Maximilian Rosenberg

Maximilian Rosenberg (born October 30, 1885 in Prague , † September 14, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , writer , music and theater critic .

Life

Maximilian Rosenberg studied medicine in Prague at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and worked as a doctor in Magdeburg from 1919 to 1953. From 1953 he was chief physician for neurology and psychiatry in the former army hospital in Bad Saarow .

In literary terms he worked as a narrator and poet . In April 1919 he was one of the co-founders of the association of writers, visual artists and art lovers, initiated by the young poet Robert Seitz , Die Kugel . Association for new art and literature in Magdeburg, which primarily propagated expressionist painting and poetry as well as the then new music. Between 1917 and 1921 he published several glosses and reflections, poems and novels in Franz Pfemfert's weekly Die Aktion (1911–32), one of the most important literary and political journals of German Expressionism , which after 1917 tended very strongly to be a left-wing political war paper. After 1945, Rosenberg, who lived in Berlin from 1969 , was a member of the state board of the Volksbühne theater organization ( revived after the end of National Socialism ) .

Works

• Environment (poems), 1919 (Repr. 1973)
• The Soldier (Novella), 1919 (Repr. 1973)
• The moon forest (novella), 1946
• Sister Ludovica (novella), 1946
• The Shell (New Poems), 1948
• The last concert (a novella about Smetana), 1948