Ferdinand Gross (journalist)

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Ferdinand Gross (born April 8, 1848 in Vienna ; † December 21, 1900 there ) was an Austrian journalist , writer and playwright .

Life

Ferdinand Gross completed his studies in Vienna. He emerged as a writer at the age of 15 and was encouraged by August Silberstein . From 1866 he developed a lively activity as a collaborator in the political feature pages of various Viennese and foreign newspapers. When the Suez Canal was opened in 1869 , he wrote an article about it for the morning mail . In 1872 he was a co-founder of the illustrated Wiener Extrablatt . After traveling through Italy , France and the Orient, he lived for a long time in Prague and Budapest .

Gross became better known when he won first prize in the competition announced by the Berlin Central Literary Office in 1877 for his humorous literary future music for the best features . In 1879 he went to Frankfurt am Main as editor of the feature pages of the Frankfurter Zeitung , but returned to Vienna in 1881 to take over the editing of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung . In December 1886 he founded the monthly Der Frauenfeind , which he published briefly. Later he was the editor of Viennese fashion . From 1891 he was a member of the editorial team of the Vienna Foreign Gazette . From 1897 to 1898 he was President of the Concordia Writers' Union . After his death in December 1900 he was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

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Gross combined his small sketches and studies in numerous collections:

  • Small coin , Breslau 1878
  • Oberammergau Passion Letters , Breslau 1880; new edition 1890
  • Void and fleeting , Leipzig 1880
  • With the pencil , Leipzig 1881
  • Today and yesterday , Vienna 1883
  • From the library , lectures and studies, Vienna 1883
  • Blätter im Winde , in: Bibliothek für Ost und West , Vienna 1884; 2nd edition, Leipzig 1888
  • From my Wiener Winkel, pictures , Leipzig 1885
  • Literary models , Berlin 1887
  • Goethe's Werther in France , Leipzig 1888
  • For dessert , Leipzig 1889
  • What the library says , Leipzig 1889
  • In passing , Leipzig 1892
  • Unbound , Vienna 1895
  • Laughing and smiling , Stuttgart 1898
  • From the light side , Leipzig 1900

As in these writings, Gross is a graceful chat with fine ironic humor in his poems (Leipzig 1880), songs from the mountains (Vienna 1885) and instant pictures (Vienna 1895). For the stage he wrote the comedies Die neue Journalisten (with Max Nordau , Leipzig 1880) and The First Letter (Vienna 1883). As a playwright, he also published the one-act chat Secret Secrets (Vienna 1877). He also translated Daudet's The Elder Brother , Daudet's Obstacle and Coquelin's The Art and the Actor (Vienna 1883).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the article on Gross in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon (vol. 2, p. 73); in older reference works such as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4th edition, vol. 7, p. 759) April 8, 1849 is given as Gross' date of birth.
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SURNAME Gross, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1900
Place of death Vienna