Livingstone Hahn

Livingstone Hahn (1889–1961) was a German writer whose recorded works include the novels Ihr seid das Salz der Erde and Doña Teresa, along with Kriminal-Sonette. Although he is not widely documented today, library records confirm those titles and his lifespan.

He also appears in accounts of the early 1910s literary scene in Paris, where Kriminal-Sonette was written in collaboration with Ludwig Rubiner and Friedrich Eisenlohr. That connection places him near a restless, experimental moment in German-language literature.

Much about his life remains hard to verify from readily available sources, so the outline we have is brief. What does come through clearly is a writer associated with bold, unusual work and a literary world that was testing new forms.