caption death_date death_place birth_place citizenship nationality notableworks birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
b. in london , in 1923 traven aka ret marut arrest photo , taken 26 march 1969 mexico city , mexico schwiebus , brandenburg , german empire ? mexico ? -lrb- from 1951 ? -rrb- before this u.s german '' the sierra madre '' the jungle novels the death ship '' '' the treasure of 23 february 1882 rosa elena luján -lrb- 1957 -- 1969 -rrb- ? b. 1923.jpg traven aka red marut arrest photo in london b. traven
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b. traven

b. traven was the pen name of a presumably german novelist , whose real name , nationality , date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute .
one of the few certainties about traven 's life is that he lived for years in mexico , where the majority of his fiction is also set -- including `` the treasure of the sierra madre '' -lrb- 1927 -rrb- , which was adapted for the academy award winning film of the same name in 1948 .
virtually every detail of traven 's life has been disputed and hotly debated .
there were many hypotheses on the true identity of b. traven , some of them wildly fantastic .
most agree that traven was ret marut , a german stage actor and anarchist , who supposedly left europe for mexico around 1924 .
there are also reasons -lrb- see below -rrb- to believe that marut/traven 's real name was otto feige and that he was born in schwiebus in brandenburg , modern day Świebodzin in poland .
b. traven in mexico is also connected with berick traven torsvan and hal croves , both of whom appeared and acted in different periods of the writer 's life .
both , however , denied being traven and claimed that they were his literary agents only , representing him in contacts with his publishers .
b. traven is the author of twelve novels , one book of reportage and several short stories , in which the sensational and adventure subjects combine with a critical attitude towards capitalism , reflecting the socialist and anarchist sympathies of the writer .
b. traven 's best known works include the novels `` the death ship '' from 1926 , `` the treasure of the sierra madre '' from 1927 -lrb- filmed in 1948 by john huston -rrb- , and the so-called `` jungle novels , '' also known as the `` caoba cyclus '' -lrb- from the spanish word `` caoba '' , meaning mahogany -rrb- .
the jungle novels are a group of six novels -lrb- including `` the carreta '' and `` government '' -rrb- , published in the years 1930 -- 1939 and set among mexican indians just before and during the mexican revolution in the early 20th century .
b. traven 's novels and short stories became very popular as early as the interwar period and retained this popularity after the second world war ; they were also translated into many languages .
most of b. traven 's books were published in german first and their english editions appeared later ; nevertheless the author always claimed that the english versions were the original ones and that the german versions were only their translations .
this claim is not taken seriously .
