Otto Flake

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Otto Flake (29 October 1880, Metz – 10 November 1963) was a German writer.

Flake was born on 29 October 1880 in Metz. He attended high school in Colmar and studied German philology, philosophy and art history at the University of Strasbourg.^[1]

Flake has an extensive œuvre that includes two volumes of fairy tales that rework traditional folk-tale characters and beliefs.^[2]

Flake was married five times, including to German doctor and socialist Minna Flake,^[3] with whom he had a son, Thomas Flake, who was born in 1908,^[4] and twice to the mother of his daughter, Eva Maria (née Flake in 1921) Seveno.^[3]

He died on 10 November 1963 in Baden-Baden, where he was buried.^[3]

• Works by or about Otto Flake at the Internet Archive
• Newspaper clippings about Otto Flake in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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