author
Norbert Jacques
1880–1954
Best known for creating the criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse, this Luxembourg-born writer helped shape one of German cinema’s most memorable villains. He worked across novels, journalism, screenwriting, and translation, building a career that moved easily between literature and film.
4 Audiobooks
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler : Roman
by Norbert Jacques
Dr. Mabuse, master of mystery : a novel
by Norbert Jacques
Piraths Insel : Roman
by Norbert Jacques
Der Hafen : Roman
by Norbert Jacques
About the author
Born in Eich, Luxembourg, on 6 June 1880, Norbert Jacques wrote in German and worked as a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and translator. He is most closely associated with Dr. Mabuse, the sinister master criminal he introduced in his fiction and who later became famous through Fritz Lang’s film adaptations.
Jacques spent much of his career in the German-speaking literary world and became a German citizen in 1922. His work ranged beyond crime fiction, but Dr. Mabuse remained his defining creation, giving him a lasting place in both popular literature and film history.
He died in Koblenz, West Germany, on 15 May 1954. Today, he is remembered as a Luxembourgish-born writer whose imagination left a strong mark on 20th-century storytelling, especially where the worlds of the novel and the cinema meet.