Carl Caro

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Carl Caro around 1882

Carl Otto Caro (born July 18, 1850 in Breslau ; † September 4, 1884 in Pötzleinsdorf near Vienna ) was a German poet and playwright.

Life

Caro was born in Breslau as the son of Kommerzienrat Robert Caro (1819–1875) from a Prussian family who were Jewish-Sephardic . His brothers were the industrialists Georg von Caro (1849–1913) and Oscar Caro (1852–1931) and the composer Paul Caro (1859–1914). After attending the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, he studied law in Heidelberg , Strasbourg and Breslau from 1870 to 1873 . He was a member of the Corps Borussia Breslau (1870) and founder of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg (1872).

Carl Caro enjoyed great popularity among the Strasbourg student body and as a result headed almost all of the student celebrations at the new university. At a great general Kommers he sent Prince Bismarck a telegram from the students of the new German university and was immediately able to announce the Reich Chancellor's delighted reply.

After graduation and doctorate as Dr. iur. he was temporarily employed at the City Court in Breslau and at the Imperial Regional Court in Strasbourg . In 1876 he resigned from the judicial service and turned to poetry - financially independent due to his father's flourishing iron trading business - and wrote several tragedies and comedies in addition to lyrical works. In 1877 he settled in Vienna. In December 1878, his Schwank was successfully performed in three acts: "At German University", also showing a bang , in the Wroclaw City Theater with the participation of many Corps students - active and old men - as a charity performance by the "Christmas Support Committee". Caro achieved his artistic breakthrough with the one-act comedy Die Burgruine , which was awarded first prize in a competition organized by the Prague Concordia . The Vienna Burgtheater added it to its repertoire a little later. The tragedy Am Herzogshof was also accepted for performance by the Vienna Burgtheater in autumn 1883.

In December of the same year Caro was diagnosed with a tumor on a kidney. On March 21, 1884, Theodor Billroth completely removed this kidney from the then 34-year-old theater poet and lyric poet in Vienna, a difficult operation that succeeded, unfortunately without final success, as the disease recurred. Carl Caro passed away on September 4, 1884.

Works

  • Conradine , Tragedy (1876)
  • Gudrun , play in five acts (1877)
  • At a German university , comedy in three acts (1877)
  • On lonely heights , novella in verse (1878)
  • Theodoric's daughter , tragedy in five acts (1880)
  • A reunion , comedy (1880)
  • The honeymoon to Heidelberg , comedy in one act (1880)
  • In the summer night , novella in verse (1880)
  • The castle ruins , comedy in one elevator (1882, in print 1883)
  • Poems (1883)
  • Am Herzogshof , analytical tragedy in two sections (1884 posthumously, published in print 1885, with a foreword by Erich Schmidt )

literature

  • Foreword by Erich Schmidt . In: Carl Caro: At the Herzogshof. Tragedy in two departments , Vienna 1885.
  • Wilhelm Kosch, Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 2, 3rd edition, Bern / Munich 1969, p. 492.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Bonnenberg , Hermann Sternagel-Haase, Alfred Methner, Georg Lustig: History of the Corps Borussia zu Breslau, The first 100 years 1819-1919, Second revised and expanded edition , Aachen / Cologne 1984
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 18/533; 102/2
  3. ^ Heinrich Bonnenberg , Hermann Sternagel-Haase, Alfred Methner, Georg Lustig: History of the Corps Borussia zu Breslau, The first 100 years 1819-1919, Second revised and expanded edition , Aachen / Cologne 1984
  4. ^ Heinrich Bonnenberg , Hermann Sternagel-Haase, Alfred Methner, Georg Lustig: History of the Corps Borussia zu Breslau, The first 100 years 1819-1919, Second revised and expanded edition , Aachen / Cologne 1984, page 261
  5. ↑ Obituary. In: Provinzial-Zeitung , Breslau, September 6, 1884
personal data
SURNAME Caro, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caro, Carl Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and stage poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1884
Place of death Pötzleinsdorf near Vienna