Fedor Mamroth

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Fedor Mamroth (born February 21, 1851 in Breslau , † June 25, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the editor of the feature pages of the Frankfurter Zeitung .

Life

At the University of Wroclaw he studied philosophy and fine arts and received his doctorate in 1873 with the work Geoffrey Chaucer , his time and his dependence on Boccaccio .

In the same year he went to Vienna , became night editor of the Neue Freie Presse and at the same time took a secretary position at the coal traffic bank. From the "correction room" of the Neue Freie Presse he moved to the editorial office of the Deutsche Zeitung and at the same time wrote reviews of Burgtheater performances for the Vienna Sunday and Monday newspaper . In 1883 he joined the editorial staff of the press and in 1886 he founded the literary bi-monthly publication An der Schönen Blauen Donau .

In his obituaries it was mentioned many times that Arthur Schnitzler , Hermann Bahr , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Beer-Hofmann owed their first successes to his careful reading . At the same time, together with the musician and journalist Otto S. Weiß , he wrote a number of stage plays that were successfully performed but are largely forgotten today.

From 1889 he was feuilleton -Redakteur the Frankfurter Zeitung . His reputation is illustrated by the following quote:

“It was the first time in a long time that something from a Prague paper found favor with the scissors of the omniscient and infallible Fedor Mamroth in Frankfurt. (“Mamroth's scissors rhymes with honor”, ​​the feature editor of the Prager Tagblatt used to rhyme smugly when the Frankfurter Zeitung had cut out the same thing as he did.) The quotation from our newspaper should therefore have been felt as if the entire editorial staff were in it Order of the day quoted. If only the decorated achievement hadn't been accomplished by the youngest young man, the local reporter, and this praise hadn't sounded like a rebuke to the others. "In the Prague Bohemia ", the chief judge in Frankfurt introduced the print, "you will find the following, unusually well-written note" "

- Egon Erwin Kisch : Marketplace of Sensations

He died of cancer in 1907.

Fedor Mamroth and Karl May

In the morning edition of the Frankfurter Zeitung he published some glosses against Karl May in June and July 1899 . In his first article of June 3, 1899, Mamroth admitted that May was a talented narrator, but at the same time criticized his mixture of “healthy brutality” and “bigoted Christianity”. When May was defended in letters to the editor, Mamroth followed up. He accused May of “holding on to fiction even in bourgeois life and reinforcing that he himself had what he represented, experienced and achieved”, thereby turning his phantasms into untruths and his stories immoral. With these contributions the great press feud against May began. Although no further attacks by Mamroth followed, Karl May remembered this first serious opponent as the main enemy and reflected him in his novel Im Reiche des Silber Löwen IV in the character of Ahriman Mirza .

family

Fedor Mamroth was the son of the merchant Louis Mamroth and his wife Sophie. He belonged to the Catholic denomination. His daughter Else was born from his marriage to Johanna, nee Schwabacher . She became a member of the center in the Nassau municipal parliament , the second city councilor in Frankfurt and was murdered by the National Socialists in 1943 because of her Jewish origin.

Paul Goldmann was a nephew of Mamroth.

Publications

  • The woman in the field of the modern German novel. Literary-historical contours , Breslau 1871
  • In 1885 a collection of his travelogues appeared under the title Milestones
  • An anthology followed in 1890 with stories: Under the bell cap
  • Posthumously, his widow published two volumes of theater reviews and a collection of his articles: From the Frankfurter Theaterchronik and From the life of a traveling journalist .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch: Marketplace of Sensations . El libro libre , Mexico City 1942, in the chapter: Debut at the Mill Fire.
  2. ↑ Hansotto Hatzig: Mamroth against May - The attack of the Frankfurter Zeitung , yearbook of the Karl May Society 1974, pp. 109-130, quoted in: Frederik Hetmann : "Old Shatterhand, that's me". The life story of Karl May , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 2000, p. 200

literature

  • Fedor Mamroth . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 26th edition. tape 6 . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1973, ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4 , p. 44–45 ( online version [accessed June 16, 2012]).
  • Karl May: May against Mamroth. Reply to the "Frankfurter Zeitung" . In: Heinz Stolte , Claus Roxin (Ed.): Yearbook of the Karl May Society . Hansa-Verlag, Hamburg 1974, p. 131–152 ( online version [accessed October 16, 2011]).
  • Hansotto Hatzig: Mamroth against May. The attack by the "Frankfurter Zeitung" . In: Heinz Stolte , Claus Roxin (Ed.): Yearbook of the Karl May Society . Hansa-Verlag, Hamburg 1974, p. 109–130 ( online version [accessed October 16, 2011] also contains further biographical information on Fedor Mamroth).
  • Jürgen Seul : Karl May in the judgment of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" . In: Materials on Karl May's work . tape 3 . Hansa Verlag, Husum 2001.
  • Gerhard Klußmeier , Hainer Plaul: Karl May and his time. Pictures, documents, texts. A picture biography . Karl-May-Verlag , Bamberg - Radebeul 2007, ISBN 978-3-7802-0181-2 , p. 359 .
  • Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. 1868–1933 (= Nassau parliamentarians. Vol. 2 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 17 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 9-10.

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personal data
SURNAME Mamroth, Fedor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor (FAZ)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1907
Place of death Frankfurt am Main