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Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889-August 19, 1980) was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam. The following first two audio clips are in English; the third is in Dutch.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

Als dritter Spross des Unternehmers Werner Otto, dem milliardenschweren Gründer des Otto-Versands, zeigt sich Frank Otto früh als trotziger und eigensinniger Charakter. Er fliegt mehrfach von Internaten, folgt nicht dem ihm vorgezeichneten Weg, sondern sucht sein Glück in der Welt der Künste, lebt in WGs und demonstriert gegen Aufrüstung wie Atomkraft. Seinen Platz findet er durch einen Zufall: Er übernimmt ein Hamburger Privatradio und führt es überraschend zum Erfolg.