MADER, Friedrich W(ilhelm)

(1866-1947)

   German writer, mainly of juvenile novels, many set in German East Africa and written somewhat in the style of H. Rider HAGGARD. Wunderwelten (1911; trans Max Shachtman as Distant Worlds: The Story of a Voyage to the Planets 1932 US) is a juvenile which takes its SPACESHIP crew to Mars and finally, at several times the speed of light, to Alpha Centauri, where they explore an Eden-like planet. Its content is quiteadvanced for 1911, but it is ill written. Other untranslated works include El Dorado ((1919; vt Auf den Spuren der Inkas), Die letzte Atlantide ("TheLast Atlantis") (1923) and Die Messingstadt ("City of Brass") (1924).

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   See also: GERMANY.