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B. Traven
Sign in to saveAlso known as Otto Feige, Torsvan, Berick Torsvan, Bernhard Traven Torsvan, Torsvan Croves, Traven, Ret Marut, Hal Croves
German novelist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 March 1890?
- Died
- 27 March 1969
- Works
- 69
Top works
- An das Fräulein von S.....
- The death ship
- Antología de la literatura fantástica
- השושנה הלבנה
- Der Wobbly
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Film & TV
Writing · Schwiebus, Brandenburg, German Empire (today Świebodzin, Polen)
B. Traven (Bruno Traven) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, most likely Hermann Otto Albert Maximilian Feigewhose. However B. Traven's "real" name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1882
- Active to
- 1969
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 36
- Total plays
- 912
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “Von den dreien: Staat, Regierung und Ich, bin Ich der Stärkste. Das merkt Euch!”
- “Ich warte nicht auf die Einigkeit; denn ich bin die Einigkeit. / Ich warte nicht auf die Masse; denn ich bin die Masse. / Ich warte nicht auf die Revolution; denn ich bin die Revolution. / Ehe die Revolution ist, muß der Revolutionär sein! / Ehe die Masse ist, muß der Einzelne sein! / Ehe die Einigkeit ist, muß der Eine sein, der Selbe! / Das Wort muß sein, bevor das Feldgeschrei und die Parole sein können.”
- “My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; ... no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”
- “[In response to the question "Who the hell are you?"] If I knew, I think I would not be able to continue writing, or wouldn't have written the books I have written.”
- “I am freer than anybody else. I am free to choose the parents I want, the country I want, the age I want.”
- “An author should have no other biography than his books.”
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Key facts
- Occupation
- Writer
- Notable works
- The Death Ship The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Jungle Novels
- Children
- Rosa Elena Montés de Oca Luján, María Eugenia Montes de Oca Luján (stepdaughter)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- B. Traven aka Red Marut arrest photo in London 1923 (front).jpg
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- Commons category
- B. Traven
- pseudonym
- Otto Wienecke
- name in native language
- Bruno Traven
- date of birth
- 1890-02-23
- date of death
- 1969-03-26
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- end of work period
- 1968-00-00
Sources (8)
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Article
B. Traven ( German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.
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