Eugene Zabel

Friedrich Haase and Eugen Zabel (right), signed by CW Allers , 1887

Eugen Zabel (born December 23, 1851 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † February 26, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer , playwright and translator .

Zabel became known as a travel writer, for example with his work Trans-Siberia (1903). In addition to Asia, he also traveled to America and Australia. He translated the play The Red Eminence by Stanley Weyman from English and plays by Ivan Turgenev from Russian.

He also had a name as a music critic. He wrote a biography about Anton Rubinstein and was in contact with Tchaikovsky .

Works

Novels

Separate hearts . Novella. Paetel, Berlin 1888
The novel of an empress. Catherine II . of Russia . Historical novel. Bong, Berlin 1912
The master. A Richard Wagner novel . Borngraves, Berlin 1914
Against the east . Novel. Stilke, Berlin 1917. ( digitized version )

Plays

Ivan Turgenev: Natalie . Play in four acts. First performance under the direction of director Otto Devrient on September 20, 1889. Adapted from Russian for the German stage. by Eugen Zabel . Bloch, Berlin 1889

The high school director . Drama in 4 acts by Eugen Zabel and Alfred Bock. F. Fontane & Co., Berlin 1896. ( digitized version )

Out of deep need. East Prussian drama. In an elevator . Boll, Berlin 1915

Travel books

Moscow . EA Seemann, Leipzig and Berlin 1902. ( digitized )
On the Siberian railway to China . General Association for German Literature, Berlin 1904 ( digitized version )
Colorful letters from America . Stilke, Berlin 1905. ( digitized version )
St. Petersburg . Seemann, Leipzig 1905. ( digitized version )
Stefan von Kotze: Australian sketches. With a foreword by Eugen Zabel . Daily review, Berlin 1918
Sakuska. Russian memories and experiences . Reissner, Dresden 1921. ( digitized version )

Literary criticism

Ivan Turgenev. A literary study . Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1884. ( digitized version )
Literary forays through Russia . Deubner, Berlin 1885
Anton Rubinstein. An artist's life . Barthoff Senf, Leipzig 1892. ( digitized version )
Italian acting in Germany . Rentzel, Berlin 1893. ( digitized version )
LN Tolstoy . Seemann, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna 1901. ( digitized version )
Moscow . Seemann, Leipzig and Berlin 1902. ( digitized version )
To modern dramaturgy. Studies and Reviews . 3 volumes. Schulzesche Hof-Buchhandlung, Oldenburg and Leipzig 1899. ( Digitized edition of 1903 )
Theater walks . Hofmann, Berlin 1908. ( digitized version )
Goethe and Napoléon . Attempt to artistically solve a scientific problem . State Political Publishing House, Berlin 1920

Essays

Berlin stage artist XIX. Max Pohl In: Stage and World . 3 (1900/01) II, pp. 1027-1032

literature

Eugen Zabel on his seventieth birthday on December 23, 1921 . Berlin 1921
Christa Schultze: Five letters from Theodor Fontane to Eugen Zabel . In: Fontane-Blätter Heft 47, 1989, pp. 20-26
Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon Vol. XIV.Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, Munich 1993, p. 378

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Zabel, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1924
Place of death	Berlin