 Thereafter he moved to Stuttgart to become a journalist and theatre critic for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", moving to Pasing near Munich in 1914.In 1933 Reck converted to Catholicism, and in 1935 he married Irmgard von Borcke, with whom he had another three daughters.Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Reck was also a novelist, mainly of children's adventure stories.