Joseph von Lauff
Joseph Lauff , von Lauff since 1913 , (born November 16, 1855 in Cologne , † August 20, 1933 in Cochem-Sehl ) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel and writer .
Life
Lauff was the son of a lawyer . He spent most of his youth in Kalkar and attended high school in Münster . From 1877 to 1898 he was a member of the Prussian army ; he was temporarily stationed in Cologne and rose to major . After he had published his first literary works in the 1980s , he was appointed dramaturge (directorate) of the Royal Theater in Wiesbaden by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898 . From 1903 Lauff was a freelance writer. He enjoyed the protection of Wilhelm II, who valued the Prussian-national tendency of Lauff's dramas . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign , Kaiser Wilhelm II raised him to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1913 .
On the other hand, some contemporary fellow writers - above all Karl Kraus - called Lauff a trivial "court dramatist". Lauff took part in the First World War as a zD officer and worked as an artillery officer and war correspondent .
Lauff's extensive literary work consists mainly of novels , short stories and plays . In his prose works he mostly deals with topics from his homeland on the Lower Rhine . Again and again he is concerned with the conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism . What is striking is a - not always organic - juxtaposition of tragic, humorous and (occasionally) fantastic moments, for example in the novel Marie Verwahnen .
He belonged to the group of authors and writers who, on behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, worked on the literary design of the Stollwerck collector's pictures and scrapbooks. Other authors were the poet "T.Resa" alias Theresa Gröhe , geb. Pauli-Greiffenberg, the zoologist Prof. Paul Matschie , the writer Hans Eschelbach , the journalist Julius Rodenberg , the poet Carl Hermann Busse , the novelist Gustav Falke , the poet Anna Ritter a . v. a. m.
Honor
On October 19, 1930 Lauff was made an honorary citizen of the city of Kalkar. In the Cologne district of Lindenthal , his work was honored by naming Von-Lauff-Straße .
Works
- Jan van Calker. Friedenau-Berlin 1883.
- The Helfensteiner. Cologne [u. a.] 1889.
- The proud woman. Cologne [u. a.] 1891.
- The witch. Cologne [u. a.] 1892.
- Klaus Störtebecker. Cologne [u. a.] 1893.
- Inez de Castro. Cologne [u. a.] 1894.
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Regina Coeli. Cologne [u. a.]
- 1 (1894)
- 2 (1894)
- The captain's wife. Berlin [u. a.] 1895.
- Herodias. Berlin [u. a.] 1896.
- Run into the country. Berlin [u. a.] 1896.
- The monk of Saint Sebaldus. Berlin [u. a.] 1896.
- The Red Cross. Berlin [u. a.] 1896.
- The burgrave. Berlin [u. a.] 1897.
- In the Rosenhag. Berlin [u. a.] 1897.
- Advent. Berlin [u. a.] 1898.
- The iron tooth. Berlin [u. a.] 1899.
- The flagellor. Cologne [u. a.] 1900.
- Karrekiek. Berlin [u. a.] 1901 ( digitized version )
- Rüschhaus. Berlin 1901.
- The army owl. Berlin [u. a.] 1902.
- Marie Verwahnen. Cologne [u. a.] 1902 ( digitized version )
- Pittje Pittjewitt. Berlin 1903 ( digitized version )
- Mrs. Aleit. Berlin 1905 ( digitized version )
- The dancing lady. Berlin 1907 ( digitized version )
- The dikemaster. Berlin [u. a.] 1908.
- Gotberga. Berlin [u. a.] 1908.
- Saint Anne. Berlin 1908 ( digitized version )
- The cloth of Cologne. Mainz 1909.
- Sardanapal. Berlin 1909 (accompanying seal to the great historical pantomime at the Royal Opera House Berlin)
- Kevelaer. Berlin 1910.
- Lux aeterna. Berlin 1911.
- The great king. Berlin 1912.
- The Brinkschulte. Berlin 1913 ( digitized version )
- Kerkyra. Berlin 1913.
- Anne-Susanne. Berlin 1915 ( digitized version )
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The brixiade. Berlin.
- 1. A strange moonlight, wine and Moselle fairy tale. 1915 ( digitized version )
- 2. The St. Martin's goose. 1918 ( digitized version )
- 3. The hunt. 1920 ( digitized version )
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Singing sword. Berlin
- 1 (1915)
- 2 (1916)
- Sergeant Flintstone. Berlin 1917.
- Snow. Berlin 1919 ( digitized version )
- O how far is it. Magdeburg 1920.
- Sinter Klaas. Berlin 1921 ( digitized version )
- Spring saddle. Berlin 1922 ( digitized version )
- The seer of the getter. Berlin 1923 ( digitized version )
- The tragic comedy in the house of the Spier brothers. Berlin 1924 ( digitized version )
- The three kings. Berlin 1925 ( digitized version )
- Juffer Beetie. Torments. Magdeburg 1925.
- The preacher from Aldekerk. Berlin 1926.
- Perdje Puhl. Berlin 1927.
- The paper Aloys. Berlin 1928 ( digitized version )
- People without honor. Leipzig 1929.
- The Joseph von Lauff book. Berlin 1930.
- O you my Lower Rhine. Berlin 1930 ( digitized version )
- Elisabeth Wandscherer, the Queen. Leipzig 1931 ( digitized )
- Mirror of my life. Berlin 1932.
- The saint of the Lower Rhine. Leipzig 1933 ( digitized version )
literature
- Walther Müller-Waldenburg: Joseph Lauff. A contribution to contemporary literary history. Strecker, Stuttgart 1906.
- Christian Spielmann: Joseph von Lauff, a Rhenish poet. For his 60th birthday. G. Grote, Berlin 1915.
- Gerhard Kaldewei (ed.): Joseph von Lauff. 1855-1933. Poet of the Lower Rhine and the Wilhelmine era. Boss, Kleve 1988, ISBN 3-922384-55-2 .
- Hermann Zilles senior: Joseph von Lauff and his summer residence near Cochem-Sehl. In: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 1987. S. 101ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph von Lauff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joseph von Lauff in the German Digital Library
- Works by Joseph von Lauff in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Entry on Joseph von Lauff in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Inventory overview Lauff, Josef von in: The digital historical archive Cologne, here: bequests, party, club, family archives .
Individual evidence
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1863.
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures . Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01220-X
- ^ Konrad Adenauer, Volker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal. JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , pp. 161f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lauff, Joseph von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lauff, Joseph (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant colonel and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1855 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1933 |
Place of death | Cochem-Sehl |