Julius von Voss

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

Work

His rapidity of literary production was almost without a parallel. He published about 160 works (plays, novels, and short stories) and a large number of works remained unpublished.

His best novel is Die Schildbürger (1823), a comical novel about Schildbürger, residents of Schilda, a fictional German town of fools (the text is available at Google Books). He wrote 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 ["Ini: A Novel from the Twenty First Century"] (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)