Leo field

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Leo Feld (born February 14, 1869 in Augsburg , † September 5, 1924 in Florence ; actually Leo Hirschfeld ) was an Austrian librettist , translator and writer .

Life

Leo Feld's parents came to Vienna around 1875, which then became his actual home. He was the brother of the more famous librettist Victor Léon and the pedagogue Eugenie Hirschfeld . Feld studied philosophy in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1892. Even as a student he wrote features for Viennese magazines. His literary talent was promoted by Jakob Julius David and Hermann Bahr . His first dramatic stage work received the Bauernfeld Prize . During a temporary stay in Berlin around 1900 he worked for the Überbrettl . Afterwards he worked as a dramaturge and director in Braunschweig. Feld was one of Josef Kainz's closest friends .

He was considered one of the most idiomatic translators from English; widespread z. B. his translations of the works of Charles Dickens . With the new discovery of the operas by Alexander Zemlinsky (e.g. clothes make the man ) and Hans Gál for the opera stages, Felds' libretti, which are not always high-ranking literary, are brought back to a wider audience.

At the beginning of March 1900 he married the writer and actress Olga Wohlbrück in Berlin , but the marriage was divorced again in 1903.

Works (selection)

  • The rags (1898)
  • Miss teacher (folk piece) (1905)
  • The stone of Pisa (1906)
  • The big name (folk piece) (1909)
  • The Dombacher (1917)
  • The Ornate Grid (1923)
  • Path in the Fog (1925)

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 2. Chernivtsi. no J. (1925-36), p. 233.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 309.
  • Hirschfeld Leo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 332.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1900-03-06, page 4. Retrieved on June 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Kurt Loup, Die Wohlbrücks: Eine deutsche Theaterfamilie, page 253.
personal data
SURNAME Field, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschfeld, Leo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librettist, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1924
Place of death Florence