Dolerich Whatnow?

June 21, 2009 9:04 AM

A little help with an anagram from a novel?

I have just finished reading Walter Moers' 'The City of Dreaming Books,' and part of the fun of reading it was figuring out anagrams given for famous authors' names.

Rasco Elwid - Oscar Wilde
Perla la Gadeon - Edgar Allan Poe
etc

But one name stumped me: Dolreich Hirnfiedler. Within the book, he is infamous for starting every other poem with the word "O!"

Please help, it's really bugging me!

posted by palindromic to media & arts (6 comments total)

Friedrich Hoelderlin
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:12 AM on June 21

Friedrich Hölderlin.
posted by suedehead at 9:13 AM on June 21

Aaah! One minute too late!
posted by suedehead at 9:13 AM on June 21

Thanks! I would never have got that on my own.
posted by palindromic at 9:16 AM on June 21

I would never have got that on my own.

cough google 'anagram solver real names' cough (much apologies to suedehead)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:22 AM on June 21

Mostly, I have just never heard of the guy, but useful for the future - thanks again.
posted by palindromic at 10:10 AM on June 22