Felix Pinner

Born in 1880, Felix Pinner became known in Germany as a journalist, economic commentator, and author. He wrote about business and industry for major newspapers and published books on economic life and leading industrial figures, building a reputation for making complex subjects understandable to general readers.

He also wrote literary works under the pen name Frank Faßland. After the Nazi regime came to power, Pinner went into exile, eventually living in New York. His life ended there in 1942, a fate that reflects the wider destruction and displacement experienced by many German-Jewish writers and intellectuals of his generation.

Today he is remembered both for his reporting on the modern economy and for the way his career connects journalism, literature, and exile history in the first half of the twentieth century.