ratsonjulia

no.

should I?

Yesterday one of the local TV channels aired The Treasure of the Sierra Madre... (sigh.. what a film) and there was a bit of a B. Traven's biopic (sp?) after that... so it's rather fresh in my memory (are you a psychic, rats? how did you manage to know that?) They said he was born in Germany, published an anarchist paper, had some official functions when, after the collapse on the German empire, Bavaria briefly adopted institutions inspired by the libertary ideology (the "Republic of the Bavarian Councils")... then he was sentenced to death for that by some Weimar Republic's court, and fled to Mexico, where he settled in Tampico. He used many pseudos, wrote many (mostly crime and aventure) novels, and his true identity remained unknown until he died1969. His true name is said to have been Ret Marut, wich sounds more like a pseudo than most pseudos do, uh?
Now it's up to you! I'm sure you still knew something about this guy, aside him having written The Treasure of the Sierra Madre!