Gobsch, Hanns

Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1883-1957) German author of some prominence during the Weimar Period; his Future War novel, Wahn-Europa 1934: Eine Vision (1931; trans Ian Fitzherbert Despard Morrow as Death Rattle 1932), depicts from a pacifist leftwing standpoint a Europe descending deliriously into Near Future chaos after France and Italy invade each other; with Russian armies soon invading Poland, a version of World War Two begins almost immediately. The novel was widely translated. [JC]

Hanns Gobsch

born 1883

died 1957

works

• Wahn-Europa 1934: Eine Vision (Hamburg, Germany: Fackelreiter Verlag, 1931) [hb/H Jansen]
  • Death Rattle (London: Faber and Faber, 1932) [trans by Ian Fitzherbert Despard Morrow of the above: hb/]

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