Theodor Etzel

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Theodor Etzel (also: Theodor Schulze-Etzel , pseudonyms for Theodor Schulze , born January 9, 1873 in Gelnhausen , † September 3, 1930 in Bad Aibling ) was a German writer .

Life

Theodor Etzel was the son of a district secretary and later mayor . From 1876 Theodor Etzel grew up in Kirchberg (Hunsrück) . He attended high schools in Fulda and Bonn . From 1892 he worked as a civil servant with the governorate of the Rhine province in Düsseldorf , from 1897 with the Rheinische Provinzial-Arbeitsanstalt in Brauweiler near Cologne . From 1898 he lived as a freelance writer a . a. in St. Johann (Saar) and in Niederseelbach im Taunus . In 1901 he settled in Berlin , where he was editor of the magazines Das Moderne Brettl and Fröhliche Kunst . After further stops, he lived in Munich from 1904 to 1913 ; there published the magazine The Reading and together with Roda Roda the series The Funny Books . Etzel was married twice: from 1908 with the writer and translator Gisela Waltner and from 1914 with Alma Schütze; the second marriage had four children. Theodor Etzel took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1919 to 1925 he was literary director of the Stuttgart publishing house Walter Seifert. He last lived in Ottobeuren .

Theodor Etzel was the author of novels , fables and poems . He also acted as an editor of literary anthologies . He translated works by Jean de La Fontaine and Edgar Allan Poe into German and published the collected works of Poe .

Fonts

  • A fable book , Munich 1901 (together with Hanns Heinz Ewers )
  • Fairy tales and fables for big and small children , Berlin 1902 (together with Hanns Heinz Ewers and Maria Ewers )
  • The happy animal book , Munich 1903 (together with Egon Hugo Strassburger)
  • Days of Life , Gr.-Lichterfeld-Berlin 1904 (under the name Theodor Schulze-Etzel)
  • The Rohrspatz , Munich 1907
  • Reineke Fuchs , Stuttgart 1909
  • Von Löwen und Lausbuben , Munich 1909
  • Aerial adventure , Stuttgart 1914
  • Das Urwaldkind , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1920
  • The next life , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1922
  • Fables , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1923
  • Circles of love , Heilbronn 1925
  • Love for the Dead , Berlin 1929

Editing

  • Happy Art , Berlin 1902 (published together with Victor von Reisner )
  • Fables and parables of world literature , Leipzig 1907
  • Welthumor , Berlin [a. a.] 1910 (published together with Alexander Roda Roda )
    • 1. Laughing Germany , 1910
    • 2. A Happy Century , 1910
    • 3. Three miles past Christmas , 1910
    • 4. The foreign joke , 1911
    • 5. The good old days , 1911
  • 111 fables for young people , Stuttgart 1912
  • The Wunderkelch , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1920 (published together with Karl Lerbs )
  • Edgar Allan Poe : Works , Berlin
    • 1. Poems , 1922
    • 2. Stories of Beauty, Love and the Second Coming , 1922
    • 3. Criminal Stories , 1922
    • 4. The adventurers Pym and Rodman , 1922
    • 5. Fantastic rides , 1922
    • 6. Joke and ridicule stories , 1922
  • Alfred Edmund Brehm : Brehm's most beautiful animal stories , Munich 1925

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personal data
SURNAME Etzel, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze-Etzel, Theodor; Schulze, Theodor (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1930
Place of death Bad Aibling