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051 The Curve by Hanns Heinz Ewers

Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

051 The Curve by Hanns Heinz Ewers. This humorous story depicts two types of study of curves and reminds me of today’s modern world. Which type of curves do you study?

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050 The Wonder of Oberpurzelsheim by George Hirschfeld

Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

050 The Wonder of Oberpurzelsheim by George Hirschfeld. Mr. Leopold Rohricht is the pharmacist of Oberpurzelsheim and a good person. He loves to talk and he is very good at debate. So good that no one likes to be caught in a conversation with him because they are certain to lose. This need to talk incessantly prompted him to marry a beautiful, but mute woman who could not talk back! Who couldn’t get away from him.
But Oberpurzelsheim is an unusual place and unusual things happen there sometimes. Not very often but when they do it really is something to talk about!

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The Witch of Sanlúcar by Hanns Krüger-Welf

Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Who is the witch of Sanlúcar and what is her story! That is what a stranger wants to know after he encounters a strange old woman on the street. What he finds out is deeply troubling to him and to the reader of this classic tale.
I deliberately went searching for any stories by Hanns Krüger-Welf after translating his biography on Hanns Heinz Ewers. This is all that I found, but I’m glad I did. This story is very special in many ways!
To publish this story as a small hard cover book is the closest that I can come to offering something special and worth collecting. I don’t do it very often. But I felt it was worth it! Enjoy!

Available as a Hardcover and an Epub.

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Hanns Heinz Ewers The Story of His Development

Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This powerful and moving biography of Hanns Heinz Ewers was published in 1922 while he was still alive and presumably with his consent and blessing. It is written by someone who knows him well and is able to tell us more about the author than simple names, dates and places.
This beautiful book fully complements another book called the Hanns Heinz Ewers Brevier and gives additional insight into what this author was really like. Translated into the English for the first time by Joe E. Bandel. Now Available as a hardcover, paperback and Epub.

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049 The Shot in the Witches’ Moss by Paul Busson

Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

049 The Shot in the Witche’s Moss by Paul Busson. Something happened in the Witche’s Moss many years ago, something bad. And ever since then it has been haunted and become an evil place. It’s a bad place to be lost, especially on one particular day. . .

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Jugend Vol 1, No. 3

Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Jugend and Simplicissimus were two of the most popular literary and art periodicals of their time and were highly competitive with each other. So I have been highly curious to compare the two. So far my favorite has been Simplicissimus but I want to give Jugend some time and see if it will grow on me as well. This issue kind of gets off on the wrong foot by singing the praises of Bismark and the War of 1870 of which I really have no interest. Stories include:

Master of All Arts by F.v.O.; The War of 1870 by Tanera; Farewell and Gone by Albert Matthael; Spring Wind by Lisbeth Lindemann; Dusk on the Lake by Hermann von Lingg; Before and After; After and Before by Paul Heyse; The Never-Embarrassed by Georg Botticher; The Brain of Our Dear Sisters by Georg Hirth (which is satire) This issue is free to download as an Epub or PDF file.

Jugend Vol 1, No. 3

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Simplicissimus Vol 1, No. 3

Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This beautiful issue really touches the heart in so many ways! It is my favorite so far and I only wish that others could experience the magic that is in these stories! In this isssue: Ruth by Jakob Wassermann; Round Table by Arthur Holitscher; In the Castle of Mirabel by Otto Julius Bierbaum; The Over-Excited Person by Arthur Schnitzler; Prayer by Korsiz Holm; The Poor Girl by Frank Wedekind; Rival by Marcel Prüévost. This issue is free to download as Epub and PDF on my Patreon page. I encourage people to read these first issues and fall in love with them as I have and consider becoming patrons!

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048 The Hounds of Romanov by Bodo Wildberg

Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

048 The Hounds of Romanov by Bodo Wildberg. Heta Romanov thought she was safe in the deep woods near home until a mad shepherd said that he would be the next King of Poland and she would be his queen! His hounds would come and bring her to him!

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The Fire Lily and Other Stories by Leonhard Stein

Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Leonhard Stein is one of Germany’s forgotten writers who disappeared shortly after World War I. His work has been compared to that of Hanns Heinz Ewers and Karl Hans Strobl and I am inclined to agree. He published three slim volumes: “The Ballet of Death”; “The Flute Player”; and “The Fire Lily”. In addition I”ve included a story from Vol 1, No. 6 of Der Orchideengarten.

The stories included in this collection are: The Electric Piano; Vampyre; The Ring; Hashish; Jaschke; The Mirror; Scherman; The Coat; Li; The Five Branched Candelabra; The Flute Player and The Fire Lily. These stories have been translated into English for the first time by Joe E. Bandel. This book is available as hardcover, paperback and epub.

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047 Rebellion in Nirvana by K. Roellinghof

Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »

047 Rebellion in Nirvana by K. Roellinghof is satire and as appropriate today as it was a hundred years ago. Some things just never change!

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