Alfred Klaar

Alfred Klaar.

Alfred Klaar (born November 7, 1848 in Prague , Austrian Empire ; died November 4, 1927 in Berlin ; original name Aaron Karpeles ) was an Austrian literary historian , journalist and writer .

Life

Alfred Klaar came from a Jewish family; he was baptized a Catholic in 1887. In Prague he became a “literary pope” over the years, but is almost forgotten today. With his "objective criticism" he was an opponent of Alfred Kerr .

From 1868 to 1872 he was editor of the daily messenger from Bohemia , since 1873 theater and art critic of Prague's Bohemia , since 1885 also lecturer in literary history at the German Technical University in Prague and professor there since 1898 (he had received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1886).

In 1899 he moved to Berlin, where he was head of the features section of the Berliner Neuesten Nachrichten , from 1901 to 1912 he was a theater advisor at the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin, and at times also head of the feature section there. He was also a lecturer at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and employee of the Neue Freie Presse . He was chairman of the Association of Berlin Theater Critics, which was founded in December 1913.

Alfred Klaar was married to the actress Paula Eberty for the second time .

Fonts (selection)

Alfred Klaar with his second wife Paula Eberty and his son, 1906. Photo by R. Siegert.

The traveling comedians. Joke game . Prague 1876.
The modern drama, presented in its directions and main representatives . 3 volumes. Prague and Leipzig 1883–1884.
The reception. Historical festival . Dresden 1888.
Discretion . Comedy. Berlin 1890.
Whoever complains, buys . Comedy. Berlin 1891.
Acting and Society . 1902.
We and humanity . 1902.
Grillparzer . 1903.
Uriel Acosta. Life and Confessions of a Freethinker . 1909.
Acting and Society . 1910.
Problems of modern drama . 1921.
Ludwig Fulda . 1922.
Spinoza 1926.
He was also the editor of Franz Grillparzer's collected works

literature

Renate Heuer : Klaar, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 696 f. ( Digitized version ).
Klaar, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 74-81.
Klaar, Alfred , in: Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century , 2002, p. 679, entry # 5163

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Klaar in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ See Berliner Tageblatt , vol. 43, no. 649 of December 22, 1914, p. 2 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Klaar, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karpeles, Aaron (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 1927
Place of death	Berlin

[1] See Berliner Tageblatt , vol. 43, no. 649 of December 22, 1914, p. 2 ( digitized version )