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Theo von Blakensee

A prolific early 20th-century German writer, he published crime and popular fiction under several names, including Theo von Blankensee. His work belongs to the lively world of magazine fiction and entertainment literature of his time.

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Lord Lister No. 0119: Het Genootschap der Droomers

Lord Lister No. 0119: Het Genootschap der Droomers

by Theo von Blakensee, Kurt Matull

About the author

Writing as Theo von Blankensee and under several other pseudonyms, Matthias Blank was a German popular novelist and crime writer. Projekt Gutenberg identifies him as a widely read German crime author and lists works such as Der Mord im Ballsaal (1909), Wie Frauen lieben (1919), Ein seltsamer Zeuge (1919), and Das Auge Wischnus (1920).

Library and bibliographic sources connect Theo von Blankensee to Matthias Blank, who was born in Munich in 1881. The record I found suggests he worked across popular genres and published under many pen names, which was common for commercial fiction writers of that era.

Reliable biographical detail appears to be limited online, but the available sources consistently point to him as a productive author of suspense and entertainment fiction in the German-speaking world.