Oscar Wagner

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Oscar Wagner, 1906.

Oscar Wagner (born August 9, 1851 in Crossen an der Oder ; † 1916 ) was a German playwright , director , actor , writer and illustrator .

Life

He attended the grammar school in Görlitz . His father, a telegraph operator, was transferred to Berlin, where Heinrich Brugsch trained Oscar Wagner to be a draftsman of Egyptian antiquities. He was offered a job as a draftsman at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , but the father resisted his son's travel and career plans, whereupon he tried his luck as an actor. He returned to drawing and writing, however, and lived in Düsseldorf for a while until he returned to Berlin, where he again drew hieroglyphs with Heinrich Brugsch and published dramatic and prosaic works. He was married to a daughter of Heinrich Brugsch. As a draftsman he made contributions to books by Karl von Holtei and Julius Stinde .

Dramatic works

  • The dry dwellers. Parodistic-realistic process in an elevator. Reclam, Leipzig 1893. (Universal Library 3054)
  • The Dussel (Nulpus). Parodistic-naturalistic-realistic process in the attic. Reclam, Leipzig 1893. (Universal Library 3069)
  • Fiebig siblings. Folk piece in 3 acts. Decision, Berlin 1897.
  • Two from the Reichstag or one liberal. Schwank in one act. Danner, Mühlhausen 1898.
  • In the station keeper's house. Acting in one act. Reclam, Leipzig 1904. (Universal Library 4616)
  • Herr von Bredow's trousers. Patriotic drama in 4 acts based on Willibald Alexis. Berliner Theater-Verlag, Berlin 1910.
  • The silent porter. Berlin life picture with singing in an elevator. Reclam, Leipzig 1910. (Universal Library 3435) ( digitized version )

Prose works

  • Make up. From d. Diary e. Wandering mimes. Humoresques. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1895.
  • Ptah-hôtep. About dealing with people or an ancient Egyptian etiquette. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1898.
  • Lispel-Lene. Novel from the life of a comedian. Steinitz, Berlin 1898.
  • Marie Seebach . From her wandering life. Witnessed and shared by Oscar Wagner. In: Stage and World. 1, 1898/1899, p. 19.
  • Berlin gypsies. A true story from life. Regenhardt, Berlin 1903.
  • The vagabond's daughter. From the diary of an actress. With illustrations by the author. Hillger, Berlin / Leipzig 1912.

literature

  • Johannes Wagner: Oscar Wagner - an almost forgotten Berlin writer. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. 18, 1967.
  • Richard Wrede and Hans von Reinfels (eds.): The spiritual Berlin. An encyclopedia of intellectual life in Berlin. Storm, Berlin 1897, Volume 1, pp. 553-554.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers. 6th edition 1913, Volume 7, p. 309
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, director, actor, writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Crossing the Oder
DATE OF DEATH 1916