Heinrich Christian Johann Spoerl (; 1887–1955) was a German author.

Biography

Spoerl was born on 8 February 1887 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

, where he also grew up. He studied jurisprudence in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approxima ...

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and

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

and was a solicitor in Düsseldorf from 1919 till 1937. He became a full-time writer in 1937 when he moved to

, which he left in 1941 to move to

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

. He took up law again from 1945 till 1948. He died on 25 August 1955 in

Rottach-Egern Rottach-Egern () is a municipality (''Gemeinde Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee'') and town located at Lake Tegernsee in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria, Germany, about 55 km (35 miles) south of central Munich. Late Austrian actor Walter Sl ...

. Spoerl wrote a number of humorous novels and comedies, most of which were made into films: * '' Die Feuerzangenbowle'', 1933 * ''Wenn wir alle Engel wären'', 1936 * ''Der Maulkorb'', 1936 * ''Der Gasmann'', 1940 * ''Die Hochzeitsreise'', 1946 * ''Die weisse Weste'', 1946

References

*''Dtv Lexikon'', Band 17, Munich 1970, p. 203

External links

* 1887 births 1955 deaths 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights 20th-century German male writers 20th-century German novelists German humorists German male dramatists and playwrights German male novelists Writers from Düsseldorf People from the Rhine Province {{Germany-writer-stub