Roderich Menzel

Roderich Menzel ( born April 13, 1907 in Reichenberg, † October 18, 1987 in Munich) was a Czech and German tennis player who was active as a writer later. As an author he used next to his name pseudonyms Clemens Parma and Michael Morawa.

Life and work

Growing up in the Sudetenland Menzel played first for Czechoslovakia, after the "Anschluss " of the Sudetenland to the German Reich in October 1938 for Germany in the Davis Cup.

In 1931 he won the international German Tennis Championships at the Hamburger Rothbaum. In 1936, he was counted among the four best tennis players in the world. In 1938, he lost the final of the French Tennis Championships Don Budge.

After the Second World War Menzel worked as a writer in Munich and published under his own name and under the pseudonym Clemens Parma. The catalog of the German National Library recorded for him 156 titles, several of which have been translated into foreign languages. He wrote in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century children 's literature, which illustrated the illustrator Johanna Sengler. The most famous book of which is " The Wonder Car ". He also wrote biographies of Friederike von Hannover and Max Reinhardt.

Roderich Menzel had five children (Michael, Christian, Renate, Carola and Peter ).

Tennis success

  • Wimbledon 1933 - Quarter-finals
  • 1935 - Quarter-finals
  • 1937 - semi-final double

World ranking placement

Works

  • Tennis ... as I see it!, Heidelberg [ua ] 1932
  • Tennis Parade, Heidelberg 1937
  • Between man and God, Heidelberg1937
  • Beloved tennis partner, Hamburg 1940
  • Unbelievable but true! , Berlin 1940
  • With bat and typewriter, Heidelberg 1941
  • A man reborn, Berlin 1942
  • 24 hours, Berlin 1942
  • Songs and ballads, Hamburg 1948
  • Triumph of Medicine, Hamburg 1950
  • Flying Fish and tender kangaroo, Munich 1951
  • World Power Tennis, Munich 1951
  • Adventure, mystery and great ride, Hamburg 1952
  • Song edge of the fountain, Heidelberg 1953
  • Men who fight the cancer, Bad Wörishofen 1953
  • German tennis, Graefelfing in Munich 1 (1955)
  • 2nd anniversary book of the German Tennis 1961
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