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Livingstone Hahn
1889–1961
A little-known German writer remembered today mainly for Kriminal-Sonette, a witty, offbeat collaboration that mixes poetry with crime and satire. Though biographical details are scarce, the work has kept his name in literary and public-domain catalogs long after his lifetime.
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Kriminal-Sonette
by Friedrich Eisenlohr, Livingstone Hahn, Ludwig Rubiner
About the author
Livingstone Hahn (1889–1961) was a German author whose name survives chiefly through Kriminal-Sonette, a collection associated with Ludwig Rubiner and Friedrich Eisenlohr. The book was originally published in the early 20th century and has remained visible through library records, bookseller listings, and Project Gutenberg editions.
Reliable biographical information about Hahn is limited in the sources currently available online. A German national-library authority record confirms his name and life dates, but it does not offer much detail about his personal life, career, or wider body of work. Because of that, he is best introduced as a minor literary figure whose reputation rests on a distinctive collaborative volume rather than on a well-documented public career.
That relative obscurity is part of what makes Hahn interesting. He belongs to the large group of writers who are not widely known today, yet still left behind work significant enough to be preserved, reprinted, and rediscovered by curious readers.