Josef Winckler (7 July 1881, Bentlage,
Rheine
Rheine () is a city in the district of Steinfurt (district), Steinfurt in Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest city in the district and the location of Rheine Air Base.
Geography
Rheine is on the river Ems (river), Ems, approx. north of Münst ...
– 29 January 1966, Bensberg,
Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district).
Geography
Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river ...
) was a German writer, best known for his 1923 comic novel ''
The Mad Bomberg'', which was turned into films in
1932 and
1957
1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, t ...
. One of his other popular novels was ''Doctor Eisenbart'' (1929), based on the life of
Johann Andreas Eisenbarth
Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (March 27, 1663 – November 11, 1727) was a German surgeon who was a native of Oberviechtach, Bavaria.
Eisenbarth was an oculist and barber-surgeon who specialized in treatment of cataracts, calculus surgery, and the ...
.
[Williams, Parker and Riordan p. 36]
References
Further reading
* Rhys W. Williams, Stephen Parker, Colin Riordan (ed.) ''German Writers and the Cold War 1945–61''. Manchester University Press, 1992.
External links
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1881 births
1966 deaths
People from Rheine
People from the Province of Westphalia
20th-century German novelists
German male novelists
20th-century German male writers
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