Artur Landsberger

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Artur Hermann Landsberger (born March 26, 1876 in Berlin ; died October 4, 1933 there ) was one of the most widely read German novelists in his day . He also emerged as a literary and film critic .

Life

Artur Landsberger grew up on Lennéstrasse in the Berlin district of Tiergarten , and graduated from Friedrichswerder high school in 1896 . He studied law in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, Berlin and completed his doctorate in Greifswald in 1908 (naval warfare and neutrality law).

In 1907 he founded the magazine Der Morgen with Richard Strauss and Professors Georg Brandes , Werner Sombart and Richard Muther ; and Hugo von Hofmannsthal was involved. In 1910, Landsberger started the German Monday newspaper together with Siegfried Jacobsohn . His debut as an author, How Hilde Simon Fought God and the Devil (1910), caused quite a stir, so that he devoted himself entirely to writing. Landsberger lost his savings due to the inflation of 1923. His sister Else's husband, Louis-Ferdinand Ullstein , brought him into the editorial offices of his newspapers BZ am Mittag and Vossische Zeitung , for which Landsberger wrote court reports, among other things .

Landsberger came from a Jewish family , but apart from his literary interests, he paid little attention to religion. His first marriage in 1918 to Dolly Pinkus, stepdaughter of the department store owner Wolf Wertheim and daughter of Gertrud Wertheim, was quickly divorced. His mother-in-law wrote gossip novels about Berlin society.

Apparently he had connections to the underworld in Berlin: “One of my uncles,” later writes his nephew Heinz Ullstein, “My mother's brother, the writer Artur Landsberger, has written a number of novels about Berlin society, the quality of which is inversely proportionate to the sensation stood that they caused. The sensation was caused by the fact that Berlin society back then liked to read wickedness about itself. ”- Susanne Leinemann wrote:“ Fraud, scandals, adultery. The author Landsberger didn't have to look far - he himself had triggered a tangible scandal on New Year's Eve 1908 At that time his very young wife Dolly tried to kill herself. Because of lovesickness (it is said that Landsberger had cheated on her), she rushed lightly dressed from the third floor of the Esplanade on Potsdamer Platz, but was caught by a Christmas tree. The marriage to Dolly, the The stepdaughter of the department store owner Wertheim is divorced. And Landsberger has lost his reputation as a bon vivant. " The fact is that in articles about the Berlin ring clubs he played down their racket gangs.

His second wife Clara Jüngst was the daughter of a Protestant pastor from Rügenwalde . In 1922/23 Landsberger converted to Protestantism .

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Cover of Miss Rockefeller is filming

The first novels appeared before the First World War: Lu, die Kokotte (1912), Moral (1912), Millionäres (1913). In addition to novels and reviews, Landsberger also wrote for the theater , e.g. B. the comedy Der Großfürst (1912) or the musical grotesque highness - Franz! (1913). The war probably caused the German tone in hate. The novel by a German-Englishman from 1950 (1915). Landsberger's socially critical tone intensified with Frau Dirne (1919), How Satan died (1919), Das Blut (1920), Elisabeth (1921), Raffke (1924), Villa im Tiergarten (1924).

In response to Hugo Bettauer's publication Stadt ohne Juden (1922), he wrote the novel Berlin without Jews (1925). The dystopian novel was published in the same year as Hitler's Mein Kampf and clairvoyantly anticipated the takeover of power by an anti-Semitic people 's party in Germany and its anti-Jewish legislation . It is designed as a satire on anti-Semitic propaganda .

This was followed by Asians (1926), Bankhaus Reichenbach (1928) and Judicial Murder (1928).

Movie

Between 1914 and 1930, Landsberger was able to sell around 20 scripts for silent and sound films , including Liebestaumel and The Little Stenographer for Vera-Filmwerke . Menschen im Rausch (1920) became a family production, with his nephew Heinz Ullstein in a supporting role and his wife Änne in the female lead.

In 1921 Landsberger ran his own production company, Artur-Landsberger-Film-GmbH . She produced two films: Das Blut and Im Strudel der Großstadt , which Landsberger and Kurt Gerron jointly directed.

death

As a sharp-tongued social critic, Landsberger was persecuted by the National Socialists . Eventually he overdosed on veronal at his desk and died of suicide . In the “Third Reich” his books were no longer allowed to be printed.

It was not until 1998 that the Weidle publishing house brought out a new edition of Berlin without Jews . In 2006 a new edition of Love and Bananas followed .

