Gobsch, Hanns
Entry updated 28 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
Working name of German author Franz Johannes Gobsch (1883-1957), in active service during World War One, 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]
Franz Johannes Gobsch
born Chemnitz, Germany: 1 August 1883
died Murnau, Germany: 3 December 1957
works
- Wahn-Europa 1934: Eine Vision ["Mad Europe: A Vision"] (Hamburg, Germany: Fackelreiter Verlag, 1931) [hb/H Jansen]
- Death Rattle (London: Faber and Faber/Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1932) [no precedence established between UK and US editions: trans by Ian Fitzherbert Despard Morrow of the above: hb/]
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