Corbach was born in Herscheid and moved to Qingdao in 1900, at that time the administrative centre of the Kiautschou Bay concession.
He started editing the paper Deutsch-Asiatische Warte (German-Asian Viewpoint).
[1] He worked as an editor first in Kassel and then in Wroclaw before moving to Berlin.
[1] Corbach was a friend of Franz Pfemfert and shared his readiness to use the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche to criticise Wilhelminian Germany.
[2] He was a regular contributor to Pfemfert's Die Aktion.