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Felix Schloemp
1880–1916
A sharp, playful voice from early 20th-century Germany, he worked across books, magazines, and satire. His surviving titles show a taste for humor, oddity, and lively popular storytelling.
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About the author
Born in Leipzig on September 5, 1880, Felix Schloemp was a German bookseller, library assistant, editor, and freelance writer. He is especially linked with humorous and satirical writing, and he also worked as an editor for the magazine Lustige Blätter.
Schloemp published and edited a range of light, entertaining books, including joke collections and anthologies with a comic or uncanny edge. Works associated with him include Die meschuggene Ente, Der tolle Koffer, and later-known anthologies such as Das Gespensterbuch and Das unheimliche Buch, which helped bring together playful, spooky, and offbeat reading for a broad audience.
He died in Russia in 1916. Although he is not widely known today, digital archives and library catalogs show that his work continued to circulate, especially among readers interested in German humor, satire, and curious early 20th-century popular literature.