In a short story by this author, a merchant’s fianceé criticizes him for having a friend with a failing business in St. Petersburg who won’t attend their wedding. In that story by this author, after his father lambasts his upcoming marriage to Frieda Brandenfeld and accuses him of wanting him dead, a possible stand-in for this author jumps off a bridge. In another story by this author, an inscription on a covertly low gravestone vows that a man with nameless supporters will (*) rise from the dead. This creator of Georg Bendemann described (10[1])a soldier competing to lick rice pudding with a man strapped to the Harrow. In that story by this author, an officer who follows the old commandant straps himself into a machine that etches “Be Just” on his back. For 10 points, name this author of “The Judgement” and “In the Penal Colony.” ■END■