Hans Wollschläger

[2] He also translated the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (together with Arno Schmidt), and novels by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

He was vice chairman of the Karl-May-Gesellschaft (Karl May society) and was one of the editors of the historical critical edition of this author.

He wrote several books of fiction and non-fiction, including a history of the Crusades which has a polemical aspect (at the close of the book he suggests the Catholic Church be declared a criminal organisation, and Pope Urban II as a mass murderer)[3] but also contains excerpts from several Arabic sources never previously translated into German.

He also worked on a performing edition of the draft of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, which he never completed.

However, under the influence of Erwin Ratz, Wollschläger came to the conclusion that an unfinished masterwork should not be touched, and publicly withdrew his edition in 1962.