Georg Irrgang

Georg Irrgang (born March 31, 1860 in Kleinnaundorf ; † 1939 ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Georg Irrgang was born in Kleinnaundorf near Dresden in 1860 as the son of the royal court conductor Friedrich Bernhard Irrgang and his wife Emilie. He grew up in Dresden and attended the Annengymnasium there . At the Polytechnic he began to study philosophy and literature and completed his studies at the University of Leipzig . Irrgang became a writer himself and began publishing dramatic works in 1886.

In 1889 Irrgang became editor of the Dresdner Anzeiger, today the Dresden Official Gazette . There he was entrusted with the management of the local section and also wrote as an art critic. He wrote opera texts for Karl Grammann .

Georg Irrgang married Natalie Helene Pfenigwerth in 1898. Their son Heinz was born two years later.

When the Reich Association of German Writers was founded in 1933, Irrgang became a consultant for an RDS department.

Create

Irrgang worked for decades for the Dresdner Anzeiger, which he helped shape - he headed the local section for over 35 years. As a writer, Irrgang received attention and was mentioned in the poet overviews and literary stories by Franz Brümmer , Karl Ludwig Leimbach and Adolf Bartels . He is characterized in detail as a writer by Leimbach, who also presents various of his works and praises the noble and lofty sense, but criticizes that the work is sometimes too soft, sweet and improbable.

Works

• Leonore , play, 1886.
• The Brothers , drama, 1886.
• Pelopidas , tragedy, 1886.
• The dangerous cousin , comedy, 1886.
• In joy and sorrow , novella, 1887.
• The veiled image , drama, 1887.
• Young dreams , poems, 1887.
• The poetry of life , poems, 1887.
• The cradle of love , play, 1887.
• The Resi vom Sentis , novella, 1888.
• Intrepidus , tragedy, 1888.
• Girls' dreams , play, 1888.
• In love thoughts , comedy, 1888.
• The little diplomat , comedy, 1888.
• Illustrated Guide - Dresden and the Surrounding Area , Dresden, Baensch, 1903.
• Artists among themselves , Carnival Festival, 1907.
• About the city and the crown. Patriotic Festival to mark the centenary of the Wars of Liberation , 1913.
• War and hardship. A historical festival , 1925.

literature

• Adolf Bartels : The German poetry from Hebbel to the present. Part Two - The Younger . Leipzig, 1922. p. 60.
• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th completely revised and greatly increased edition. 6th volume. P. 378.
• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is who? , Vol. 10, 1935. P. 740.
• Karl Ludwig Leimbach : The German poets of modern times and the present , 1885. P. 176.
• German press . Vol. 25, 1935. p. 181.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cuno Horkenbach : The German Empire from 1918 to today . Vol. 3, Verlag für Presse, Wirtschaft und Politik, 1933. S. 575.