SHORT STORIES

In 1928, Büchergilde Gutenberg published B. Traven’s first collection of twelve short stories asDer Busch (other than Blaugetupfe Sperling – Blue-speckled sparrow –, which appeared as anonymous in 1919).

First edition: 12 stories included.

    • Awakening the Dead (Die Auferweckung eines Toten)
    • Indian Dance in the Jungle (Indianertanz in der Dschungel)
    • The Birth of a God  also called A New God was Born (Die Geburt eines Gottes)
    • The Story of a Bomb, also called Tin Can or Playing with Bombs (Die Geschichte einer Bombe)
    • The Dynamite Cartridge (Die Dynamitpatrone)
    • The Social Institution (Die Wohlfahrtseinrichtung)
    • The Sentry (Der Wachtposten)
    • Family Honour (Familienehre)
    • The Donkey’s Purchase (Der Eselskauf)
    • A Dog’s Business, also called Local Arithmetic ( Ein Hundegeschäft)
    • Medicine (Die Medizin)
    • The Night Visitor (Der Nachtbesuch im Busch)

In 1930, a new edition with eight additional stories was published.

Second edition:  Bûchergilde Gutenberg, 20 stories included.

    • Awakening the Dead (Die Auferweckung eines Toten)
    • Indian Dance in the Jungle (Indianertanz in der Dschungel)
    • A New God was Born (Die Geburt eines Gottes)
    • The Caught Lightning (Der aufgefangene Blitz)
    • Accomplices (Spießgesellen)
    • The Story of a Bomb, also called Tin Can or Playing with Bombs (Die Geschichte einer Bombe)
    • The Dynamite Cartridge (Die Dynamitpatrone)
    • The Social Institution (Die Wohlfahrtseinrichtung)
    • The Sentry (Der Wachtposten)
    • The Kidnapped Saint, also called The Emigrated Antonio (Der ausgewanderte Antonio)
    • Family Honour  (Familienehre)
    • A Dog’s Business, also called Local Arithmetic (Ein Hundegeschäft)
    • The Donkey’s Purchase  (Der Eselskauf)
    • The Diplomat (Diplomaten)
    • Control (Bändigung)
    • Assembly Line (Der Grossindustrielle)
    • Medicine (Die Medizin)
    • The Bandit Doctor (Der Banditendoktor)
    • The Conversion of the Indians (Indianerbekehrung)
    • The Night Visitor (Der Nachtbesuch im Busch)

Later, American magazines and other periodicals reproduced some of Traven’s stories, many of which were revised versions of the stories that originally appeared in Der Busch, many others were new.

Beginning in the 1940s Traven’s short stories have been published within different anthologies and collections, including text books, around the world in many languages.

SHORT STORIES

under the name B. Traven

  • An Unexpected Solution
  • Cart Wheel
  • Cattle Drive (taken from The Cotton Pickers)
  • Ceremony Slightly Delayed
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • Friendship
  • Frustration
  • Midnight Call
  • Submission
  • Sun Creation, also called The Creation of the Sun and the Moon
  • The Third Guest
  • When the Priest is not at Home

SHORT STORIES

 under the name Ret Marut (1912 to 1919)

  • In the Freest  State in the World
  • To the Honorable Miss S
  • The Story of a Nun
  • The Silk Scarf
  • The Actor and the King
  • A Writer of Serpentine Shrewdness
  • The Blue-Speckeled Sparrow
  • Originality
  • Deceivers
  • My Visit to the Writer PGUWKLSCHRJ RNFAJBZXLQUY
  • The Art of the Painter
  • The Kind of things that can happen in France
  • Mother Beleke
  • The Unknown Soldier
  • In the Fog
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