Oscar Blumenthal

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Oscar Blumenthal (around 1905)
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Set design from Die Fee Caprice by Oscar Blumenthal, performed in 1901 in the Lessing Theater in Berlin.

Oscar Blumenthal , also Oskar Blumenthal (born March 13, 1852 in Berlin ; † April 24, 1917 there ) was a German writer , critic and playwright.

Author and critic

Blumenthal began studying philology in 1869 and completed his doctorate in 1875 on the poet Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836). phil., whose collected works and his manuscript estate he edited at the same time.

From 1874 he was also the editor and editor of the magazine Deutsche Dichterhalle and from 1875 of the new monthly books for poetry and criticism . From 1875 to 1887 he worked as a feature editor for the Berliner Tageblatt . During this time he established his reputation as a feared theater critic: Because of the harshness of his reviews, he was also called "bloody Oskar". From 1888 to 1897 he was director of the Lessing Theater in Berlin, which he founded . From 1894 to 1895 he also directed the Berlin theater .

Along with Gustav Kadelburg he wrote several comedies , including during a summer stay in 1896 in the Villa Blumenthal near Bad Ischl the play The White Horse Inn , the successful eponymous operetta by Ralph Benatzky served from 1930 as a template.

Blumenthal was married to Marie Franke. He died just a few weeks after her on April 24, 1917. His grave is in the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery . Streets in four Berlin districts were named after him.

Chess composition

Blumenthal was a chess player and chess composer who in 1902 introduced the term miniature for a chess composition with a maximum of seven pieces.

From the period from 1871 onwards, 95 miniatures by Oscar Blumenthal are known. He published them mainly in German weekly chess . In 1902 he published a popular collection of chess miniatures , which was followed up a year later. As the creator of the term “ miniature ” , he remained important for chess composition .

The following is an early work with a sacrificial key .

Oscar Blumenthal
chess newspaper of the Berlin Chess Society , 1871
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Mate in 2 moves

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Solution:

1. Nb4 – d5 Zugzwang
1.… Kc4xd5 2. Bg6 – f7 ideal mate
1.… c6xd5 2. Bg6 – d3 pattern mate
1.… Kc4 – b5 2. Bg6 – d3 mate
1.… c6 – c5 2. Qa3– d3 matt

Short poems (examples)

It's an ugly ailment
when people speak like the books.
But
books that speak like people are rich and fruitful for everyone !

It’s a lot of wealth
that means that poverty does not disgrace anyone.
At the full table, the gourmets teach
how salt and bread keep the cheeks fresh.
The pigeons coo from the edge of the roof:
"Better take the sparrow in your hand!" ...
And the stupid took the majority decision
that the wiser must always give in.

Opera often
causes the same grief The sound work as the text poem:
The poetry stimulates the desire for slumber, but
the music does not allow it.

Whoever strives for the benefit,
probably believes that he will live forever,
Otherwise he would be puzzled by the question:
On the last day, where is the benefit?

Works (selection)

  • Christian Dietrich Grabbe's entire works and handwritten estate: first critical total edition . Four volumes, Meyer, Detmold 1874; Grote, Berlin 1875.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Grabbe. From unprinted sources . Dissertation, Rostock 1875.
  • All kinds of naughtiness . Verlag Ernst Julius Günther, Leipzig 1875.
  • From the hundredth to the thousandth. Sketches . Verlag Ernst Julius Günther, Leipzig 1876.
  • Mixed company. Cheerful chats . Verlag Ernst Julius Günther, Leipzig, 1877.
  • Paula's secret . Dramatic joke, Ernst Julius Günther Verlag, Leipzig 1878.
  • On the scale. A war of springs . Verlag Ernst Julius Günther, Leipzig 1878.
  • Operations . Schwank, Berlin 1879.
  • We MPs . Comedy, Berlin 1879.
  • For dessert. Chatting . Bern & Leipzig, 1880.
  • The devil rocks . Schwank, Berlin 1880.
  • The philosophy of the unconscious . Comedy, Altenburg, around 1880.
  • Out of the blue. Collected Epigrams . Bern 1880.
  • For nothing . Comedy, Berlin 1881.
  • From the mockers bench. All sorts of glosses . Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1884.
  • The trial arrow. Comedy in four acts. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1884.
  • A drop of poison . Drama, Berlin 1885.
  • Theatrical impressions . Hofmann & Comp., Berlin 1885.
  • The big bell . Comedy, Berlin 1885.
  • Stroll letters. Cheerful and grilled . Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1886.
  • The black veil . Drama, 1887.
  • Sincerities . Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1887.
  • Anton Antony . Comedy, Berlin 1887.
  • Cyprienne . Comedy, Leipzig 1887.
  • The onlooker . Comedy, Berlin 1889.
  • The second face . Comedy, 1890.
  • Juliette . Drama, Berlin 1890.
  • Abu Seid . Comedy, 1890.
  • Wallflower . Schwank, Berlin 1893.
  • Two coats of arms . Schwank, Berlin 1894.
  • Countess Fritzi . Comedy, 1895.
  • The multiplication table . Drama, Berlin 1896.
  • Collected Epigrams . Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1898.
  • The fairy Caprice . Comedy, 1901.
  • When do we age . One-act play, 1903.
  • The dead lion . Drama, Berlin 1904.
  • The oath of loyalty . Comedy, 1905.
  • Satirical courses . Berlin 1905.
  • Between yes and no . Comedy, Berlin 1907.
  • A woman's confession and other things . Berlin 1908.
  • The bad reputation . A rococo joke, 1909.
  • An armed conflict . Comedy, 1912.
  • Wave rings . Georg Stilke Verlag, Berlin 1912.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg : The big city air . Varies in 4 acts. Bloch, Berlin 1891.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: The Orient Reise . Schwank, 1892.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: Hans Huckebein . Schwank, 1897.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: In the white Rößl . Comedy, 1898.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: On the sunny side . Comedy, 1898.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: When I came back . Comedy, 1899.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: The stowaway . Comedy, 1902.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: The theater village . Comedy, 1903.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: The last spark . Comedy, 1907.
  • with Gustav Kadelburg: The door into the open . Comedy, 1908.
  • with Max Bernstein : Mathias Gollinger . Comedy, 1906.
  • with Max Bernstein: The great break , comedy, 1915.
  • with Leopold Schmidt: The happy island , Singspiel, 1917.
  • Chess miniatures. A collection of problems. Veit & Comp. Leipzig 1902 ( PDF file; 551 kB ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Chess miniatures. New episode. Veit & Comp. Leipzig 1903 ( PDF file; 242 kB ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))

literature

Web links

Individual references and sources

  1. knerger.de: The grave of Oscar Blumenthal
  2. Manfred Zucker: Great German Problem Master (14) . In: Schach , No. 5, 1994, p. 76