author
Georg Engel
1866–1931
A once best-selling German novelist and dramatist, he wrote popular fiction for a wide readership and also worked as a sharp-eyed literary and theater critic. His career captures a lively slice of Berlin’s literary world around the turn of the 20th century.
4 Audiobooks
Die Last
by Georg Engel
Die Herrin und ihr Knecht
by Georg Engel
Hann Klüth: Roman
by Georg Engel
Claus Störtebecker
by Georg Engel
About the author
Born in Greifswald in 1866, Georg Engel spent his youth in Breslau and later studied philosophy and history in Berlin. After his studies, he worked as an art and theater critic for the Berliner Tageblatt before turning to freelance writing in the early 1890s.
Engel became known as a novelist, dramatist, and literary critic, and his books were published in notably large print runs during his lifetime. He also wrote under the pseudonym Johannes Jörgensen, and several of his works reached audiences beyond the page through film adaptations.
He died in Berlin in 1931. Though he is less widely remembered today than he was in his own era, his work reflects the tastes and literary culture of German readers at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.