Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen ( German: Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen ; August 11, 1884 - February 16, 1945) - German writer. His most famous work is Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten (The Diary of the Desperate [4] ), in which the writer's hatred of Adolf Hitler and Nazism found a way out [5] . As a result, Rek-Mallecheven was arrested by the Nazis and died of typhoid in the Dachau concentration camp .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Arrest and death
- 3 Bibliography
- 4 Filmography
- 5 notes
Biography
Friedrich (Fritz) Reck-Mallecheven was born on the estate of Mallecheven, Masuria (now Malechevo, Poland) in the family of the Prussian politician and landowner German Rek. Initially, he wanted to become a musician, for some time he studied medicine in Innsbruck . Then he served as an officer in the Prussian army , but was fired due to diabetes . In 1908 he married Anna Louise Buttner. In the marriage, three daughters and a son were born, but in 1930 the couple broke up.
Having received a medical degree in 1911, Reck got a job as a ship's doctor, and sailed in American waters for a year. After that he moved to Stuttgart , where he chose the career of a journalist and theater critic at the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and then in 1914 he moved closer to Munich , in Pasing. In 1933 he converted to Catholicism and in 1935 married Irmgard von Borke, in a marriage with which three more girls were born.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Rivers also acted as a writer, specializing in children's adventure stories. One of his books, Bomben auf Monte Carlo , was filmed four times. After Hitler came to power, many of Reck's books fell under the ban and were published only years after his death. One of his most famous works is Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten (The Diary of the Desperate), which describes years of life under the rule of the Nazis, whom the writer fiercely hated. This work was first published in 1947, then in 1970 it was published in English by Paul Rubens.
Arrest and death
In his diary in October 1944, Reck writes that the Nazi authorities began to suspect him. On October 13, 1944, the writer was arrested and charged with “undermining the spirit of the armed forces”, the death penalty on the guillotine being the highest penalty. After spending several days in prison, Rivers was unexpectedly released by order of the SS General [6] . However, on December 31, 1944, he was again arrested for "insulting the German currency." This was probably the result of a letter in which Rek complains to the publisher that the level of inflation reduces his royalties [7] . On January 9, 1945, the writer was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp, where diseases were widespread. Under these conditions, he soon contracted typhoid and, according to the official death certificate, died on February 16.
Bibliography
- Uradel, 1914
- Mit Admiral Spee, 1936 (written 1914/15)
- Aus Tsingtau entkommen, 1916
- Der Admiral der Roten Flagge, 1917
- Monteton, 1924
- Die Siedlung Unigtrusttown, 1925
- Frau Übersee, 1926
- Liebesreigen und Fanfaren, 1927
- Die Dame aus New York, 1928
- Sven entdeckt das Paradies, 1928
- Jean Paul Marat, 1929
- Bomben auf Monte Carlo, 1930
- Des Tieres Fall, 1931
- Hundertmark, 1934
- Krach um Payta, 1935
- Ein Mannsbild namens Prack, 1935
- Sophie Dorothee, 1936
- Bockelson. Geschichte eines Massenwahns , 1937
- La Paloma, 1937
- Spiel im Park, 1937
- Der grobe Brief, 1940
- Diana Pontecorvo, 1944
- Das Ende der Termiten, 1946
- Charlotte Corday, 1947
- Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten, 1947 ("Diary of the Desperate")
Filmography
- 1931: Bomben auf Monte Carlo
- 1934: Peer Gynt
- 1941: ... reitet für Deutschland
- 1960: Bomben auf Monte Carlo
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118598821 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ filmportal.de - 2005.
- ↑ Zachevsky A.E. Confrontation between spirit and power: German writers during the Third Reich .
- ↑ Inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com unopened .
- ↑ Diary of a Man in Despair, Reck-Malleczewen (New York Review Books) 2000, p. 212
- ↑ Diary of a Man in Despair, p. 244