Georg von der Gabelentz (writer)

Georg von der Gabelentz (born March 1, 1868 in Lemnitz , † September 10, 1940 in Münchenbernsdorf ) was a German entertainment writer.

He came from the noble family von der Gabelentz and was born as the eldest son of Hans Albert von der Gabelentz (since 1859 Gabelentz-Linsingen) on the manor Lemnitz. After graduating from high school, he studied in Lausanne and Leipzig , but then decided to pursue a military career. In 1892 he was cultural attaché at the German embassy in Rome . In 1907 he took his leave, at the time with the rank of major. Reactivated during World War I, he served as an adjutant in the War Department . After 1918 he was deputy general director at the Saxon State Theater in Leipzig for two years . In addition, his father had died in 1894 and Gabelentz had been the manager of the Gera family's inheritance ever since . From 1904 onwards he published numerous novels and short stories, but critics relegated them to the realm of colportage .

He was the older brother of the art historian Hans von der Gabelentz .

Works

• 1904: The white animal. Novellas
• 1905: Birds gone by
• 1905: The happiness of the Jahnings. novel
• 1907: forces of love. Novellas
• 1908: For a crown. novel
• 1911: Judas. Drama in three acts
• 1911: Days of the Devil. stories
• 1917: Of saints and sinners. stories
• 1920: The temptress. novel
• 1923: Happened from that other world. stories
• 1924: The Night of the Inquisitor. With 10 etchings by Max Schenke
• 1927: The pot of moles
• 1929: The Choriander riddle. novel
• 1931: The devil's egg
• 1941: In Memoriam. Poems and sayings. Published by Hans v. Gabelentz

literature

• Ottomar Enking: Georg von der Gabelentz. For the poet's 60th birthday. Leipzig 1928, 32 pp.
• Frank Rainer Scheck (ed.): Priest of death . Blitz Verlag, Windeck 2011, p. 291f
• Rein A. Zondergeld: Lexicon of fantastic literature . 1998, pp. 132f

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg von der Gabelentz in the catalog of the German National Library