Tex Harding (writer)

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Tex Harding (actually Heinrich Peskoller or Pescoller , * 1898 in Austria , † after 1940) was an Austrian writer who wrote adventure novels. At times he also called himself Harry Brown .

Life

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Tex Harding lived in America for a long time . In 1931 he came to Germany , where after the " seizure of power " the Reichsschrifttumskammer withdrew his writing permission and then granted it again. In 1940 he turned to SS-Untersturmführer Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel with the suggestion to conquer French Guiana for Germany. The plan was initially seriously examined in the Reich Security Main Office , but then rejected.

He believes that Tex Harding is "dealing with a very important and unprecedentedly talented author," wrote Walter Benjamin in the summer of 1933 after reading the first chapter of Verschollen. On the trail of Colonel Fawcett .

Works

  • Lost. In the footsteps of Colonel Fawcett, 1933
  • The island of the night fairy tale. An adventurous novel from the tropics , 1934
  • 76 kilos of gold, 1935
  • People who are being hunted, 1938
  • Diamond Rush, 1939
  • Lost in the Footsteps of Colonel Fawcett Parts I and II, New Adventures No. 116 and 115, 1957
  • Jungle gold , (based on 76 kilos of gold , published in the book series World of Adventure ), 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gretel Adorno / Walter Benjamin: Correspondence 1930-1940. Frankfurt a. M. 2019. p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Harding, Tex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peskoller, Heinrich (real name); Pescoller, Heinrich; Brown, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Austria
DATE OF DEATH after 1940