Georg von Seybel

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Bellerivestrasse 7, where the Wehrle am See guesthouse was where Georg von Seybel took his own life and Hannah von Mettal sublet with Brun when she translated James Joyce's drama Exiles .
Georg von Seybel's home: Palais Seybel. 3., Vienna, Reisnerstrasse 50

Georg von Seybel (* 8. April 1886 in Vienna , † 9 / 10. April 1924 in Zurich ) was a Austrian writer , theater critic and musician , who together with the Viennese writer Rudolf Lothar successful for the German language translation as well as the premiere of James Joyce's acting has engaged exiles .

life and work

Georg von Seybel was the eldest son of the industrialist Paul von Seybel and his wife Aline von Schoeller ( Wagenmann, Seybel & Co. ). His younger brother was Wolfgang von Seybel (1890–1959), his sister Aline ("Liny") (1891–1957) married the Prague industrialist Friedrich Freiherr von Ringhoffer.

Georg Seybel received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910 on the Weimar court theater under Goethe's direction. At the beginning of the First World War, Seybel still lived in Vienna, which is evidenced by two event posters that mention Seybel's name at the beginning of 1915; At that time he took part in the “folk lectures” of the Vienna People's Education Association . But he soon moved to neutral Zurich, where his reports on the previous Zurich theater and music season were published in October 1917 and November 1918. He rented out his apartment in Vienna during his absence.

Together with the Viennese writer Rudolf Lothar is Seybel has 1,918 on behalf of James Joyce's former patron, the American multimillionaire Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872 to 1932) successfully for the German language translation and the world premiere of Joyce's play Exiles committed, the 1919 Zurich Rascher Verlag published and staged on August 7, 1919 by the director Erwin von Busse at the Munich Schauspielhaus .

After the First World War, Seybel lived “somehow as a theater secretary and critic” in Chicago and New York , but kept returning to Vienna, where he repeatedly visited Arthur Schnitzler , in whose diary he was mentioned several times. That copy of Seybel's report on the Zurich theater and music season 1916/17 , which is in the possession of the Austrian National Library , also contains the following handwritten dedication: "Arthur Schnitzler / with warm regards / in grateful admiration / GS".

On March 27, 1924, Georg von Seybel, who was receiving medical treatment at the time for severe mood depression, returned to Zurich, where he rented a room in the Pension Wehrle am See, Bellerivestrasse 7, where he stayed on the night of the 9th Killed life with an overdose of sleeping pills on April 10, 1924, a day or two after his 38th birthday. He was buried at the Sihlfeld cemetery in Zurich .

Seybel's place of death happened to be the former address of Hannah von Mettal , who made the German translation of Joyce's play Banished , for which Seybel had engaged with Rudolf Lothar on Edith McCormick's commission.

Works

  • The Weimar Court Theater under Goethe's direction with a special focus on statistics. Dissertation. 1910.
  • Goethe and Racine. In: Euphorion . 22, 1915. p. 740.
  • Report on the Zurich theater and music season 1916/17. (September 1916 - August 1917) Zurich. Publishing house Jean Frey.
  • Report on the Zurich theater and music season 1917/18. (September 1917 - August 1918) Zurich. Publishing house Jean Frey.

Web links

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  • City Archives Zurich. Registration card in the register of the residents' registration office of the City of Zurich.
  • City Archives Zurich. Death records before Georg Seybel (archive holdings Sign. Stadtarchiv VIII.Bc101. Civil registry office, files 1924)
  • Genealogical manual of the noble houses (GHdA) (article Seybel, Ringhoffer)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses (GHdA) (article Seybel, Ringhoffer)
  2. ^ Catalog of the Vienna Library
  3. ↑ MAĎARSKÁ IREDENTA A JEJ ČINNOSŤ. In: Míľniky práva v stredoeurópskom priestore . Zborník z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie doktorandov a mladých vedeckých pracovníkov organizovanej Univerzitou Komenského v Bratislave, Právnickou fakultou, v dňoch 27. - 29. 3. 2014 v priestoroch ÚZ NR SR Častázity-Papiernity, Priestoroch ÚZ JUDr. Pavla Kubíčka, CSc. ISBN 978-80-7160-371-9 (p. 46)
  4. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler : Diary. 1920-1922. July 12, 1922. Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7001-2006-0 .
  5. ↑ Seybels correspondence with Wladimir Hartlieb , ÖNB collection of manuscripts and rare books

Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition to the Pension Wehrle am See , where Anton von Webern was a guest, from the mid-1920s there was also the practice of the psychoanalyst Josef Bernhard Lang (1881-1945, who was friends with Hugo Ball and trained by Carl Gustav Jung) ), who treated Hermann Hesse between 1916 and 1919 and was on friendly terms with him until the end of his life, as evidenced by an extensive exchange of letters. In the pension Wehrle am See Ruth Wenger, who in the early 1920s with Josef Lang lived romantically involved and married later with Hesse a few years of them in the Wehrle board has visited. Today the office of the architects Bétrix & Consolascio and the law firm Bellerive Rechtsanwälte are located in the house .
personal data
SURNAME Seybel, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1924 or April 10, 1924
Place of death Zurich