Works

Books

  • How Hilde Simon fought with God and the devil. The novel by a Berliner. Georg Müller, Munich 1910, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dwiehildesimonmit00landuoft~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  • The Grand Duke. Stagger in 3 lifts. Georg Müller, Munich 1911.
  • Moral. The novel by a Berlin family. Georg Müller, Munich & Leipzig 1911.
  • Lu, the cocotte. Berlin novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.
  • Preface to: Werner Sombart : Judentaufen. Munich 1912.
  • Millionaires. Georg Müller, Munich 1913.
  • Your Highness - Franz! Musical grotesque. Three masks, Munich & Berlin 1913.
  • To the son. Novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1914.
  • Hate. The novel by a German-Englishman from 1950. Georg Müller, Munich & Berlin 1915, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdz-nbn-resolving.de%2Furn%2Fresolver.pl%3Furn%3Durn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Abvb%3A12-bsb11126859-8~GB% 3D ~ IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  • Laugh, Bajazzo. A modern witch's sabbath. Georg Müller, Munich 1916.
  • The princess of the Nile. A game in three acts. Figaro, Berlin around 1916.
  • Devil! Marietta !! Darn stories. Georg Müller, Munich 1916.
  • The new company. Burlesque novel. Brothers Enoch, Hamburg & Leipzig 1917.
  • The brain case. A detective story. Georg Müller, Munich 1918.
  • With fine people. Satires from society. Georg Müller, Munich 1918.
  • Flora Crow. An adventure. Georg Müller, Munich 1918.
  • Berlin novels. 7 vols. Georg Müller, Munich 1918. The collection contains:
    • Vol. 1: To the son.
    • Vol. 2: Lache, Bajazzo. A modern witch's sabbath.
    • Vol. 3: Millionaires.
    • Vol. 4: How Hilde Simon fought with God and the devil.
    • Vol. 5: Morals. The novel by a Berlin family.
    • Vol. 6: Lu, the cocotte.
    • Vol. 7: Devil! Marietta !!
  • How Satan died. Novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.
  • Mrs. Whore. Novel. Borngräber, Berlin 1920.
  • Miss Rockefeller is filming. A film novel. Thespis, Munich 1920.
  • What the night brings me. 14 adventures. Ill. By Victor Arnaud. Thespis, Munich 1920.
  • The blood. Adventurer novel based on an idea by Tilla Durieux . Kurt Ehrlich, Berlin 1921.
  • Elisabeth. A German woman's novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1922.
  • The Schieberprinz. A story from our contemporaries. Beccard, Schwedt a. d. O. 1922.
  • God Satan or the end of Christianity. Barth, Munich 1923.
  • Raffke and Cie. The new company. Ill. By Paul Simmel . Stegemann, Hanover 1924.
  • Villa in the zoo. Georg Müller, Munich 1924.
  • Berlin without Jews. Novel. Steegemann, Hanover 1925, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fsammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de%2Ffreimann%2Furn%2Furn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Ahebis%3A30%3A1-136859~GB%3D~IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  • Asians! A romance novel from two worlds. Leipzig Graphic Works, Leipzig 1925.
  • Emil. An impostor's novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1926.
  • Love and bananas. A wild thing. Novel. New Berlin Publishing Company, Berlin 1927.
  • Reichenbach banking house. Novel. Georg Müller, Munich 1928.
  • Judicial murder? Novel. Seven rods, Berlin 1928.
  • The underworld of Berlin. According to the records of a former convict. With a final consideration by Max Alsberg . Steegemann, Berlin 1929.
  • with Richard Kühn: Woman and Demon. Women's fates and errors from Maria Magdalena to Greta Garbo. Reissner, Dresden 1930.
  • The rich. Burlesque novel. Seven rods, Berlin 1930.
  • Burglary. Criminal grotesque in 3 acts. Three masks, Munich around 1930.
  • Man and judge. Novel. Seven rods, Berlin 1931.
as editor
as translator
  • Sylvester Philipps: The Conqueror of the World. Kurt Ehrlich, Berlin 1922.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Herrmann August Ludwig Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries , 9th edition, Berlin 1928
  • Landsberger, Artur. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 113-131.
  • Herbert Wiesner:  Landsberger, Artur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 515 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Till Barth: From Dandy to Haderer. In: Critical Edition. Journal for German Studies and Literature, No. 1/2005, pp. 78–81. PDF file (913 kB)
  • Werner Fuld: The blind prophet Artur Landsberger , afterword in Artur Landsberger, Berlin without Jews , Weidle-Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-931135-34-9 , pp. 211-216
  • Florian Krobb: Landsberger, Artur. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 324f.

Web links

Wikisource: Artur Landsberger  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Artur Landsberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pem : Homesickness for the Kurfürstendamm , Berlin 1962, p. 46
  2. ↑ Susanne Leinemann: "The press spokesman for organized crime" - Die Welt, September 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors, p. 113
  4. ↑ Werner Fuld, epilogue, p. 216
  5. ↑ Heinz Ullstein: Playground of my life. Memories , Munich 1961, p. 220 f.
  6. ↑ Werner Fuld, p. 215; Till Barth, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Landsberger, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landsberger, Artur Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novel writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1933
Place of death Berlin