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Friedrich Huch
1873–1913
A sharp, psychologically minded novelist of early 20th-century Germany, he wrote fiction that explored middle-class life, ambition, and emotional tension. Though he died young, his work earned real success in his lifetime and remains tied to the literary mood of the fin de siècle.
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Pitt und Fox, die Liebeswege der Brüder Sintrup: Roman
by Friedrich Huch
About the author
Born in Braunschweig in 1873, Friedrich Huch was a German writer who studied philology in cities including Munich, Paris, and Erlangen before turning fully to literature. He also worked as a tutor, editor, and reader, experiences that fed into the close social observation in his fiction.
Huch is often linked with German Decadent writing around the turn of the century, but his novels are also noted for their psychological insight and their skeptical view of bourgeois values. He published novels, stories, and other prose, and contemporary readers knew him well enough for him to enjoy commercial success during his lifetime.
From 1904 he lived in Munich as a freelance writer. He died there in 1913, only 39 years old, after complications following an ear operation, leaving behind a body of work that later became less widely known than that of some of his literary contemporaries.