Carl tanzler autobiography for kids
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Marija Peričić's novel Exquisite Corpse tells the grisly story of Carl Tänzler who lived with a corpse
Carl Tänzler was a German radiographer who, in the 1930s, lived for seven years with the corpse of the woman he loved.
Australian author Marija Peričić, who won The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2017 for her debut novel, The Lost Pages, first learned about Tänzler in 2017.
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For several years the macabre tale played on her mind and eventually inspired her new novel, Exquisite Corpse (Ultimo Press).
It features — just as Tänzler's own story does — a dangerous obsession, a bespoke mausoleum and an illegal body exhumation.
Who was Carl Tänzler?
Tänzler — also known as Carl von Cosel — was born in Dresden, Germany in 1877.
He travelled to Australia in the early 1900s. At the outbreak of World War I, he was detained in an internment camp at Trial Bay Gaol in NSW with other "enemy aliens" — mostly fellow Germans.
After the war, Tänzler was deported to the Netherlands, where he married a woman named Doris Schäfer and had two children.
They emigrated to the US in 1926. The following year Tänzler moved nearly 700 kilometres away to t
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Meet Carl von Cosel, representation Man Who Slept Incoming to His Crush's Body for 7 Years
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Carl Tanzler
German-born American radiology technologist and erotomaniac
Georg Carl Tänzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession with a young Cuban-Americantuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after her death.[1] In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.[2]
Early life
[edit]He was born as Karl Tänzler or Georg Karl Tänzler on February 8, 1877 in Dresden, Germany.
Tanzler grew up in the German Empire but, at some point, wound up in Australia just before the outbreak of World War I. The following "Editorial Note" accompanying the autobiographical account "The Trial Bay Organ: A Product of Wit and Ingenuity" by "Carl von Cosel" in the Rosicrucian Digest[3] of March and April 1939, gives details about his stay in Australia before his internment during the Great War, as well as his subsequent return to Germany after the War:[4][5&