Erwin Weill

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Erwin Louis Weill (born November 2, 1885 in Vienna ; died probably after January 9, 1942 in the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Erwin Louis Weill studied at the universities of Zurich and Munich and then worked as a writer. He has published poems, hit texts and dramas for the spoken and musical theater stage. In the 1920s he was best known as a writer of historical novels.

From November 30, 1941, Weill was interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ; from there he was deported to Riga on January 9, 1942, where he was then murdered .

Works

Poetry

  • Days of Sheaves . Poems. Verlag Josef Singer, Strasbourg-Leipzig 1909.
  • The yew hedge . Poems from the gallant times. With three etchings by Paul Walter Stix. Ed. Strache, Vienna 1921.
  • The Marquise's pleasure garden . New Rococo poems. With illustrations after etchings by Rudolf Hannich. Konegen Verlag, Vienna 1926.
  • Rococo poems . Private printing (Kiesel printing company), Salzburg 1936.

prose

  • Miniatures of love . Novella. “Wila” Vienna Literary Institute, Vienna 1920.
  • The dreamers house . Novel. Ed. Strache, Vienna-Prague-Leipzig 1921.
  • Indian flame . Novel. Rikola Verlag, Vienna-Leipzig-Munich 1922.
  • The chinchilla coat . Novel. Deutsch-Oesterreichischer Verlag, Vienna 1923.
  • The palace of a thousand delights . Novel. Schusdek Verlag, Vienna-Leipzig 1924.
  • In a cool ground. The young Eichendorff's novel . Ed. Strache, Vienna 1925.
  • Venetian sun. The novel by the painter Giorgione . Ed. Strache, Vienna-Prague-Leipzig 1926.
  • The eternal feminine . Novellas and dialogues. Steyrermühl Verlag, Vienna 1926. Volume 383/384 from the Tagblatt-Bibliothek series.
  • Alice Rockebilt's trip to Europe . Novel. 1926.
    Alice discovers Europe . New version of the novel. Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin 1930, Glöckner Books No. 81
  • Cue ball . Novel. 1927.
  • Famous robbers. Compiled from authentic sources . With six portraits based on templates from the former imperial Fideikommiss library in Vienna. Steyrermühl Verlag, Vienna 1927.
  • The man of the nights . Novel. 1927.
  • Silent gods . Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Requiem. The novel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . With a foreword by Friedrich Schreyvogl . Bergland Verlag, Graz 1932.
  • Casanova. A picture of life . Bergland Verlag, Graz-Vienna-Leipzig 1933 (Bergland book, special volume 17).
  • Flame from Spain. The novel of Ignatius Loyola . Bergland Verlag, Graz-Vienna-Leipzig 1933 (Bergland book, special volume 8).
  • Schönbrunn - Sanssouci. The novel of the Seven Years' War . Bergland Verlag, Graz-Vienna-Leipzig 1933 (Bergland book, special volume 10).
  • God's bulwark. A Starhemberg novel from the Turkish era . Amonesta Verlag, Vienna 1933.
  • Four women and an emperor . Bergland Verlag, Graz-Vienna-Leipzig 1935 (Bergland book, special volume 26).
  • Crown Prince Rudolf . The life of a strange man . Szelinski & Co., Vienna 1936.

Small texts

  • Greta Garbo . 28 pictures with a biographical sketch by Erwin Weill. Verlag Schwidernoch, Wiener Graphische Kunstanstalt, Vienna 1930 (The film. Monographs, 1st issue).

Others

  • New Years Eve. A summer story . ( Erwin Weill completed this posthumous last work by Paul Busson .) Speidel, Vienna 1927.
  • Foreword to Gerhard Fischer: Half moon around Vienna anno 1683 . Historical novel. Bergland book, Graz 1933.

Stage works

Libretti

  • Big city fairy tale . Operetta in 3 acts by Erwin Weill and Bruno Hardt-Warden . Music: Richard Fall . Brothers Mändl, Vienna-Leipzig 1918, WP 10 January 1920 Vienna ( Carltheater )
  • Adjeu, you beautiful world! A cheerful game in 1 act. Music: Ferdinand Scherber, undated

Song and hit lyrics and other settings

Farewell letter
  • Farewell letter . Song. Music: Camilla Frydan. Mändl, Vienna 1920.
  • Along the way . Song. Music: Arthur Perles. Autograph, undated
  • Out there in the Wachau . Valse Boston. Music: Ernst Arnold , op.37.Brüll, Berlin 1921.
  • The boudoir of the Comtesse de P. Lied. Music: Julius A. Heller. Josef Eberle, Vienna 1910.
  • This is the hour that makes me sad Boston dreary. Music: Béla Laszky. Edition Scala, Vienna 1928.
  • The confession of Queen Marie Antoinette . Melodrama. Music: Max Ast.
  • The Viscountess de Folignar to the Marquis Saint Saaveur . Melodrama. (Speaking voice with piano). Music: Max Ast.
  • The Duke of Richelieu to the Actrice Zephire . Chanson. Music: Karl Bittner, undated
  • Fever . Sound poem for voice and orchestra. Music: Franz Lehár , 1915.
  • The wind blew my song away . Song. Music: Karl Bittner, undated
  • Gwendolyn ...! Song. Music: Camilla Frydan. Orpheus-Verlag Vienna 1925.
  • Comedy of the heart . Song. Music: Louis Roth, autograph, undated
  • Sailor farewell . Song. Music: Richard Maux, op.112, 1920.
  • Moonlight sonata . Song. Music: Louis Roth, autograph, undated
  • Longing . Valse Boston. Music: Ernst Arnold, op. 207, Josef Blaha, Vienna 1926. (Radio hit. Ernst Arnold's works no. 33)
  • Encouragement . Song. Music: Georg Jokl, 1919.

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries. A reference work for the Jewish people and their friends . Volume 6. Chernivtsi. undated (1931)
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1436.

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personal data
SURNAME Weill, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weill, Erwin Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after January 9, 1942
Place of death uncertain: concentration camp Riga-Kaiserwald