He began his professional career as an author for different newspapers and journals which he published under the pen name Hans Land.
It followed numerous novels, among them "Die am Wege sterben" (1889), "Stiefkinder der Gesellschaft" (1889), "Die heilige Ehe" (1893), "Die Richterin" (1893; "Die Tugendhafte" (1895), Der Liebeskäfig" (1925), "Der Fechter von Capua" (1927) and "Kampf um Eva" (1930).