Constantin Christomanos

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Constantin Christomanos

Konstantin Anastasios Christomanos Manno , Greek Κωνσταντίνος Χρηστομάνος (born August 1, 1867 in Athens ; † November 14, 1911 ibid) was a Greek historian, playwright and theater director. He became famous as a Greek teacher and reader to Empress Elisabeth . He was also, together with Felix Rappaport , editor of the Wiener Rundschau .

Life

His father was the chemist Anastasios Christomanos , his brother the physician Antonis C. (born October 16, 1870 in Athens, died April 24, 1933 ibid.), His cousin the tourism pioneer Theodor Christomannos .

An accident in his early years resulted in a permanent hump, a physical deformation that stressed him all his life. In 1888 he moved to Vienna with his brother to study philosophy, where he obtained his dissertation in Innsbruck in 1891 .

From 1891 to 1894 he was a reader, Greek teacher and companion of Empress Elisabeth. He was mediated by the chief steward Franz Nopcsa . At the end of March 1894, after four years, she must have grown tired of him. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and was appointed lecturer for Greek at the University of Vienna . On December 20, 1898, his work Diary Leaves was published , in which he recorded his memories as a reader and Greek teacher of the Empress who had been murdered two months earlier. This book is the only one that has been reprinted to the present day.

As a result of criticism of the publication of the diary sheets, he moved back to Athens in 1899. Here he founded a progressive theater in 1901, the New Stage , which wanted to revive the ancient Greek theater practice and performed plays by Ibsen , Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and others. In 1906 he quit because the stage was no longer financially viable and from then on lived as a freelance writer.

In 1909 it was painted by Oskar Kokoschka in Vienna .

He died of a problem with the heart and was buried in Athens.

Fonts

  • Konstantin Christomanos: diary sheets. I. episode. May 1891 – April 1892. Moritz Perles, Vienna 1898. online new edition Czernin Verlag , Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-7076-0178-1 .
  • Constantin Christomanos: The gray woman. [One act.] Vienna: Konegen 1898. online
  • Constantin Christomanos: Orphic songs. Vienna: Konegen 1898.
  • Constantin Christomanos: Occidental sexes in the Orient following Du Cange's “Familles d'Outre-Mer”. 1. Delivery. Vienna: Gerold 1889.
  • Dr. Constantin Christomanos: The Achilles Castle on Corfu. Vienna: Gerold 1896. online

Newspaper articles

  • C. Christomanos: From the Achilles Castle on Corfu. In: Neue Freie Presse , October 3, 1894, pp. 1–3. on-line
  • C. Christomanos: Algiers. In: Neue Freie Presse , December 24, 1894, pp. 1–4. on-line
  • C. Christomanos: Druze and Maronites. In: Neue Freie Presse , December 20 and 21, 1895, pp. 1–3 respectively. online and online
  • C. Christomanos: The Olympic Games in Athens. In: Neue Freie Presse , February 12, 1896, pp. 1–3. on-line
  • C. Christomanos: The uprising in Crete. Special report. In: Neue Freie Presse , August 26, 1896, pp. 1–3. on-line

Secondary literature

  • Anagnostou, Myrto: Constantin Christomanos and the New Stage in Athens . Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1962.
  • Haderer, Stefan: The poet and the empress. Wiener Zeitung, June 13, 2020 online
  • Puchner, Walter: Konstantinos Christomanos and the theater des fin de siècle in Austria and Greece. In: Contributions to theater studies in Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean region . Vol. 1 (2006), pp. 307-318.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the diary sheets, 2012 edition, p. 27, August 13 is given as his birthday.
  2. ↑ Daily news: The longtime reader of Empress Elisabeth died. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , November 16, 1911, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / svb
  3. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Innsbrucker Nachrichten, 1891-12-02, page 1. Retrieved on May 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1894-03-22, page 21. Retrieved on May 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1898-12-20, page 5. Accessed on May 6, 2017 .
  6. ^ Oskar Kokoschka, works on paper: the early years, 1897-1917: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 10-August 24, 1994. Accessed May 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ Publishing house website
personal data
SURNAME Christomanos, Constantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christomanos, Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek historian, poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1911
Place of death Athens