Richard Skowronnek

Born in East Prussia in 1862, Richard Skowronnek was a German journalist, dramaturg, and novelist. He worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung and later went to Berlin as an accredited parliamentary reporter at the Reichstag. In 1897–98, he also served as a dramaturg at the Royal Schauspielhaus in Berlin.

Skowronnek wrote comedies and popular novels, often drawing on life in East Prussian estates, officers’ circles, and student worlds. His fiction is especially associated with Masuria and East Prussia, and works such as Sturmzeichen and Das große Feuer were noted for bringing that region and its concerns to a broader German audience.

He was the younger brother of the writer Fritz Skowronnek. Later in life he lived in Pomerania, where he died in 1932.