Rolf Recknagel

Rolf Recknagel was a German literary scholar. 

He studied in Jena and Leipzig. From 1954 he was a lecturer in contemporary foreign literature at the technical school for librarians in Leipzig. In 1973 he received his doctorate.

Recknagel became known above all for being able to identify the Munich author, actor, council revolutionary and editor and sole author of the magazine Der Ziegelbrenner (1917–1921) “Ret Marut” on the basis of stylistic comparisons in B. Traven. Recknagel also published biographies on Jack London and Oskar Maria Graf.

In 1970 Recknagel was awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize by the Ministry of Culture of the GDR and in 1978 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze .

The singer-songwriter Gerulf Pannach was his son-in-law.