Karl Lerbs

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Karl Johann Friedrich Lerbs (born April 22, 1893 in Bremen ; † November 27, 1946 in Hindelang near Sonthofen ) was a writer from Bremen .

biography

Karl Lerbs was born in 1893 as the son of a respected Bremen merchant. As a 13-year-old, he wrote poems that his father had published anonymously. He attended the old grammar school and after graduating from high school he volunteered in a bookstore. From 1916 to 1918 he was editor of a non-Bremen magazine. In 1917 he became a Freemason . From 1918 he was a reviewer for Bremen and Hamburg newspapers in Bremen . At the same time he worked as a translator of novellas and dramas from different languages ​​a. a. by Oscar Wilde . He was also a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus in Bremen . He wrote a number of templates and scripts for the film.

Lerbs became known as the author of Bremen anecdotes and purrs, which briefly described the Bremen way and the Bremen citizens, u. a. The laughing Roland , behind Roland's back .

During the Second World War , he moved with his family to the Sonthofen district . In 1946 he died there by suicide.

In Bremen Neustadt were Karl-Lerbs street and a school named after him.

Works

Cinematographic works

  • 1922 The Kisses of Ira Toscari - screenplay
  • 1935 Lady Windermeres Fan - screenplay
  • 1935: The higher order
  • 1937 Die Kronzeugin - screenplay for a crime film
  • 1938 The Man Who Can't Say No - Screenplay
  • 1943 A husband for my wife - template
  • 1953 Jonny saves Nebrador - idea and template for a Central American adventure film

Books

  • The turntable - anecdotes and purrs from all German districts
  • The handle from the dark - Detective stories by contemporary storytellers (1924) [anthology in two volumes]
  • Reaching into space - anecdotes and short stories (Th. Knaur Nachf. Verlag, Berlin, 1943)
  • Manuel - An Adventurous Novel (1948)

Translations

literature

  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon - Volume 2 - Neustadt ; Schünemann-Verlag, 2003

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