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B. Traven
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German novelist
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B. Traven, born Bruno Traven, was a German and Mexican writer, novelist, screenwriter, and entomologist. He was born in Świebodzin and died in Mexico City and Chiapas in 1969. Traven held citizenship in both Germany and Mexico and resided in Munich, where he worked from 1926 to 1968. He spoke and wrote in German and Esperanto.
His notable works include *The Death Ship* and *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. Other listed works are *An das Fräulein von S.....*, *Der Wobbly*, and *Antología de la literatura fantástica*. Traven also used the pseudonyms Robert Bek-gran, Hal Croves, Ret Marut, and Richard Maurhut.
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Film & TV
Schwiebus, Brandenburg, German Empire (today Świebodzin, Polen)
B. Traven (Bruno Traven) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, most likely Hermann Otto Albert Maximilian Feigewhose. However B. Traven's "real" name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute.
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Key facts
- Occupation
- Writer
- Notable works
- The Death Ship The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Jungle Novels
- Children
- Rosa Elena Montés de Oca Luján, María Eugenia Montes de Oca Luján (stepdaughter)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Świebodzin
- Place of death
- Chiapas
- Occupation
- Esperantist
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Image
- B. Traven aka Red Marut arrest photo in London 1923 (front).jpg
- Work location
- Munich
- Residence
- Munich
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- Commons category
- B. Traven
- topic's main category
- Category:B. Traven
- pseudonym
- Otto Wienecke
- name in native language
- Bruno Traven
- date of birth
- 1890-02-23
- date of death
- 1969-03-26
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- end of work period
- 1968-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
B. Traven ( German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.
Life
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