Lauri Wylie
Lauri Wylie , actually Morris Laurence Samuelson (born May 25, 1880 in Southport , England, † 1951 at Shoreham-by-Sea ) was a British author .
Life
He was the author / co-author of several revues and operettas (including Four, Five, Six at the Duke of York Theater , Princess Charming (1930)). His greatest success is likely to have been Dinner for One , which appeared in 1953 in the revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac . However, Wylie never profited from it, sold - allegedly - all rights to this sketch to Freddie Frinton and died in 1951 impoverished in a mobile home that served him as a dwelling.
Wylie had an older brother, Julian Samuelson.
reception
The novel Dinner for One in Goth'sch claims that Laurie Wylie got the inspiration for the Sketch Dinner for One while reading the memoirs of George Anson , Prince Albert's private secretary . In it, Wylie found the anecdote Albert liked to tell in his circle of friends about the strange birthday ritual of his grandmother, Duchess Sophie Karoline Amalie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . Since 1841, the widowed princess has celebrated her birthday in the Gotha Winter Palace with her four long-dead friends - the publisher Justus Perthes , the entrepreneur Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi , the high school professor Johann Georg August Galletti and Colonel Maximilian Franz Karl Ritter von Gadolla - and this one had to be represented by her servant at the request of the Duchess. Wylie, according to the novel, reworked the basic idea of a birthday dinner with four long dead people into a sketch, which he made out of consideration for the British royal family (which changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor as a result of the First World War in 1917 and with his German relatives wanted nothing more to do) settled in an English country estate. Wylie adapted both the German names of the protagonists and the originally served food and drinks to English customs for his sketch.
Web links
- Lauri Wylie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: Dinner for One. No refill for the feast (December 30, 2003)
- Dinner for One - The real story
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas M. Cramer: Dinner for One auf Goth'sch , Gotha 2011, pp. 74f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wylie, Lauri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samuelson, Morris Laurence (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southport , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1951 |
| Place of death | at Shoreham |