Berlin 1955
  • Almost Anno Tobak , Berlin 1956
  • The dragons live , Berlin 1956
  • Okapi, the false Johnston horse , Berlin 1956
  • The four arrows of the Cheyenne , Berlin 1957
  • The sinking of the Dakota , Berlin 1957
  • The man with the machete , Berlin 1968

literature

  • Franz Rottensteiner : Daumann, Rudolf Heinrich . In: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe , edited by Christoph F. Lorenz, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 225-230

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personal data
SURNAME Daumann, Rudolf H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daumann, Rudolf Heinrich; Haerd, Rudolf Hard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Gohlau near Neumarkt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1957
Place of death Potsdam