Johannes Kaltenboeck (

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, 29 June 1853 - c. 1919) was a writer from

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

known by his adventure stories. He had three pen names: Max Felde, Fritz Holten and Andries van Straaden. His life is not very known. He started publishing several novels regularly from 1897 to 1917 in '' Der Gute Kamerad'' collections and he was the director of this publication after Wilhelm Speemann. He also wrote patriotic tales during

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, and his novel about aeroplanes ''Das Aeromobil'' was very successful.

Works

As Max Felde

*''Der Arrapahu'' (1900) *''Addy, der Rifleman'' (1900) *''Das Astoria-Abenteuer'' (1901) *''Villa Biberheim'' (1903) *''Der Sohn der Wälder'' (1905) *''Abd ur Rahman, der Muzlime'' (1909) *''Denkwürdige Kriegserlebnisse'' (1915) *''Mit vereinten Kräften'' (1916) *''Das Gold vom Sacramento'' (1917)

As Andries van Straaden

*''Der Depeschenreiter'' (1901)

As Fritz Holten

*''Das Polarschiff'' (1910) *''Das Aeromobil'' (1912)

Bibliography

* Friedrich Schegk et Heinrich Wimmer, ''Lexikon der Reise- und Abenteuerliteratur'', Meitingen, 1988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaltenboeck, Johannes 1853 births 1919 deaths Writers from Austria-Hungary