Armin Gimmerthal

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Armin Gimmerthal (born July 29, 1858 in Plaue , † February 19, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German writer .

Life

Born the son of a pharmacist, he became a private tutor in Apolda after attending secondary school . He studied mathematics in Jena and Berlin . During his studies from 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . He had to give up his studies in 1881 for economic reasons and went to Vienna to become an actor . However, his plans were thwarted by the ring theater fire and its consequences. In 1883 he worked as a private tutor in Hamburg. He founded a printing company there , which he sold in 1897. Then he lived in Hamburg as a writer. He wrote plays , some of which remained unprinted. In 1907 he moved to Bad Neuenahr , where his wife came from. In 1930 he moved to Bonn. He was buried in Bad Neuenahr.

Publications (selection)

  • dramatically edited: The treasure of rhampsinite. An ancient Egyptian fairy tale. Hamburg 1894.
  • Tapping songs. Hamburg 1895.
  • Johann von Gorze. Based on a report from the time of Emperor Otto the Great. Play. Hamburg 1898.
  • Behind the mask. Suderman and Hauptmann in the dramas Johannes, The Three Deer Feathers, Schluck and Jau. Berlin 1901. ( Online )
  • Aschenbach's. Play in four acts. Berlin 1903. First performed in 1903 at the new free Volksbühne Berlin .
  • Ramzarit. Berlin 1904. First performance in 1904 at the Royal State Theater in Dresden .
  • The painting school. 1906.
  • The errors and fallacies in Einstein's theory of relativity. Langendreer 1926.
  • The relativity principle of classical mechanics and its forgery by Einstein. In: Hundred authors against Einstein . 1931. ( online )

literature

  • Gimmerthal, Armin : In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 2. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 371.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 249.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.literaturland-thueringen.de/orte/plaue/

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personal data
SURNAME Gimmerthal, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Plaue
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1941
Place of death Bonn