Leopold Rosner

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Leopold Rosner

Leopold Rosner (pseudonym Hohenmarkt ) (born May 21, 1838 in Pest , † July 23, 1903 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , writer , bookseller and publisher .

Life

Since there were several booksellers in his mother's family, Leopold Rosner was trained in this trade at an early age. However, he went to the theater and worked as an actor in Preßburg from 1858 to 1861 , then at the Carltheater in Vienna under Johann Nestroy and in Innsbruck . Even while he was an actor, he worked with Wallishausser's bookstore, editing the Viennese theater repertoire for its owner, Joseph Klemm . In 1861 he began to work regularly in this bookstore and became the managing director there. In 1871 he founded his own bookstore, which became a meeting place for Viennese writers and artists. He also founded a publishing house in which writings on theater, literary and art history, but also on politics and economics appeared. He edited the works of Ferdinand Kürnberger , Friedrich Schlögl , Adolf von Wilbrandt , and two dramas by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , among others . He was particularly careful with the edition of the works of his friend Ludwig Anzengruber . With the series Neues Wiener Theater he published an important source collection for the Viennese theater repertoire of the 1870s and 1880s from 1872 onwards. He also published the collected feature articles by Daniel Spitzer under the title Viennese walks . After an illness in 1889, Rosner withdrew from the publishing business and devoted himself only to his writing. Rosner's daughter Helene, married Pütz, was an actress, his son Karl Rosner was a writer. Leopold Rosner's estate is in the Vienna City and State Library .

Friedrich Arnold Mayer characterizes Leopold Rosner as follows:

Always honest and straightforward, strong in love and in hatred, warm and heartfelt towards good and strong-tempered people, intolerant and ruthless towards bad and unreliable people, he himself was an anima candida; a simple, modest man, but a noble nature through and through, a true aristocratic man, in whose friendship everyone could see a certificate of nobility for himself.

Works (selection)

  • Memories of Anzengruber . Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig and Vienna 1891. online
  • Fifty years of the Carl Theater (1847–1897). A look back . Schworella & Heick, Vienna 1897. Digitized from the Internet Archive
  • From the papers of a Viennese publisher 1858–1897. Personal, literary, theatrical . Edited by Friedrich Arnold Mayer. Braumüller, Vienna 1908. Digitized
  • Shadows from old Vienna. Memories . Edited by Karl Rosner. Meyer & Jessen, Berlin 1910
  • Appetite Lexicon. An alphabetical handbook and reference book about all food and drinks. At the same time an addition to every cookbook . Edited by Robert Habs and Leopold Rosner. Vienna 1894. Reprint Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-458-33953-1

Editing

  • Ferdinand Raimund's dramatic works in 3 volumes . With introduction by Leopold Rosner. Knaur, Berlin 1903
  • Johann Nestroy's works . Nineteen parts in two volumes. Single by Leopold Rosner. Knaur, Berlin 1903.
  • The new lecture book. A rich selection of serious and cheerful declamation pieces . Hartleben, Vienna 1894

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E. Lebensaft:  Rosner, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 261.
  2. ^ Friedrich Arnold Mayer (Ed.): From the papers of a Viennese publisher. 1858-1897. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1908, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Rosner, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenmarkt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1903
Place of death Vienna