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Walter Julius Bloem
1898–1945
A German writer who also published as Kilian Koll, he came from a literary family and worked across novels, stories, radio plays, and film. His life was closely shaped by both world wars, giving his work a strong link to the turbulent world around him.
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The soul of the moving picture
by Walter Julius Bloem
About the author
Born in Barmen on October 22, 1898, he was the son of novelist Walter Bloem. To avoid confusion with his father, he published under the pseudonym Kilian Koll.
Reference sources identify him as a German writer and note that he wrote in several forms, including novels, short fiction, radio plays, and film work. One of the works most often mentioned in library and biographical records is Urlaub auf Ehrenwort from 1937, which was later adapted for the screen.
His biography is inseparable from the upheavals of his time: records describe him as an officer in the First and Second World Wars, and major German biographical databases list him as missing in 1945 in Berlin. A reliable portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I could confirm, so no profile photo is included.