Paul Eipper

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Paul Eipper (born July 10, 1891 in Stuttgart , † July 22, 1964 in Feldafing ) was a German writer .

Life

Paul Eipper was the son of a master locksmith and blacksmith . He attended the Wilhelms-Oberrealschule in Stuttgart and then completed an apprenticeship as an animal draftsman . He lived as a painter and from 1912 as a bookseller in Munich . After the First World War, Eipper worked in Berlin as the private secretary of the publisher Samuel Fischer , and from 1920 as editor and production manager at the Fritz Gurlitt publishing house. During this time, Eipper's first natural and zoological articles also appeared in magazines. After the great success of his first books, Eipper lived as a freelance writer and cultural filmmaker, first in Berlin, later in Nesselwang in the Allgäu and finally in Lochham (Graefelfing) . He went on numerous study trips to game areas at home and abroad. About his wife Emmy, a sister of Melanie Ehrler, geb. Frommherz, he was related by marriage to the popular writer Hans Heinrich Ehrler who was associated with the homeland movement .

Paul Eipper primarily published narrative animal books. With the volume Animals look at you , published in 1928, he created a new type of animal book, which was characterized by a particularly sensitive description of animals and nature as well as the collaboration with well-known photographers such as Hein Gorny and Hedda Walther . Eipper's works reached a total circulation of almost two million copies and have been translated into several languages; 300,000 copies of his most successful work The Yellow Great Dane Senta alone were sold. From 1926 on, Eipper also made contributions to radio , especially school radio programs , and later also to television . He produced animal films, such as the 1930 film Animals See You .

Honors

Fonts

  • Animals look at you , Berlin 1928
  • with Hedda Walther: Menschenkinder , Berlin 1929
  • with Hedda Walther: Tierkinder , Berlin 1929
  • Circus , Berlin 1930
  • with Hedda Walther: friendship with cats , Berlin 1931
  • The night of the Vogelsangs , Berlin 1931
  • Your forest , Berlin 1932
  • With the circus in Sweden , Berlin 1932
  • Love for animals , Berlin 1933
  • Splendid summer in the German forest , Berlin 1933
  • The animal lover travels ... , Berlin 1934
  • The yellow mastiff Senta , Berlin 1936
  • The pet book , Berlin 1938
  • View into my world , Berlin 1939
  • Zodiac of love , Berlin 1943
  • Nature is inexhaustibly rich , Berlin 1949
  • Paul Eipper tells ... , Munich 1950
  • Pan calls you , Munich 1951
  • Elephants, dinosaurs and black cats , Munich 1951
  • A little look into my world , Munich 1953
  • You beautiful forest , Munich 1954
  • Joy of living nature , Bielefeld [u. a.] 1954
  • Dialogue with animals , Munich 1957
  • One hundred days in the Rocky Mountains , Munich 1958
  • The forged rose , Munich 1961
  • The most beautiful animal stories , Munich 1963
  • Reunion with my animals , Munich 1966
  • Studio talks with Liebermann and Corinth , Munich 1971

Movies

  • Joy comes from the animal . Direction and production
  • Great apes . 1937 As a producer
  • Animals look at you . Direction and production 1943/1944.

Editing

  • Animals around us , Berlin 1930

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Petrasch: The Vienna Urania. From the roots of adult education to lifelong learning. Böhlau, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-205-77562-7 , p. 166.
  2. ↑ Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kuerschner's German Literature Calendar. de Gruyter, Berlin 1963, p. 139 ( snippet view ).
personal data
SURNAME Eipper, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1964
Place of death Munich