Joseph von Lauff

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Joseph Lauff
Joseph Lauff with his father and sons Adolf and Hans

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1863.
  2. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures . Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01220-X
  3. ^ Konrad Adenauer, Volker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal. JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , pp. 161f.
personal data
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