Georg Köberle

Georg Köberle (born March 21, 1819 in Nonnenhorn , Lindau district , † June 7, 1898 in Dresden ) was a German writer and dramaturge.

After attending grammar school in Augsburg, Köberle came to the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, which was conducted by Jesuits , from which he escaped to study philosophy and law in Munich.

In Leipzig, where he turned in 1845, he wrote the sensational notes from the German college in Rome (Leipzig 1846) and began his career as a dramatist in 1849 with the five-act drama Die Mediceer (Mannheim 1849), which was initially followed by the historical tragedy Heinrich IV . von France (Leipzig 1851) followed, which together with the festival Des Künstler Weihe , the play Max Emanuels Brautfahrt , the prelude Between Heaven and Earth , the play George Washington and the tragedy Die Heldin von Yorktown the content of the dramatic works (Stuttgart 1873 , 2 vols.).

Dramatist with a real profession, Köberle sought to gain practical experience through a comprehensive management tour in Heidelberg from 1853–56 and was appointed director of the Karlsruhe Court Theater in October 1872 as a result of his reformist Die Theaterkrisis im neue Deutsche Reich (Stuttgart 1872).

After losing his job again at Easter 1873, he first moved to Mannheim and later to Vienna, and since then has published the following:

• My experiences as a court theater director (2nd edition, Leipzig 1874);
• Berlin liming rods and German bullfinches (Leipzig 4 issues);
• The decline of the German stage and the coping with the theater calamity (1880).

In addition, Köberle, to whom the Grand Duke of Baden voluntarily offered a lifelong salary of 5,000 marks in 1879, wrote the novel All about nothing (Leipz. 1871, 3 vols.) And the anti-Jesuit German response to welsche projects. Revelations about the palace revolution in the Vatican etc (Stuttgart 1870).

Web links

• Lier, Hermann Arthur:  Köberle, J. Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 282-289.

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