Moritz Heimann

Moritz Heimann, drawing by Emil Orlik

Moritz Heimann (born July 19, 1868 in Werder near Rehfelde in the Mark Brandenburg region ; died September 22, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German writer , critic and editor .

Life

Moritz Heimann grew up in Kagel an der Löcknitz , where his parents ran a general store. After finishing school, he studied philosophy and literature in Berlin from 1886 to 1890 .

In 1895, through Otto Brahm and Gerhart Hauptmann , he joined the S. Fischer Verlag , which he was to serve for almost thirty years, initially as an editor and a little later as a lecturer ; Heimann had a significant impact on the job that was emerging at this time. As part of this activity, he worked for writers such as Wilhelm Lehmann , Oskar Loerke , Jakob Wassermann , Hermann Stehr and Emil Strauss . He also worked as a journalist; he wrote for the Neue Deutsche Rundschau , Die Weltbühne and Die Zeit .

Gravestone in Berlin-Weißensee

He died shortly after leaving Fischer-Verlag in 1925 due to illness from a kidney disease. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

His literary work mainly includes essays , dramas and novels , alongside aphorisms and a few poems . Moritz Heimann used the pseudonyms Hans Pauli and Tobias Fischer at times .

He was married to Gertrud Heimann (1872–1951), a photographer and sister of Margarete , the wife of Gerhart Hauptmann .

Works (selection)

prose

• Prosaic writings, 1918 (3 volumes)
• Legacy writings, 1925 (edited by O. Loerke)

Dramas

• The love school
• Akiba's Wife, 1922 (played by the Habima Theater)
• Armand Carrel

tragedies

• The Enemy and the Brother, 1911

Comedies

• The fear of women, 1896
• Joachim von Brandt

libretto

• The imp. Opera in one act

Novellas

• Laurent Follier's suicide
• Winter web, 1921
• Mr. Tuller's respect
• The Fylgja
• The futile message
• The Tobias vase
• The last faint
• Dr. Wislizenus
• Walks (in the form of a novella)
• The apparition of the father
• The funeral in November
• One for all

Essays

• A poet - a seer. Gerhart Hauptmann in honor

Compilations

• The Mark, where it is most market-friendly : Novellas and reflections (Märkischer Dichtergarten). Edited and with an afterward by Günter de Bruyn . 1st edition. Morgenbuch-Verl., Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-371-00396-5 .
• The truth doesn't lie in the middle : essays. [With an afterword by Wilhelm Lehmann ]. Frankfurt a. M., S. Fischer, 1966.

literature

• Daniel Hoffmann : Article Heimann, Moritz. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01682-X , pp. 195ff.
• Ernst Stein:  Heimann, Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 273 ( digitized version ).
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki : Moritz Heimann - The dreaming practitioner. In: Die Anwälte der Literatur dtv 1996, pp. 144–166
• Heimann, Moritz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 10: Güde – Hein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22690-X , pp. 356-370.

Web links

Wikisource: Moritz Heimann  - sources and full texts

Wikiquote: Moritz Heimann  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Moritz Heimann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Moritz Heimann in the Gutenberg-DE project