Max Joseph Wolff

Max Joseph Wolff (or Max Josef Wolff ) (born February 9, 1868 in Erfurt , † 1941 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, writer and translator.

Life

Wolff studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and found a position in the civil service after successfully completing his studies as a lawyer. After several transfers, Wolff came to Berlin in 1897 at the age of 29.

After his first literary successes, Wolff quit civil service and settled as a freelance writer in Berlin. There he advanced to professor for literature in the year of his 40th birthday . In addition to his own literary work, Wolff was also able to make a name for himself as a translator over time; his Shakespeare texts in particular were highly praised by literary critics.

For his satire Before Troy Nothing New , Wolff used the pseudonym Emil Marius Requark to meet the writer of the original In the West Nothing New , Erich Maria Remarque . Wolff published his three books about the "new" adventures of Tartarin under the pseudonym Daudet Allemand (German: Daudet) to refer to the actual author of Tartarin de Tarascon , Alphonse Daudet . Another literary alias was A. Perspicax .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Wolff was able to publish only an essay in the Yearbook 1935 on "Shakespeare and his audience." He died in Berlin in 1941 at the age of 73.

Works (selection)

• Goethe . Teubner, Leipzig 1921
• Heinrich Heine . Beck, Munich 1922 digitized
• Tartarine in Berlin . Dom-Verlag, Berlin 1922
• Tartarin on the Rhine . Dom-Verlag, Berlin 1924
• Tartarin on the Ruhr . Trowitsch Verlag, Berlin 1925
• The Renaissance in English Literature . Teubner, Leipzig 1928
• Nothing new before Troy . Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1929
• The Pied Piper of Europe. Aristide Briand . Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1930

literature

• Till Kinzel: Two German-Jewish philologists on William Shakespeare and his time. Philipp Aronstein and Max J. Wolff . In: Cord-Friedrich Berghahn and Renate Stauf (eds.): Philology and culture. The Germanic-Romanic monthly publication 1909-2009 / New Series , Vol. 59 (2009), Issue 1, pp. 169-186, ISSN  0016-8904 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Joseph Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library