Frank Arnau

Frank Arnau (March 9, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was the pseudonym of a German crime fiction writer, born as Heinrich Schmitt.

Biography

Arnau was born in Vienna, the son of a hotel manager.

He began his literary career as a newspaper journalist. With the political ascent of Hitler, this avowed opponent of National Socialism emigrated in 1933, first to France, then in 1939 to Brazil, where he lived until 1955. There he was further active as journalist and freelance writer. After his return to Germany he worked as a freelancer for '' Stern'' magazine.

Arnau wrote over a hundred books and was president of the German league for human rights.
He wrote stage plays, novels, detective stories and critical studies about society and the legal system.
In 1934 he described the ascent of the Nazis in his novel ''Die braune Pest'' (The Brown Plague).

In 1959 he published a book about counterfeiting art, entitled ''Kunst der Fälscher – Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit Antiquitäten'' (translated in English as '' The Art of the Faker - 3,000 Years of Deception'').

He died at Munich in 1976.

Works

Crime Fiction

*1929 ''Der geschlossene Ring''
*1933 ''Männer der Tat''
*1944 ''Die Maske mit dem Silberstreifen''
*1953 ''Auch sie kannten Felix Umballer''
*1956 ''Pekari Nr 7''
*1957 ''Tanger nach Mitternacht''
*1957 ''Verwandlung nach Mitternacht''
*1957 ''Mordkommission Hollywood''
*1957 ''Der geschlossene Ring''
*1958 ''Nur tote Zeugen schweigen''
*1958 ''Jenseits aller Schranken''
*1958 ''Heisses Pflaster Rio''
*1958 ''Heißes Pflaster Rio''
*1959 ''Nur tote Zeugen schweigen''
*1959 '' Lautlos wie sein Schatten''
*1960 '' Der perfekte Mord''
*1960 ''Der letzte Besucher''
*1960 ''Das andere Gesicht''
*1961 '' Die Dame im Chinchilla''
*1961 ''Der letzte Besucher''
*1962 ''Heroin AG''
*1962 ''Im Schatten der Sphinx''
*1963 ''Der Mord war ein Regiefehler''
*1963 ''Schuss ohne Echo''
*1963 ''Verwandlung nach Mitternacht''
*1964 ''Der Mord war ein Regiefehler''
*1965 ''Mit heulenden Sirenen''
*1968 ''Das verbrannte Gesicht''
*1984 ''Das verschlossene Zimmer'' (posthumous)

Others

*1934 ''Die braune Pest''
*1959 ''Kunst der Fälscher - Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit Antiquitäten''.
* 1960 ''Brasilia. Phantasie und Wirklichkeit''. Prestel-Verlag, München.
*1962 ''Im Schatten der Sphinx''
*1964 ''Warum Menschen töten''
*1966 ''Jenseits der Gesetze''
*1967 ''Die Straf-Unrechtspflege in der Bundesrepublik''
*1971 ''Tatmotiv Leidenschaft''
*1972 ''Lexikon der Philatelie''
*1972 ''Gelebt, geliebt, gehasst'' (autobiography)
*1974 ''Watergate - Der Sumpf''

Films

*''Täter gesucht'' (1931, based on the novel ''Der geschlossene Ring'')
*''Contest'' (1932)

External links

*
Frank Arnau im Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren, Internet-Edition

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1894 births
1976 deaths
Writers from Vienna
German crime fiction writers
German male journalists
German male novelists
20th-century German novelists
20th-century German male writers
20th-century German journalists