Hermann Sternheim

Hermann Sternheim (born March 10, 1849 in Hanover ; died September 1916 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and theater director .

Life

Hermann Sternheim grew up in Hanover as the son of the banker Julius Carl Sternheim (1820–1877) and Jeanette Sternheim, née Lessing (1823–1889) at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . His younger brother was the later banker, stockbroker and newspaper owner Carl Jakob Sternheim (1852-1918), his sister Bertha (date of birth unknown) died in 1921. Hermann Sternheim worked after the establishment of the German Empire from 1871 to 1882 as editor of the Hannoversche Tageblatt and for various others Newspapers.

From 1882 onwards, Sternheim became self-employed as a freelance writer with residence in Wernigerode , and from 1886 in Berlin. There he worked from 1887 to 1894 as director of the Belle Alliance Theater . Hermann Sternheim was the uncle of the well-known writer Carl Sternheim , who from an early age saw many theater performances in his uncle's Berlin theater business, which would shape his later work as a dramatist in form, content and aesthetics. Hermann Sternheim was married to Else Sternheim, and this marriage resulted in three children: Leo, Melita and Franziska. No further life data are currently known about the wife Else or the three children.

Works (incomplete)

Sternheim wrote among other things

• Libretti , including
  • to the operetta The Favorite by “K. Grau ”, premiered in Hanover in 1886;
• as well as stage plays , including
  • 1887 the Schwank The Reichstag election .

literature

• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, p. 518.
• Hugo Thielen : STERNHEIM, (1) Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 349.
• Hugo Thielen: Sternheim, (1), Hermann. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 603.
• William Grange: Historical Dictionary of German Theater. Scarecrow Press, 2006, p. 307 ff.

Web links

• Sternheim, Carl IN Historical dictionary of German Theater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hugo Thielen: STERNHEIM, (1) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hugo Thielen: Sternheim, (1) ... (see literature)
3. ^ William Grange: Historical Dictionary of German Theater. Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8108-5315-9 , p. 307 ff.