Hugo Landsberger

Josef Kainz : Hans Land

Hugo Landsberger ( pseudonym : Hans Land , born August 25, 1861 in Berlin , † after 1938 , missing ) was a German writer .

Life

Hugo Landsberger was a son of the rabbi Julius Landsberger . Hugo Landsberger attended the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin . After passing the school leaving examination , he began a commercial apprenticeship , which he broke off; instead, studied it literature and history at the universities in Leipzig and Berlin . He was in contact with the labor movement ; the fact that he had given lectures to workers' associations led to his relegation from Berlin University . Landsberger shifted to the writing of literary works, which he published under the pseudonym "Hans Land" and which appeared partly as preprints in social democratic and syndicalist newspapers. He cultivated connections to the naturalistic movement (including the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis ) and supported the Volksbühne movement . Landsberger had a close friendship with the actor Josef Kainz . Since 1901 he was married to the actress Lola Rameau .

From 1898 to 1901 Hugo Landsberger published the weekly magazine Das neue Jahrhundert . From 1905 he was part of the editorial team of Reclam's Universum . From 1909 to 1911 he was a member of the board of the Neue Freie Volksbühne . In the twenties he lived in Berlin-Halensee . There is no information about Landsberger's whereabouts after 1935; He was considered missing from 1938 at the latest .

Hugo Landsberger was the author of novels , stories and plays that were initially strongly influenced by the author's social commitment. Later works such as the successful volumes Stürme and Staatsanwalt Jordan are more likely to be classified as entertainment literature. From 1913 Landsberger was also active in film ; He wrote numerous screenplays for feature films , starred in several films as an actor with and led in 1913 in the film storms Director .

Works

• Die on the way , Berlin 1889
• Amor Tyrannus , Berlin 1889
• Society's stepchildren , Berlin 1889
• The new god , Dresden [u. a.] 1891
• Sins ... , Berlin [u. a.] 1892
• The holy marriage , Berlin 1893 (together with Felix Hollaender )
• The judge , Berlin 1893
• Mother right , Berlin 1894
• The virtuous , Berlin 1895
• To the woman , Berlin 1896
• Striking weather , Berlin [u. a.] 1897
• From two saviors , Berlin 1897
• And to whom it just happened ... , Berlin 1899
• Sacrifice of love , Berlin 1900
• Band!! , Berlin 1902
• Solstice and other short stories , Berlin [u. a.] 1904
• Artur Imhoff , Berlin 1905
• Fäulein Gelbstern , Berlin 1905
• Yes - love , Vienna [u. a.] 1906
• Royal beggars , Berlin 1906
• Storms , Berlin 1909
• Flames and other stories , Berlin 1911
• Alfred von Ingelheim's life drama , Breslau 1914
• Public Prosecutor Jordan , Berlin 1915
• Friedrich Werder's broadcast , Berlin 1917
• The golden Friedelchen , Berlin [u. a.] 1917
• Wanda , Berlin 1917
• The girl with the gold helmet , Berlin 1918
• Flames from the deep , Breslau [u. a.] 1919
• Spartacus , Hamburg 1919
• Tyranny of the Shadows , Hamburg [u. a.] 1919
• The love of Golgotha , Hamburg 1921
• Muta's luck and guilt , Berlin [u. a.] 1921
• The uprising of Spartacus , Leipzig 1922
• Derailed , Berlin 1922
• The Gehrsdorf case , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1922
• The girl from the golden west , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1922
• Love without borders , Berlin 1924
• The king's foster son , Berlin-Schöneberg 1925
• The love cage , Berlin 1925
• The singing hand , Berlin-Schöneberg 1926
• The fencer of Capua , Berlin-Schöneberg 1927
• Alexander Forescu , Munich 1928
• Maya's dream and awakening , Leipzig 1928
• Fight for Eva , Berlin 1930

Film scripts and templates

• Friedrich Werder's mission (Germany 1916)
• The golden Friedelchen (Germany 1916)
• Royal Beggars (Germany 1917)
• The judge (Germany 1917)
• The Judge (Germany 1917)
• The young Goethe (Germany 1918)
• The Ring of Three Wishes (Germany 1918), together with Emil Rameau
• The Singing Hand (Germany 1918)
• Sin (Germany 1918)
• The little girl from the film (Germany 1922)
• The girl from the golden west (Germany 1922), together with Hans Werckmeister
• The affair of Baroness Orlowska (Germany 1923), together with Hans Werckmeister
• The love cage (Germany 1925), together with Helmuth Ortmann
• When the Heart of Youth Speaks (Germany 1926)
• The impostor (Germany 1927)

literature

• Klaus Siebenhaar :  Landsberger, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 518 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Art and Culture", in: Der Pionier, 1st year (1911), No. 1

Web links

Wikisource: Hugo Landsberger  - Sources and full texts

• Hugo Landsberger at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Hugo Landsberger in the catalog of the German National Library