Leo Leipziger

Leo Leipziger (born December 17, 1861 in Breslau , † December 21, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German writer and librettist . After attending grammar school in Berlin, he studied law in Leipzig and Heidelberg. He gave up the practice of law after he became co-owner in 1893, owner, director and theater critic of the daily newspaper Das kleine Journal in 1894 . In 1903 he founded the liberal weekly Roland von Berlin . Together with the composer Jean Gilbert he wrote the operetta Fräulein Trallala . He wrote the novels Die Ballhaus-Anna (1895) and the revision Mascotte (1920).

Works

• The Ballhaus Anna . A Berlin moral novel. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1895
• The new morality . Berlin novel. Berlin, 1898
• From a fool's diary . Harmony, Berlin 1907
• The lifebelt . Roland, Berlin 1905
• Roland songs 1914-1915 . Roland, Berlin, 1915
• From a fool's diary . Schles. Publishing house, 1916
• with Victor Holländer and Alfred Berg: WP wg: Revue in a prelude by Viktor Holländer. 3 pictures u. 1 episode by Leo Leipziger . Bote & Bock, Berlin, 1919
• Mascotte: rework. d. The novel "Die Ballhaus-Anna" . Knoblauch, Berlin, 1920
• Die neue Linden: Berlin novel from the last years of peace. Budeju, Berlin, 1920
• The mountain stag: a stock market novel. Dr. Eysler & Co., Berlin, 1922

literature

• Jean Gilbert: What we think about / Max Winterfeld. Colorful pictures from great times by Franz Arnold, Leo Leipziger a. Walter Turszinsky. Musicaverlag Metropoltheater, Berlin, Bühnenverlag Ahn & Simrock, Berlin, 1914
• German Literature Lexicon. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch, 3rd ed. Ed. by Heinz Rupp and Carl Ludwig Lang, Francke, Munich, Volume 9 (1984), Col. 1175
• Bodo Rollka:  Leipziger, Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 152 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Frank Milautzcki: Swept up by the muses - Leo Leipziger and his sock puppet
• Works by Leo Leipziger in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Killy, Literature Lexicon