Friedrich Eisenlohr (writer)

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Friedrich Eisenlohr (born May 26, 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died October 18, 1954 in East Berlin ) was a German writer.

Life

Friedrich Eisenlohr tried to break out of bourgeois life and traveled to Paris in 1912 . In 1913 he wrote the crime sonnets there with Livingstone Hahn and Ludwig Rubiner . The sonnets are seen as the forerunner of Dadaism . Through Rubiner's mediation, he became an employee in Franz Pfemfert's magazine Die Aktion , which printed his poetry, and in Herwarth Walden's magazine Der Sturm .

Eisenlohr was drafted as a soldier in the First World War in 1914 and came to the Western Front in France. He suffered a war neurosis and was used as unfit for field service in the stage .

In 1918 Eisenlohr published essays on the playwrights Frank Wedekind and Carl Sternheim . He translated Alfred de Musset into German. During the Weimar Republic, Eisenlohr worked as a dramaturge at various stages . After the autobiographical novel Das Gläserne Netz (1927) and the novel Quintett , Eisenlohr turned away from his expressionist visions and wrote light entertainment and crime literature. Of his own dramas and comedies, only The Legend of the Marquise de Croisset (1920) in Frankfurt am Main and The Scandal in Munich were premiered.

In the time of National Socialism he withdrew from the theater life, adapted his writing style to the changed circumstances and wrote "Kameradschaftsprosa". In 1943 he was employed as a dramaturge at the Rose Theater and the Lessing Theater .

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During the denazification after the end of the war, he benefited from his long-standing friendship with Johannes R. Becher and Heinrich Mann ; his writings were considered “non-political Nazi literature”. He became head of stage sales at Aufbau-Verlag in East Berlin . His wife, thirty years his junior lyric poet Annemarie Bostroem, also worked there . When Eisenlohr suffered a stroke in 1951, stage sales were managed by Henschel-Verlag and then taken over entirely.

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte. Later (2015) Annemarie Bostroem was buried with him.

Works (selection)

  • Forever smiling unhealthily . Afterword by Klaus Völker . Munich: Renner Verlag, 1992
  • Criminal sonnets . Bern: Scherz Verlag, 1962
  • Romantic trip . Berlin: Construction stage sales, 1946, not for sale. [Stage] Ms.
  • The big test . Berlin: Scherl Verlag, 1943
  • Stranger on board . Berlin: Aufwärts-Verlag, 1941
  • Face and mask . Böhm.-Leipa: Ed. Kaiser Verlag, 1941
  • It's good that you're here . B.-Leipa: Ed. Kaiser Verlag, 1941
  • Bomber over Warsaw . Berlin: Steiniger, 1940
  • The Aldringer sisters . Berlin: Wigankow, 1940
  • Who is Brigitte? Berlin: magazine publisher, 1939
  • The man in the shadows . Bern: Goldmann Verlag, 1936
  • The gentlemen from the lift bag . Berlin: Scherl Verlag, 1936
  • It's good that you're here . Berlin: Schützen-Verlag, 1935
  • Summer comedy . Berlin: magazine publisher, 1935
  • Roosje - and the happiness of the children . Berlin W 50, Marburger Str. 12: The new stage publisher, 1934, not for sale. [Stage] Ms.
  • Hunger for happiness . Berlin: Scherl Verlag, 1932
  • Quintet 1928 . Berlin: Horen-Verlag, 1928
  • The glass network . (Autobiography) Berlin-Grunewald: Horen-Verlag, 1927
  • Carl Sternheim . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1926
  • Masks . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1921
  • Adventure . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1920
  • The scandal . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1920
  • The legend of the Marquise de Croisset . Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1918
  • with Ludwig Rubiner , Livingstone Hahn: criminal sonnets . Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Susanne Misterek: Polish drama in theater and book publishers in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002; at the same time: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 2000, p. 77 f.
  2. ^ Eisenlohr, Friedrich . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 3, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 100 ( luise-berlin.de - Berlin Biographies [E]).
personal data
SURNAME Eisenlohr, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1954
Place of death East Berlin