Richard Katz (writer)

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Richard Katz
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Plate from Ein Bummel um die Welt
Born(1888-11-21)November 21, 1888
Prague, Austria-Hungary
DiedNovember 8, 1968(1968-11-08) (aged 79)
Muralto, Tessin
OccupationWriter and journalist
Genre Travel literature

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.

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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 Die Weite Weite Welt (The Wide, Wide World) emerged, including Ein Bummel um die Welt, Funkelnder Ferner Osten, Heitere Tage mit braunen Menschen, Schnapps Kokain und Lamas, Ernte (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

Untranslated German travel books

Stories regarding domestic matters

Political work

Autobiographical works

Literature

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References

  1. "Katz Richard 21.10.1900-8.11.1968 – Personal". Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID.
  2. 1 2 3 Zweig, Casa Stefan (2022-04-27). "Katz, Richard". Biographical Dictionary of Refugees of Nazi Fascism in Brazil. Imprimatur. p. 420. ISBN   978-65-5905-413-8.
  3. Roth, Joseph (2012-01-16). Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-393-08309-5.