Isidor Landau

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Isidor Landau

Isidor Landau (born September 20, 1850 in Zbaraz , Galicia , Austrian Empire , † January 16, 1944 in Zurich ) was a German journalist , theater critic and writer .

Life

His father, Meier Landau, was the estate manager of Prince de Ligne, his grandfather Ezechiel was a rabbi of Prague and Talmud scholar, his mother was Taube Auerbach.

At the age of five he came to the St. Bernard monastery school in Zbaraz and then attended the grammar schools in Tarnopol and Brody . After the failed Polish uprising in 1863/64 , he went to high school in Zurich , where he completed his schooling with the Abitur. From 1869 he studied in Bern and earned his living at the branch of the Sachse & Co. advertising expedition , Leipzig. He studied physics, cultural history (with Johannes Scherer) and ethnic psychology (with Moritz Lazarus ). In 1872 Landau went to Dresden , where he sought contacts in literary circles and made the acquaintance of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Henrik Ibsen . He met Liebknecht and Bebel in the social democratic workers' education association . A Landau novel from this period was published in sequels in the Hamburger Wochenblatt Der Freischütz . A doctoral project in Görlitz was not completed. In 1873 he became editor of the Freischütz , in 1875 head of the Dresden press and at the end of 1877 editor of the Berlin stock exchange courier . There he was editor-in-chief from 1897 to 1912. In 1913 he founded the Central Office for Berlin Tourism with the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists and edited Die Welt auf Reisen , the magazine of the “Hamburg-America Line” (until 1923). He also published theater reviews in various newspapers and magazines. He also wrote theatrical memoirs and portraits, appreciations and obituaries. He was friends with Ulla Wolff-Frank, Oscar Blumenthal , Paul Lindau , Fritz Mauthner , Gustav Karpeles and Eugen Zabel .

In 1939, Landau emigrated to Switzerland after his assets had been confiscated and he had to use further sums for the emigration, Reich flight and atonement taxes. His pension was transferred to a blocked account.

Works

  • Nordlandfahrt . The first cruises from Hamburg to Spitzbergen around 1894. Steinitz, Berlin 1895. New edition 2019 in Severus-Verlag Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-96345-207-9
  • West India trip . Steinitz, Berlin 1897
  • To Berlin . Published by the Central Office for Tourism in Greater Berlin. Publishing house Boll u Pickardt, Berlin 1914
  • The Land of Goethe 1914–1916 . A patriotic memorial book. German publishing house, Stuttgart and Berlin 1916
  • Berlin under the spotlight . Fichte-Verlag, Berlin 1924

literature

  • Klaus Hoser : The theater critic Isidor Landau . Diss. FU Berlin 1962
  • Landau, Isidor , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 203

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badenhausen, Rolf, "Landau, Isidor" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982), p. 484 f. [1]
  2. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 15, pp. 29–33
personal data
SURNAME Landau, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, theater critic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Zbaraz , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1944
Place of death Zurich