Eduard Breier
Eduard Breier (born November 3, 1811 in Ludbreg near Varaždin , Austrian Empire ; died June 3, 1886 in Gaiwitz , Znojmo district , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.
Life
Eduard Breier joined the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1831 , where he served in the Bombardier Corps of the artillery . After completing his military service, he began writing and in 1837 wrote the story The Serbians for a Prague magazine. In just eleven days in 1840 he wrote the novel Der Fluch des Rabbi ; his story series Old and Young Israel dealt with Jewish community life .
In 1847 he took over the editing of the Prager Zeitung , which he directed in a liberal direction. In 1848 he moved to Vienna and worked on the editorial staff of the Viennese satirical magazine Punch , in which he wrote features , among other things . Also in the Wiener Theater Zeitung of Adolf Bäuerle and in the Morning Post published his novels. As a political writer, he founded the Graden Michel in 1862 , which was later renamed Der Freimütige .
Breier was a pronounced prolific writer, which, however, also aroused harsh criticism. So wrote Robert Prutz in Deutsches Museum , Journal of literature, art and public life (1851-1867):
- “Mr. Breier is a robust narrator, without any claim to poetry or artistic effect, whose entire endeavor is obviously only directed towards filling a certain number of volumes as quickly as possible and with as little effort as possible. [...] The style is impermissibly bad, even if you count a lot on the carelessness of the typesetter, which is, however, great. "
His complete works finally comprised more than 70 volumes, which, however, had no lasting effect.
This criticized spelling brought Johann Nestroy an unexpected honor on October 14, 1842 : the first act of his play He wants to make a joke was given by the angry audience as compensation for the unsuccessful farce The false English, or: The interrupted engagement , written by Eduard Breier and premiered at the Theater an der Wien .
His daughter was the actress Hermine Breier .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Breier, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 128 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Breier, Eduard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 7-15.
Web links
- Biography and list of works on Kulturportal West-Ost
- Biography in the Jewish Encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Michael Kisler (1930–1996): The Theater Mayr. From the Biedermeier diaries of the theater painter Michael Mayr. Edition Roetzer, Vienna / Eisenstadt 1988.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breier, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludbreg near Varaždin , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1886 |
| Place of death | Gaiwitz |