Johannes Kaltenboeck

Austrian writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustrian writer
PlacesGermany
wasWriter Children's writer
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth29 June 1853, Bolzano
Death25 October 1927Stuttgart (aged 74 years)
The details

Biography

Johannes Kaltenboeck (Bozen, June 29, 1853- c. 1919) was an Austrian writer known by his adventure stories. He had three pen names: Max Felde, Fritz Holten and Andries van Straaden.
His life is not very known. He started publishing several novels regularly from 1897 to 1917 in Der Gute Kamerad collections and he was the director of this publication after Wilhelm Speemann. He also wrote patriotic tales during World War I, and his novel about aeroplanes Das Aeromobil was very successful.

Works

As Max Felde

  • Der Arrapahu (1900)
  • Addy, der Rifleman (1900)
  • Das Astoria-Abenteuer (1901)
  • Villa Biberheim (1903)
  • Der Sohn der Wälder (1905)
  • Abd ur Rahman, der Muzlime (1909)
  • Denkwürdige Kriegserlebnisse (1915)
  • Mit vereinten Kräften (1916)
  • Das Gold vom Sacramento (1917)

As Andries van Straaden

  • Der Depeschenreiter (1901)

As Fritz Holten

  • Das Polarschiff (1910)
  • Das Aeromobil (1912)

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