Julius von Voss



Julius von Voss (24 August 1768, Brandenburg an der Havel, Prussia – 1 November 1832 Berlin) was a German author.

Works
His rapidity of literary production was almost without a parallel. His best story is The Schildbürger (The Fooltownite: 1823). He wrote a great many comedies, farces, and satirical parodies. In The Strahlau Haul of Fish (1822, a popular piece with songs, in the Berlin patois) he gives the first example of the Berlinese farce. ''Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert'' (Ini. A novel from the 21st century, 1810) is regarded as the first German science fiction novel.

Publications

 * Geschichte eines bei Jena gefangnen preussischen Offiziers (1807)
 * Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (1810), Reprint with commentary by Ulrich Blode: Oberhaid: Utopica, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938083-11-6
 * Das Grab der Mutter in Palermo, novel (1818)
 * Die Damenhüte im Theater (1820)
 * Der Stralower Fischzug, play (1821)
 * Die sechzehn Ahnen des Grafen von Luftheim, family chronicle (1821)
 * Spanien's Jungfrauen-Tribut an die Mauren, novel (1830)

Related articles

 * German science fiction literature