Leo Heller

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Leo Heller (born March 18, 1876 in Vienna , † January 31, 1941 in Prague ) was an Austrian (crime) writer , poet and journalist for the Berliner 8 Uhr-Abendblatt .

biography

Leo Heller came from a wealthy family, his parents were the merchant Sigismund Heller from Teplitz in Bohemia and his wife Ida nee. Winternitz. After leaving school, Leo Heller initially worked at a bank in Prague at the insistence of his father, but gave up the job in favor of his true passion, poetry, and became editor of the German Prager Abendblatt. In 1901 he left Prague at the invitation of Ernst von Wolhaben, who was looking for text writers for his literary cabaret "Überbrett'l", and moved permanently to Berlin. He was a writer of poems and chats, a novelist and a storyteller. He wrote his poems mainly in the Berlin dialect (North Berlin) and dealt with the social lower classes , the criminal events and the Berlin prostitution (so named after Hans Ostwald ). Together with Detective Inspector Ernst Engelbrecht , the head of the patrol and search team at the Berlin Police Headquarters, he wrote the works Berlin Razzien (1924), Criminals - Pictures and Sketches from the Life of Criminals (1925) and Children of the Night - Pictures from the Life of Criminals (1926) published by Hermann Paetel. He was a permanent member of the cabaret Die Wespen und Wilde Bühne under the direction of Trude Hesterberg . He has also given her the administration of the estate. His best-known work Aus Pennen und Kaschemmen - songs from the north of Berlin (Delta-Verlag Berlin 1921) is dedicated to Trude Hesterberg.

In 1906 Heller married the divorced cleaner Regina Friedländer, b. Oppler († 1932), owner of the exclusive hat salon " Regina Friedländer ".

The settings of his poems cannot be found. Heller had been forgotten until he became relevant again in 1981 through the commissioned production of Rinnsteinlieder for the Berliner Festspiele as part of the series Views of Prussia .

Fonts

  • Folk songs in modern clothing , 1902
  • Colorful songs , 1903
  • Garben , New Poems, 1906
  • Preludes of love. New poems and songs , 1908
  • New songs , 1908
  • The Meadow (poems), 1914
  • God preserve , 1916
  • The black and yellow book , 1916
  • Songs of Spring (Poems), 1921
  • From Pennen und Kaschemmen - songs from the north of Berlin , 1921
  • Berlin, Berlin, what are you doing? With eenem Ooge weent et, with eenem Ooge weent et , New songs from the north of Berlin, 1924
  • Chanton (Chansons), 1924
  • From nooks and crannies - gloomy and cheerful cityscapes , 1924
  • All about Alex , pictures and sketches from Berlin's police and criminal life (detective novel), 1924
  • Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron. Edited by Leo Heller. Illustrated by G. Schmedes, Berlin: Ehrlich, 1924
  • Berlin raids (according to E. Engelbrecht), 1924
  • Criminals - Pictures and sketches from the life of a criminal (according to E. Engelbrecht), 1925
  • Children of the Night - Pictures from the life of a criminal (according to E. Engelbrecht), 1926
  • This is how you look - Berlin! , Sketches and pictures from Berlin today, 1927
  • My most interesting case. From the experiences of the Berlin detective inspectors (ed.), 1927
  • Street Girls ' Songs and Others , 1930
  • The love pensioner. The life novel of a Berlin pimp , around 1933
  • The knights from the green table. A croupier's revelations , around 1933
  • The harvest wagon (poems), 1938

swell

  • From sleepovers and kaschemmen, songs from the north of Berlin. Delta-Verlag, Berlin 1921 [1]
  • Trude Hesterberg : What else I wanted to say , Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1971

literature

  • Bettina Müller: "Gloomy and cheerful cityscapes". Leo Heller, from Berlin during the Weimar Republic . Kalonymos , 21st year 2018, no. 2, pp. 4 - 6 (with photo from 1927)
  • Bettina Müller: "The greatest connoisseur and most loyal chronicler of the Berlin criminal world" . Biographical sketches, in: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History 69 (2018), pp. 134–164

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Müller: Leo Heller, the best-informed portrayal of the Berlin underworld, in: Kriminalistik , vol. 72, 2018, 2, pp. 113–118
  2. ^ Obituary Regina Friedländer. In: New Hamburg Stock Exchange Hall. March 12, 1932. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Revenge of the Confectioner. Neues Deutschland, March 9, 2018, accessed February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1941
Place of death Prague