Maximilian Bern

Maximilian Bern (originally Bernstein, born November 11, 1849 in Cherson , Russian Empire , † September 10, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German writer and editor.

Life

Maximilian Bern was born the son of a doctor and imperial court councilor . After the early death of their father, the family moved to Vienna in 1862. Maximilian Bern studied philosophy and literature there from 1869 to 1872. In 1873 he became a teacher at an equestrian society . From 1875 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and Hamburg, temporarily in Leipzig, Dresden, Frankfurt a. M. and Munich; between 1885 and 1887 in Paris, then, from 1888, back in Berlin. In Vienna in the early 1880s he met Arthur Schnitzler , who later wrote about Maximilian Bern: He “soon fell silent as a poet and subsequently limited himself to the publication of anthologies and declamations”. From 1887 to 1897, Bern was married to the writer and actress Olga Wohlbrück .

death

The historian Frederick Taylor describes how Maximilian Bern withdrew all of his life savings of over 100,000 marks in Berlin from his account in September 1923 and paid for exactly one subway ticket (for comparison: 1906 the average savings in savings bank accounts in the German Reich were 719 marks, 100,000 marks was a considerable sum). He made one last trip through Berlin and then returned to his apartment, where he starved to death.

Maximilian Bern found his final resting place in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf .

Works

German poetry - Since Goethe's death , printed / published by Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1878
Anthology for the nursery - a selection of the best nurses, game verses, puppet poems, riddles, fables , Stuttgart 1879
Liliput, Belletrist, Miniature Bibl. , Münster 1879–80
Illustrated house treasure for the young - a selection of the best fables, songs, sayings , Stuttgart 1880
From Society - An Almanach , Leipzig 1882–1883
At your own stove - A German house book , Leipzig 1887
Declamatorium - A sample collection of serious and cheerful lecture poems from world literature , publisher: Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1887
Funny hours - a rich collection of cheerful fairy tales, stories , Wiesbaden 1887
Heaven! A harvest of Christian poetry , Stuttgart 1889
Christian memorial book , Stuttgart 1893
Evangelical Declamatory - A sample collection of Christian lecture poems , Leipzig 1895
New Sounds - A Collection of Lyric Poems , Berlin 1897
Ahoy! German marine poetry , Berlin 1899
Greetings from poets - A selection of German poetry , Berlin 1902
The tenth muse - seals , publisher: Otto Elsner, Berlin 1905
On a wobbly grande - From the diary of a lost man
Germany Germany above all
Development limit
Forewords for life (ed.)
Hearts tones - Lyrische Antologie (Ed.)
For little people (ed.)

literature

Bern, Maximilian. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 213-224.
Arthur Schnitzler: Youth in Vienna. An autobiography . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 132, ISBN 3-596220-68-8

Web links

Wikisource: Maximilian Bern - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Maximilian Bern in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Maxililian Bern in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

^ Project Gutenberg-DE : Life and Works of Maximilian Bern , in: Killy Literature Lexicon
^ Marianne Jacob: The beginnings of bibliographical presentation of the German literature of the 19th century , dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree, text passage on Maximilian Bern, pp. 55–58
↑ Maximilian Bern: Why? , in: Heidenröslein - Lieder von Liebeslust und Frühlingfreud´ , Stuttgart 1887, printed and published by Greiner & Pfeiffer , p. 102
↑ Maximilian Bern: Seven poems by the author Maximilian Bern , on: Aphorismen.de
^ Frederick Taylor: The Downfall of Money. Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class - A Cautionary History . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2013; German: The fall of money in the Weimar Republic and the birth of a German trauma. Siedler, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0011-3 .
↑ Lisa Marie Kaus: How the government forces us to invest in air businesses. Article from March 15, 2019 on achgut.com.

personal data
SURNAME	Bern, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kherson
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1923
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Project Gutenberg-DE : Life and Works of Maximilian Bern , in: Killy Literature Lexicon

[2] Marianne Jacob: The beginnings of bibliographical presentation of the German literature of the 19th century , dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree, text passage on Maximilian Bern, pp. 55–58

[3] Maximilian Bern: Why? , in: Heidenröslein - Lieder von Liebeslust und Frühlingfreud´ , Stuttgart 1887, printed and published by Greiner & Pfeiffer , p. 102

[4] Maximilian Bern: Seven poems by the author Maximilian Bern , on: Aphorismen.de

[5] Frederick Taylor: The Downfall of Money. Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class - A Cautionary History . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2013; German: The fall of money in the Weimar Republic and the birth of a German trauma. Siedler, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0011-3 .

[6] Lisa Marie Kaus: How the government forces us to invest in air businesses. Article from March 15, 2019 on achgut.com.