Georg Hiltl

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Georg Johann Hiltl (born July 16, 1826 in Berlin ; † November 15, 1878 there ) was a German theater actor , director and writer .

Life

Georg Hiltl was the son of the courtyard paper maker Anton Hiltl. The father was involved in furnishing the Carlschen Stadtpalais on Wilhelmplatz .

Georg Hiltl dedicated himself to the stage at Theodor Döring's instigation , found engagement in Hanover in 1843, in 1845 at the court theater of his hometown, where he also worked as a director from 1854 to 1861. In 1873 his studies of medieval weapons gave him the direction of Prince Carl von Prussia's famous weapons collection , which he described (Berlin 1861, 1876).

After he had started his literary work with translations of French dramas, he turned to novellistics and wrote a number of novels and short stories, mostly of historical content, which were widely read without meeting higher standards. Among them was a work on Madame de Brandebourg , which he published in the gazebo in 1863. He was a co-founder of the magazine Der Bär , founded in 1875 . Berlin sheets for patriotic history and antiquity.

Georg Hiltl died in Berlin in 1878 at the age of 52 as a result of a softening of the brain. He was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved. Hiltl's early death prevented the completion of a catalog of antiquities.

Works

  • Madame de Brandebourg . In: The Gazebo . Volume 44, 1863, pp. 695 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Dangerous ways (Berlin)
  • Under the red eminence (Berlin 1869);
  • The old Derflinger and his dragoons (Leipzig 1871);
  • The Roggenhauskomplott (Berlin 1873);
  • The ladies of Nanzig (Berlin. 1874);
  • Gone forever (Berlin 1878) etc.
  • The Bohemian War and the Main Campaign (4th edition, Berl, 1875);
  • The French War of 1870/71 (3rd edition, that. 1876);
  • Prussian royal stories (Bielefeld 1875) a. a.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Hiltl  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harry Nehls: Italy in the Mark - To the history of the Glienicker Antikensammlung (writings of the Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, issue 63), Berlin / Bonn: Westkreuz, 1987.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 303.
personal data
SURNAME Hiltl, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiltl, Georg Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1878
Place of death Berlin