Franz Servaes

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Franz Theodor Hubert Servaes (born July 17, 1862 in Cologne , † July 14, 1947 in Vienna ) was a German journalist, critic and writer.

Life

He was born the son of Franz Friedrich Heinrich Hubert Servaes (* 1830 in Düsseldorf , † 1905 in Goslar ) and Adelgundis Bertha Arnoldine Esser (* 1837 in Cologne ; † 1874 ibid). His father was a doctor in Elberfeld, Cologne and Goslar. His mother was the daughter of the Privy Councilor of Justice Johann Heinrich Theodor Esser from Cologne.

Servaes studied art history and German at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig and Strasbourg and graduated in 1887 with a doctorate in philosophy. He went to Berlin , where he sought connection to artistic circles, and began to work as a writer. From 1888 he worked as a journalist for the German literary newspaper , the present and the nation , and on the recommendation of Theodor Fontane for the Vossische Zeitung and other papers. Among other things, he wrote for the Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift “Jugend” . Servaes married Martha Haese in 1893, divorced her in 1897, and remarried her in 1899. Three children were born from these marriages: Dagmar (Dagny), Roderich and Beate.

Servaes had first contacts in Vienna as a journalist for the local scale . After Paul Schlenther , the theater critic of the Vossische Zeitung, became director of the Burgtheater in Vienna , Servaes was given the post of critic. In 1899 Servaes came to Vienna, where he worked as an art critic. In 1900 he was a reporter for the World Exhibition in Paris for the Neue Freie Presse . After Theodor Herzl's death in 1904, he took over the feature section of the newspaper. In 1910 he and his wife bought a house with a garden in Weidlingau . After the outbreak of World War I, like many other employees of the Neue Freie Presse , he was fired.

Servaes then returned to Berlin. After the death of his wife in 1923, he married Tilly Stiefel in 1924, who died ten years later. In 1940 he moved again to Vienna and from then on lived here with his daughter Dagny Servaes . Servaes died in 1947 and was buried in an urn grave in the Steglitz cemetery in Berlin. The foreword to his last text, Greetings to Vienna, dates from 1946, it ends abruptly in the 1930s and suppresses the murder of his acquaintances and professional colleagues in the Holocaust , according to his colleague Rosa Silberer in the feature section of the Neue Freie Presse .

In 1959 Servaesgasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

Works

  • Preludes. An essay book . Schuster & Löffler: Berlin, 1899
  • The new day. Drama in 3 acts . Seemann: Leipzig, 1903
  • Michael de Ruyter's widower years. The novel of a dilettante . Fleischel: Berlin, 1909
  • If the dream fades away . Fleischel: Berlin, 1911
  • In the buds. A piece of youth . Rowohlt: Leipzig, 1911
  • Agnes and Albrecht. A love drama from the old days . German-Austrian publisher: Vienna, 1918

Fonts

  • The poetics of Gottsched and the Swiss from a literary-historical perspective . Strasbourg, 1887
  • Berlin Art Spring 1893 . Speyer & Peters: Berlin, 1893
  • Goethe at the end of the century . Fischer: Berlin, 1897
  • Heinrich von Kleist . Seemann: Leipzig, 1902
  • Giovanni Segantini . Gerlach: Vienna, 1902
  • Max Klinger . Bard: Berlin, 1902
  • Fontane . Schuster & Löffler: Berlin, 1904
  • Albrecht Dürer . Bard: Berlin, 1905
  • Vienna. Letters to a friend in Berlin . Klinkhardt & Biermann: Leipzig, 1908
  • Different anger . Velhagen & Klasing: Bielefeld, 1910
  • Goethe's Lili . Velhagen & Klasing: Bielefeld, 1916
  • Heinrich von Kleist's tragic downfall . Runge: Berlin, 1922
  • Rembrandt in the context of his time . König: Vienna, 1926
  • Year of change. Goethe's turning point in 1775 . Vieweg: Braunschweig, 1935
  • Rembrandt's Diaries 1639 to 1669. An imaginary portrait . Keil Published by Berlin, 1938
  • Greetings to Vienna . Zsolnay: Vienna, 1948

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julie M. Johnson: The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 . West Lafayette, Ind .: Purdue Univ. Press, 2012, p. 362f.
personal data
SURNAME Servaes, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servaes, Franz Theodor Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1947
Place of death Vienna