Tügel, Ludwig
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1889-1972) German author, in active service during both World War One and World War Two; his literary reputation – never high outside Germany, as his standard-issue heroic eloquence about War did not translate as well as that of his brilliant compatriot Ernst Jünger – sank permanently after 1933, when he joined the National-socialist German Workers' Party. He is of moderate sf interest for Der Wiedergänger (1929; trans Norman Gullick as The Visitant 1931), in which a Suicide suffers Identity Transfer into the psyche of a mentally unstable man who now comes to resemble the inner revenant. [JC]
Ludwig Carl Caesar Tügel
born Hamburg, Germany: 6 September 1889
died Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: 25 January 1972
works (highly selected)
- Der Wiedergänger (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Rütten and Loening Verlag, 1929) [binding unknown/]
- The Visitant (London: Martin Secker, 1931) [trans by Norman Gullick of the above: hb/uncredited]
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