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1872–1920
A prolific German popular writer and journalist, he moved easily between novels, magazines, and the early film world. His career captures a lively moment when adventure fiction and new screen storytelling were growing side by side.

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by Kurt Matull, Theo von Blankensee, Felix (Leonard Felix) Hageman

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Born in 1872, Kurt Matull was a German writer, journalist, director, and screenwriter who worked across several forms of popular entertainment. He belonged to the energetic print culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when serialized fiction, magazine writing, and mass-market storytelling reached wide audiences.
Matull is especially remembered as a versatile literary professional rather than for a single famous book. His work stretched from journalism into fiction and then into the emerging cinema industry, showing how adaptable some writers of his era had to be as new media appeared.
He died in 1920, still relatively young. Today he is of particular interest to readers and historians who enjoy overlooked figures from German literary and film history, especially those who helped bridge the worlds of pulp fiction, reportage, and early screenwriting.