Arthur Mennell

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Cover illustration for Buchholtzens in Switzerland

Arthur Mennell (born October 2, 1855 in Weißenfels , † April 1, 1941 in Greifenberg ) was a German bookseller, writer, painter and photographer.

Life

Mennell stayed in Paris in 1885 and lived in Leipzig from 1888. He was an admirer of Bismarck and produced several Bismarck publications with his own photos. He was successful with his imitations of the Buchholz books Julius Stindes . He gained a certain prominence through the book by Lothar Machtan : Bismarck's Death and Germany's Tears , in which Mennell's writings are described as "chatty gossip literature" and "investigative journalism".

Cover illustration for Arthur Mennell's Buchholtzens in Paris

Fonts

  • Parisian air . Unflad, Leipzig 1885
  • Buchholtzens in Paris . Curious travel experiences of a Berlin family in the French capital. 1st - 14th edition Unflad, Leipzig 1885
  • Buchholtzens in Switzerland . Curious travel experiences of a Berlin family. Unflad, Leipzig 1886
  • Buchholz and Knebbchen at the skat congress. 1st - 18th ed. Unflad, Leipzig 1887
  • At noon with the Kaiser in his last days of life . Publishing house of the Litterarian Association, Leipzig 1888
  • The royal fantasies. A hike to the castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . Publishing house of the Literary Society, Leipzig, 1888–1890
  • Golden Chronicle of the Wettins . Edited by Arthur Mennell. Publishing house of the Literary Society, Leipzig 1889
  • Bismarck pictures from the Sachsenwalde . Publishing house of the Literary Society, Leipzig 1892.
  • Bismarck monument for the German people . Started by Arthur Mennell (pp. 1–105). Continued by Bruno Garlepp. 2 volumes. Weller, Berlin 1895–1898

literature

Lothar Machtan: Bismarck's Death and Germany's Tears . Report of a tragedy. Goldmann, Munich 1998, pp. 153–160 (with a portrait of Mennell)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's Literature Calendar 1897, p. 863
  2. ^ Kosch: Deutsches Literatur Lexikon , Volume 10 (Lucius - Myss), p. 842
  3. ↑ Lothar Machtan: Bismarck's death and Germany's tears . Report of a tragedy. Goldmann, Munich 1998, p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Mennell, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, writer, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1941
Place of death Greifenberg