Wilhelm Cremer (writer)

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Wilhelm Cremer (born May 19, 1874 in Krefeld , † July 11, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German writer and translator.

life and work

Wilhelm Cremer was the son of a businessman. He attended high school and studied at the universities in Berlin and Munich . He made extensive trips in Europe and overseas. He later lived as a freelance writer in Berlin-Steglitz. Before the First World War he published a number of novels and volumes of short stories. After 1918 he was the editor of popular classics and school reading books. He also translated numerous works from English and French.

Works

  • Lost Sons , Berlin 1906
  • The great gate , Berlin 1909
  • Love is so strange , Berlin 1909
  • The hilarious idiot , Berlin 1910
  • On the old wall , Berlin 1911
  • The unmasked Berlin , Berlin 1913
  • The moral law of war , Diesdorf near Gäbersdorf 1915
  • The Foreign Legion - a threat to the occupied territory , Berlin 1920
  • Young World , Berlin 1920
  • The discovery of the globe , Berlin 1924; Reprint 2009 (?): ISBN 978-3-8262-0303-9

Editing

  • Arab nights , Berlin 1922
  • Brandenburgisches Lesebuch , Bielefeld [u. a.] (edited together with Oskar Wahnelt)
  • The Devil's Legacy , Berlin 1923
  • The hangman , Berlin 1923
  • Lewis Wallace : Ben Hur , Berlin 1924
  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : The astute Junker Don Quixote from La Manche , Berlin 1925
  • Wilhelm Hauff : Lichtenstein , Berlin 1925
  • Alexandre Dumas père : The Three Musketeers , Berlin 1926
  • Alexandre Dumas père: Twenty years later , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : The river pirates of the Mississippi , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker: Gold , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker: The regulators in Arkansas , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker: Tahiti , Berlin 1926
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker: Under the Equator , Berlin 1926
  • Our Mark Brandenburg , Bielefeld (published together with Oskar Bahnelt)
  • Von deutscher Art und Kunst , Bielefeld (published together with Karl Kaul)
  • Werner von Siemens : From Werner von Siemens' memoirs , Bielefeld 1929
  • German poems , Bielefeld [u. a.] 1931

Translations

  • Honoré de Balzac : The maddened stories , Berlin 1924
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton : The last days of Pompeii , Berlin 1924
  • Victor F. Calverton : The bankruptcy of marriage , Hellerau b. Dresden 1929
  • Theodore Dreiser : The Titan , Berlin [u. a.] (translated together with Marianne Schön)
  • Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary , Berlin 1924
  • Joseph S. Fletcher : The woman with the two names , Hellerau 1929
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The Secret of Markenmore , Hellerau 1930
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The money of the dead , Hellerau 1929
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The House That Was Open , Hellerau 1930
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The man who lay in the forest , Hellerau 1931
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The safety pin , Hellerau 1930
  • Joseph S. Fletcher: The crime in the night train , Hellerau 1930
  • Richard Austin Freeman : The house with the three entrances , Hellerau b. Dresden 1931
  • Richard Austin Freeman: The Red Thumbprint , Hellerau 1932
  • Richard Austin Freeman: Shadows of the Deep , Hellerau 1932
  • Richard Austin Freeman: Like a thief in the night , Hellerau near Dresden 1930
  • James Hay : The house without light , Berlin 1922
  • Isaac Don Levine : Stalin, the man of steel , Hellerau 1931
  • Guy de Maupassant : The beautiful friend , Berlin 1924
  • Guy de Maupassant: Our Heart , Berlin 1924
  • Henri Murger : Bohème , Berlin 1925
  • Edgar Allan Poe : Mysterious and Eerie Stories , Berlin 1923
  • Edgar Allan Poe: Strange Stories , Berlin 1925
  • Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles : History of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux , Berlin 1926
  • Marcus E. Ravage : Splendor and Decline of the House of Rothschild , Hellerau 1930
  • Bernard Shaw : The amateur socialist , Berlin 1908
  • Bernard Shaw: Artist's love , Berlin 1908 (translated together with Alfred Brieger)
  • Bernard Shaw: The foolish marriage , Berlin 1908
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz : Quo vadis? , Berlin 1924
  • Georgij A. Solomon : Among the red rulers , Berlin 1930
  • Cecil John Charles Street : ASF: The way to dreamland , Berlin 1925
  • Lev D. Trockij : The real situation in Russia , Hellerau near Dresden 1928
  • Oscar Wilde : The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Berlin 1922
  • Oscar Wilde: Fairy Tales , Berlin 1922

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personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1932
Place of death Berlin