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Hans Arthur Thies

1893–1954

A German writer and editor whose work ranged from fiction to cultural history, he is also remembered for the novel behind the 1942 film Geheimakte W.B.1. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his books an added sense of discovery.

1 Audiobook

Die Gnadenwahl: Erzählung

Die Gnadenwahl: Erzählung

by Hans Arthur Thies

About the author

Born in Hanover on November 27, 1893, Hans Arthur Thies was a German writer and editor. Library and authority records identify him as both a Schriftsteller and Redakteur, and place his life between 1893 and 1954.

Available reference sources suggest a varied career rather than a single defining genre. He is linked to the novel Der Eiserne Seehund, which was adapted as the 1942 film Geheimakte W.B.1, and he also published books including König Ludwig I. und die Schönheiten seiner Galerie in 1954.

Thies died on December 6, 1954. Detailed biographical information appears to be limited in major reference sources, so what remains most visible today is the range of his writing and the traces it left in film and book history.