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Walther August Gottfried Kabel (born August 8, 1878 in Danzig ; † May 6, 1935 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German entertainment writer . He is considered to be one of the most widely read German folk writers of the 1920s. He published under the pseudonyms Walter Kabel, Max Schraut, Olaf Karl Abelsen, W. Belka, Walther Neuschub, William Käbler, ME Schugge, Waltraud Kebla, Wally Lebka, Swea von Münde, K. Walter, W. i. Zehlen, WK Leba, Walther Bekal, W. von Neuhof, WK Abel, Karla Walther, Helene Fromm, Theodor Kabelitz and Rudolf Berg.
Life
Walther Kabel's father was a professional soldier, he sent his son to a high school. After graduating from high school, he studied law and became a trainee lawyer.
Probably during his time as a recruit (from 1906) Kabel came into contact with the publisher Max Lehmann , who was then head of the "Berliner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft". In 1909 Lehmann renamed his company to “Verlag modern Lektüre”; it became one of the most successful houses for trivial literature. For the small-format magazine series “Manne and Max” Kabel wrote over fifty titles under the pseudonym “Walther Neuschub”, which were reprinted repeatedly by the publisher.
Kabel took part in the First World War as a frontline officer. During this time he wrote eleven titles under the pseudonym W. Belka for the series "Das Eiserne Kreuz", which Lehmann had founded. After the First World War, Kabel also published erotic literature in the publisher's "Intime Stories" series. He chose MESchugge as his pseudonym .
His first long detective novel "Das Haus am Mühlengraben" was such a success that the publisher Lehmann offered him to become the main author of a weekly series of novels, which was published with the title "The Detective". In 1921 the title of the series was changed to "Harald Harst - From My Life". Kabel chose the name Max Schraut as a pseudonym, who also acts as the first-person narrator in the booklets. By 1933 396 booklets had been published in this series. Another extensive series was “Olaf K. Abelsen's adventures off the beaten track”, which appeared in fifty paperback books with 160 to 190 pages in the “Verlag modern reading”, the adventures of someone innocently persecuted around the globe.
After the National Socialists “ seized power ” in 1933, Kabel was convicted of being a “filthy and rubbish author” and banned from writing, despite being a member of the NSDAP . His works were banned. He himself resigned from the NSDAP. He died in Kleinmachnow in May 1935 from a gunshot wound, possibly suicide .
The German National Library now lists 495 individual issues and books by Kabel.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Kabel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Walther Kabel in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Website about Walther Kabel
- The banned writer Walther Kabel (1878-1935) on laptop-krimis.de
- Walther Kabel: Science Fiction Novels. 33 titles in one book. Musaicum Books / OK-Publishing / e-artnow, o. O. 2017, ISBN 978-80-7583-524-6 (ISBN not listed in a common catalog; preview of the eBook on Google Books )
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| SURNAME | Cable, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kabel, Walther August Gottfried (full name); Abel, WK; Belka, Walther (pseudonym); Belka, W. (pseudonym); Kebla, William; Kebla, Waltraud; Lebka, Wally; Münde, Swea von; Neuschub, Walther; Walter, K .; Zehlen, W. i .; Leba, WK; Schraut, Max (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1935 |
| Place of death | Kleinmachnow |