Henri Murger

Henri Murger (1854)

Henri Murger (born March 27, 1822 in Paris , † January 28, 1861 there ) was a French writer .

Life

Henri Murger spent his youth among the Buveurs d'eau ("water drinkers"), a group of bohemians in Paris' Latin Quarter . In his most famous work, Scènes de la vie de bohème , his real friends appear, often hardly veiled. B. Charles Barbara. This book - also known in German under the title Gypsy Life, for example in the translation by Walter Heichen - formed the basis for the opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini in 1896 and, a year later, for the opera of the same name by Ruggiero Leoncavallo .

Murger died at the age of only 38 in what was then Maison Dubois , today's Hôpital Fernand-Widal .

Works

Bust of Murgers in the Jardin du Luxembourg

• Scenes de la vie de bohème (1847–49)
  • Bohemian. Scenes from Parisian life . Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-884-1 (translation by Ilse Linden, Berlin 1923; motifs filmed under Das Leben der Bohème )
  • The bohemian. Scenes from the life of an artist in Paris . Translation Felix Paul Greve and frontispiece Franz von Bayros . Leipzig 1906
• Scènes de la vie de jeunesse (1851)
• Le Pays latin (1851)
• Propos de ville et propos de théâtre (1853)
• Scenes de campagne (1854)
• Le Roman de toutes les femmes (1854)
• Ballades et Fantaisies (1854)
• Les buveurs d'eau (1854)
• Le dernier rendez-vous (1856)
• Les Nuits d'hiver (1856)
• Les vacances de Camille (1857)
• Le Sabot rouge (1860)
• Madame Olympe (1860)

literature

• Georges Montorgueil : Henri Murger, romancier de la bohème . Grasset, Paris 1928

Web links

Commons : Henri Murger  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Henri Murger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Henri Murger in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Works by Henri Murger in Project Gutenberg ( currently not available to users from Germany )