Max Kurnik

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Max Kurnik (born November 1, 1819 in Santomischel , † April 8, 1881 in Breslau ) was an editor , theater critic and writer in Breslau.

Life

Max Kurnik was one of the leading left-wing liberal journalists in Wroclaw from around the middle of the 19th century. In 1851 he founded the first telegraph office in Silesia. He worked for the Schlesische Zeitung and later for the Breslauer Zeitung as a theater and music critic. From 1872 he headed the Silesian Press , which was published by Salo Schottländer . He was a close friend of Karl von Holtei .

Alexander Moszkowski reported in his autobiography about Kurnik's apparently rather conservative taste in music:

“The famous Leopold Damrosch wielded the baton, and he gave us a vague idea of ​​symphonic classicism. These were, however, overwhelmed by the orchestral adventures that Damrosch, as an ultra-progressive, placed in the foreground. He brought the futurisms of Liszt and Berlioz, and when he once let loose a festival music by Hans von Bronsart on us, it was taken for granted that this clay terrain was essentially dominated by the devil. We were encouraged in this by our house oracle of the Silesian press, whose main representative Max Kurnik stood in the odor of infallibility. And there we read it in black and white that such festive music would only be appropriate when the cannibals were slaughtering people. Now we were standing there completely justified with our many-handed drumming, which we had called in a drastic generalization "make a symphony". "

- Alexander Moszkowski : The panorama of my life

Works (incomplete)

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Selected dramas explained analytically , 1845
  • Goethe's women. In two deliveries , Joh.Urban Kern, Breslau 1848 and 1849
  • Karl von Holtei. A picture of life , Berlin 1880
  • Theater memories , Janke Verlag, Berlin 1882
  • A generation of theater memories (1848-1880) , Bertrams Print on Demand, ISBN 978-1-149-35952-5

literature

  • Hans Jessen: Max Kurnik. A Breslau journalist (1819-1881) , Verlag der Breslauer Zeitung, Breslau 1927. DNB 574106634

Web links

Commons : Max Kurnik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~musik/web/institut/agOst/docs/mittelost/hefte/1121_subel.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.antiquariat.de/angebote/GID12939548.html
  4. ^ Till van Rahden, Juden und other Breslauer , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000, ISBN 978-3525357323 , p. 129
  5. ↑ Alexander Moszkowski : The panorama of my life in the Gutenberg-DE project
personal data
SURNAME Kurnik, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, theater critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Santomischel
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1881
Place of death Wroclaw