Julius Beck (writer)

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Julius Anton Beck

Julius Anton Beck (born May 2, 1852 in Munich , † March 15, 1920 in Seefeld ) was a German writer, editor, reciter and teacher of performing arts.

Life

Beck was born as the illegitimate son of the “town musician's daughter” Marie Beck from Freising. After elementary school, he attended the “trade school in Ingolstadt” from 1865–68, today's Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium . He then continued his autodidactic training, and after a period of internship at the University of Munich in the subjects of history, literary history and philosophy, he accompanied a Viennese aristocrat on trips through Europe as secretary. From 1872 to 1882 he worked as an actor and director, after which he lived as an independent writer and journalist in Munich. In May 1872 there was an encounter with Johannes Brahms in Tutzing , which Beck describes in a contribution to the German house treasure . In 1885 he married Elise Hartmann , who later became a Lower Bavarian dialect poet, with whom he often performed together as a reciter, including his own works. The couple played a central role in the Munich literary association "Orion". In 1888 the son Julius Adolph was born.

Ibsen's letter to Julius Beck

From 1887 to 1888 Beck was the chief editor of the Bayerischer Landbote . In this function he received the thank you from Henrik Ibsen. From 1890 to 1891 he was in charge of the Neue Freie Volkszeitung . His friendship with Adolf Dyroff and Gustav Adolf Müller dates from this time . In the years 1895–96 he published the Münchner Humoristische Blätter and wrote texts for Lothar Meggendorfer's picture stories. In addition to his journalistic work and contributions to magazines, he emerged as a versatile writer, reciter and teacher of performing and performing arts. His works include plays, antics, short stories, calendars, libretti for operettas, a novel, children's books, board games and poems. Beck belonged to the inner circle of artists that Kathi Kobus had gathered around her in “old Simpl” on Türkenstrasse. Ringelnatz mentions him several times in his autobiography Mein Leben bis zum Krieg (1931). He was friends with the writers Maximilian Schmidt and Michael Georg Conrad , to whose magazine Die Gesellschaft he contributed. Julius Beck died at the age of 67 while staying in the country and is buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof , field 81.

Works

Evil Julius from: New Struwwelpeterbuch

Children's books in collaboration with Lothar Meggendorfer

  • The cattle market. A picture book for good boys , Esslingen: Schreiber 1886
  • The Sunshine. A humorous family friend , Berlin and Stuttgart; Spemann, 1886
  • From the nursery. A picture book for good children , Esslingen: Schreiber 1886
  • New Struwwelpeterbuch , Eßlingen: Schreiber 1891
  • Gigerl's joys and sorrows. A drawing picture book , Esslingen: Schreiber 1894
  • For pleasure. Picture book with most delightful pictures and moving, hilarious faces , Eßlingen: Schreiber 1895
  • Pictures from animal life , Esslingen: Schreiber 1895
  • "Larifari". Humorous quintessence , Munich: Haushalter 1902

Other children's books and board games

New funny bike-driving game (1900)
  • Tots , with pictures of Willy Morgenstern, Munich: Stücker'sche Karl Art Institute (1891)
  • Fence panties. The enemy rabbits , with pictures by Willy Morgenstern, Munich: Karl Stücker'sche Kunstanstalt (1891)
  • New Funny Bike-Driving Game (board game, 1900); Illustrations by Eugen von Baumgarten ; reissued by Ravensburger in 1979
  • The 19th century (knowledge game on historical events, 1900)

Other works

1905 novel.
Appearance of Elise and Julius Beck as reciters in the Stadtsaal Kaufbeuren (February 1, 1899)
  • The water shortage in June 1876 and help: a memorial book for the benefit of the damaged , J. Juker: Romanshorn 1876
  • The cousin of Angra-Pequenna (Posse) 1887
  • Ingenious children , with Fritz Brentano (comedy) 1887
  • Among the wild peoples of East Africa. Based on reports from the Emin Pasha expedition under HM Stanley's leadership , compiled and published. by Julius Beck. Illustr. by Edwin Heine 1889
  • Munich painters' studios (with photographs by Carl Teufel ) in: Vom Fels zum Meer. Spemann's Illustrirte Zeitschrift für das Deutsche Haus , October 1889 - March 1890, columns 231–249 and 397–412.
  • Time voices about Oberammergau and its Passion Play in 1890 1890
  • Germany in Africa. The fighting of our colonial troops in 1890
  • The apple of Paris , set to music by Paul Damas, conductor and singspiel director in Munich (operetta) 1890
  • " An hour of happiness " (sketch) in: Münchener Kindl. A literary almanac " , Munich 1890, pp. 25–31
  • The House Friend (comedy) 1891
  • For the seventieth birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince-Regent Luitpold, the Kingdom of Bavaria's custodian. A souvenir sheet for the Bavarian people 1891
  • Calendar for students with German language 1893
  • The murderer of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (drama) 1898
  • The Sultan's Treasure , set to music by Max Kaempfert (operetta) 1898
  • Faith and love / Der Kraftprotz (Lower Bavarian character piece) 1902
  • The right of 5.000000. Novel from the social life of the new middle class 1905
  • Nick Carter (detective piece) 1906
  • "ZI" on Mount Olympus (play) 1909
  • O these householders! (Vaudeville) 1909
  • Editing of the stage by Wilhelm Hagen , Feuerzauber 1911
  • Jausaij, the widow of the Raja ( mimodrama ) 1912
  • Comradeship : a young Germany Christmas play in 1 act, youth club stage, Leipzig 1912
  • The hypocritical (Bauernschwank) 1913
  • The vice-cooperator (also reform cooperator ), with Karl Frey (Schwank) in 1913
  • Peter in Ängsten , with Karl Fröhlich (farmer's farce with song and dance in three acts) 1914

literature

  • Anton Mansch (Ed.): Spiritual Worlds. Gallery of contemporaries in the field of arts and sciences , Berlin 1905

Web links

Julius Beck in the literature portal Bavaria

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener, ed., Who is it? Our contemporaries , Leipzig 1908, p. 70
  2. ^ Franz Brümmer, Lexicon of German Poets and Proseists from the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Present , 1913, p. 158
  3. ^ Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , 1881. P. 495
  4. ↑ Deutscher Hausschatz 15, September 1897, pp. 780–783
  5. ↑ A. Dreyer in: Anton Bettelheim, Biographisches Jahrbuch and deutscher Nekrolog, Volume 17, 1912, pp. 136-137
  6. ^ Friedrich Wienstein, Lexicon of Catholic German Poets, Hamm iW 1899, p. 345
  7. ^ Franz Brümmer, Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, Vol. I, 1913, p. 158
  8. ↑ z. B. Wedekind , Bierbaum and Mühsam
  9. ↑ His poem "On November 25th. A toast to Miss Kathi Kobus" can be found in Ringelnatz ' Simplicissimus Künstlerkneipe and Kathi Kobus from 1909, pp. 31–32.
  10. ↑ The Monacensia Literature Archive has a long, personal letter from Beck to Conrad.
  11. ↑ Brilliant children
  12. ↑ ZI was the abbreviation for the Zeppelin I of the army.
  13. ↑ This piece is identical to the previous one, so that Karl Fröhlich was obviously a pseudonym of Karl Frey (1866–1950).
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Julius Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor, reciter and teacher of performing and performing arts
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1920
Place of death Munich