Richard Katz (writer)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Richard Katz (November 21, 1888 – November 8, 1968),[1] was a German journalist, travel writer, and essayist from Bohemia.[2] While writing both grandiose and humble prose, his style is consistently imbued with a sense of humor, humility and love for all things living.

Early years

Richard Katz was born on November 21, 1888, in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic).[2] His family was an ethnic minority of Sudeten Germans living in the Sudetenland.[2]

After graduation, Katz studied law at The German University in Prague. During his studies, he wrote for a variety of newspapers and magazines. Upon graduation, he began work with the now defunct Vossische Zeitung newspaper in their Prague office.[3] During this placement, he spent a year in East Asia working as a traveling reporter.

Career in journalism

After the First World War, Katz moved to Leipzig and in 1924 he became director of the Leipzig Publishing Company, a position he held for two years. In the years between 1928 and 1930, he was a clerk for the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin. While working in this position, Katz founded the Green Post, a periodical which very quickly reached a circulation of over one million. The financial success allowed Katz to establish himself as an independent writer, giving him the freedom to travel the world while writing of his experiences.

Travel and publication

During the period between 1925 and his death, Katz published nearly thirty-five volumes, mostly personally written journalistic travel books. In the late twenties, his five-book series Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Wide, Wide World) emerged, including Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (name translations below). His other areas of interests were animals – specifically dogs – and gardening. Some of his most refreshing works center around the personalities of dogs, and the methods one must employ to be a successful gardener.

In 1933, Katz emigrated to Switzerland. In 1941, he moved to Brazil obtaining citizenship there. In 1956 he returned to Switzerland where he died in 1968 living above Locarno.

Selected works

Works translated into English

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Loafing Around the Globe)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Rays From the East)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Solitary Life)

Untranslated German travel books

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Pleasant Days with Brown Peoples)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Zig-Zagging Through South America)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Harvest)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (The voyage round the world in the Johannisnacht)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (My Island Book – first experiences in Brazil)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Strange travels in Brazil)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Travel Fever)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Meetings in Rio)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (On the Amazon)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Per Hill's hardest case – a serious detective story)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (A Great Deal from a Far Off Country)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Wandering World)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Greetings from the Hammock)

Stories regarding domestic matters

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Nature's Jewels)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Four Stories on Animals)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (From Dog to Dog)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (On Gardening)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Hobbies)

Political work

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Three Faces of Lucifer: Noise, Machines, Business)

Autobiographical works

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Lost in the City)
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Solitary Life)

Literature

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Richard_Katz_(writer)&oldid=5724100"