Karel Scheinpflug
Karel Scheinpflug (born December 28, 1869 in Schlan ( Slaný ), Austria-Hungary , † May 5, 1948 in Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad)) was a Czech writer and journalist.
family
Karel Scheinpflug is the son of the entrepreneur Scheinpflug in Schlan (Slaný) in Bohemia and after graduating from high school he ran his father’s metal goods factory, a family business. He was married; his wife died early. Of their children, the son Dr. jur. Karel Scheinpflug, a lawyer, and the actress and writer Olga Scheinpflugová (1902–1968), who married the writer Karel Čapek (1890–1938) in 1935 .
Life as a writer and journalist
Karel Scheinpflug was already active as a writer while he was in charge of his father's business in Schlan and published the first volume of poetry INRI in 1898 .
After the end of the First World War in 1919 and the sale of the metal goods factory in Schlan, Scheinpflug became a journalist in Prague, from 1919 to 1927 employee of the newspaper Národní listy , 1927 editor-in-chief of the Centropress agency , 1928 to 1938 employee of the newspaper Lidové noviny and the magazine Přítomnost . He wrote under the pseudonyms En avant , Modrovous and Gwynplaine . As a writer, he has published poems, plays, travelogues and novels, some with romantic and socially critical topics, which illustrate problems in the coexistence of people that existed before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1919 and the end of the first republic of Czechoslovakia in 1939 lived in Bohemia through the defeat of Czechoslovakia .
Scheinpflug was chairman of the Association of Czech and Slovak Writers and Composers from 1927 to 1948.
Fonts
In addition to the entry in the ÖBL, a bibliography in the Sebrané spisy (Collected Works), volume 1945 to 1948.
literature
- J. Opelik: Scheinpflug, Karel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 69 f. (Direct links on p. 69 , p. 70 ).
- Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka, Volume III (N - Sch), Oldenbourg Verlag. Munich 2000. Karel Scheinpflug and Olga Scheinpflugova married Capek page 625, with further references, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 and Karel Capek ibid Volume I (A - H) page 181, edited by Heribert Sturm , Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3 -486-49491-0 .
- Eckhard Thiele : Karl Capek, biography in Reclam's Universal Library Volume 1257, 1st edition 1988, Karl Scheinpflug pages 184, 190 and 214; Karl Scheinpflug junior, page 300, Olga Scheinpflugova, numerous text passages from pages 29 to 319, Verlag Philipp Reclam junior. Leipzig. ISBN 3-379-00350-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karel Scheinpflug in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheinpflug, Karel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlan ( Slaný ), Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1948 |
| Place of death | Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) |