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Georg Reicke
1863–1923
A Berlin civic leader who also wrote fiction and drama, he moved between public life and literary work with unusual ease. His books reflect the interests of a man shaped by city politics, culture, and the changing world of late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
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Woge und Wind: Eine Strandnovelle in Versen
by Georg Reicke
About the author
Born in Königsberg on November 26, 1863, and dying in Berlin on April 7, 1923, Georg Reicke was a German politician and author. He is especially remembered as Berlin’s second mayor, a role he held from 1903 to 1919, while also maintaining a literary career.
Reicke wrote novels and plays, and library and catalog records show works including Im Spinnenwinkle and the drama Blutopfer. That mix of administration and writing gives his career a distinctive shape: he belonged to public life, but he also kept one foot in the world of imagination and letters.
Today, he is an interesting figure for readers who enjoy authors with lives beyond the page. His work sits at the crossroads of literature, civic responsibility, and German cultural life in the years before and after the First World War.