Keeping Records Straight
This web site was designed not only to try and keep up with the wealth of misinformation about Essad Bey’s (Kurban Said’s) life and work, but also to point out valuable material. When it comes to Essad Bey we find a flabbergasting amount of errors and poor quotation moral – not to mention slander and… Continue Reading →
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In 2008, I published Essad Bey’s two pulp novels “Love and Petroleum” and “Manuela” in their translation from Polish. Back then it was still unknown what had happened to the original German manuscripts – or whether these novels had ever been published in German. I was able to obtain photocopies of the… Continue Reading →
Fehlerliste zur deutschen Ausgabe von Der Orientalist mit Hinweisen auf die engl. Ausgabe Stand: 22. April 2014 Errata, die ich über die Jahre fand: „Dangerous Life“ (im Untertitel)– klingt merkwürdig … ist vielleicht „Endangered Life“ gemeint? Diskrepanz bei der Nummerierung von Umar Ehrenfels’ Ehefrauen: Seite X: hier ist Elfriede die „zweite Frau von Leelas Vater“… Continue Reading →
Im Jahr 2008 veröffentlichte ich Essad Beys beiden Romane „Liebe und Erdöl“ sowie „Manuela“ in ihrer Übersetzung aus dem Polnischen. Bis dato war unbekannt gewesen, was mit den deutschen Originalmanuskripten geschehen war bzw. ob diese Romane je auf Deutsch veröffentlich worden waren. Fotokopien der polnischen Hefte konnte ich mir 2007 im Zentrum… Continue Reading →
(Leider funktionieren auf WordPress keine Fußnoten. Diese werden daher in Normalgröße angezeigt.) Essad Beys Heftromane Manuela und Liebe und Erdöl Eine überraschende Entdeckung1 von Hans-Jürgen Maurer Als 1934 in dem polnischen Verlag Republika in Łodz die beiden Heftromane von Essad Bey erschienen, hatte dieser bereits eine beachtliche Zahl an Publikationen vorzuweisen. Zwischen 1926, (d.h…. Continue Reading →
Essad Bey’s Novellas Manuela and Love and Petroleum A Surprising Discovery1 By Hans-Jürgen Maurer (Please note, WordPress doesn’t allow footnotes. Please bear them in normal size.) By 1934, when the Polish publisher Republika in Łodz released Essad Bey’s two pulp novels, he had already produced a notable number of texts. Between 1926 (aged 21) and… Continue Reading →
Ali & Nino The Business of Literature Who wrote Azerbaijan’s most famous Novel? in “Azerbaijan International” 2011 A Review by Hans-Jürgen Maurer Foreword In September 2011 the notable British Newspaper, The Guardian, published an article with the headline “The vanishing fascination of truly anonymous authors”. In it the author Daniel Kalder gives a brief… Continue Reading →
Literary Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism published by the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre, 2016 ISBN 978-9952-28-342-2 Receiving this little volume left me quite surprised. As the table of content shows, this book features 78 (!) different Azerbaijani authors – and Kurban Said is one of them. The short excerpts presented in the Ali & Nino… Continue Reading →
Approaches to Kurban Said’s ‘Ali and Nino’ Edited by Carl Niekerk and Cori Crane ISBN 978-1-57113-990-0 Camden House, Rochester, NY, USA Finally I received the long-awaited book! First I had had the chance to read parts of a chapter online on Google Books, so I knew the book wouldn’t disappoint me. In fact,… Continue Reading →
Under the link given at the bottom you can find an example of a copied-from-a-copier-from-a-copier article. This time under the guise of “academic expertise”. We contacted the author, Adrienne Landry, twice. Once by e-mail and once by registered letter to the university. To no avail. See our “slight” hints for correction above. We are sure… Continue Reading →
Berlin film maker Mr. Ralf Marschalleck, foremost Essad Bey researcher and expert, has released his almost two-hour-long documentary “Die Schmerzen des Essad Bey” – or, in English, “The Agony of Essad Bey”. Go here for watching the trailer: In German: http://www.essadbey-derfilm.de In English: http://www.essadbey-thefilm.com (You can order the DVD from those links as well!) This… Continue Reading →
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