Otto Gysae

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Otto R. Gysae (born April 19, 1877 in Serkowitz ; † August 8, 1947 in Riedering ) was a German writer and publicist .

Life

Otto Gysae was the son of the factory owner Robert Gysae (born November 6, 1837 in Callies / Pomerania; † February 28, 1899 in Serkowitz; buried in the Radebeul-Ost cemetery ) and Margarethe nee. Love. His father founded the first Serkowitz industrial company in 1871 , which later became the O. Baer paint factory . His paternal ancestors came from the Prenzlau area, where they served as mayors and clergymen in the 17th century. His maternal grandmother belonged to the Oldecop family , who at the beginning of the modern era, together with the priest Johannes Oldekop, became the chaplain and secretary of the Vice Chancellor Charles V , Bishop Balthasar Merklin von Waldkirch.

After attending a grammar school in Dresden and studying law at the universities of Leipzig and Munich , Otto Gysae became a naval officer in 1897. In 1902 he turned to literature and became a freelance writer in Berlin . There he became head of the features section of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1920 . From 1923 to 1930 Otto Gysae was managing director of the Volksverband der Bücherfreunde . From 1933 he lived in Riedering in Upper Bavaria.

Gysae thematized the fight of the noble and the clumsy. So he "wrote several novels in a very cultivated, formal narrative style, in which he proves himself to be a fine observer and a good psychologist."

Publications

  • 1904: Vivienne
  • 1905: The Hellwege sisters . Novel. 1st edition 1. – 2. Td., Langen, Munich, 302 p. (New edition: VdB, Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1923, 276 p.)
  • 1906: Edele Prangen . Novel. 1st edition 1st - 2nd volume, Langen, Munich, 302 pp.
  • 1908: The silver dancer . Novel. Binding design by Thomas Theodor Heine . Langen, Munich, 254 pp.
  • 1910: Higher people . Play in three acts. Langen, Munich, 159 pp.
  • 1914: The Sufferers . Novel. Langen, Munich, 339 pp.
  • 1920: the law . Novel. 1st edition. Mosse, Berlin, 386 pp.
  • 1920: Vivienne . Novella. Hoennicke, Charlottenburg, 70 p. (Daphris-Presse, 1919–1921, Vol. 2)
  • 1923: oblique rays . From the diary of a no longer young man. Mosaik-Verlag, Berlin, 107 pp. (Mosaik - Bücher, Vol. 33)
  • 1924: settlement . Novel. Volksverband der Bücherfreunde , Berlin, (special series) 228 pp.
  • 1930: The balance of the Terborgs . Novel. Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, Berlin, (selection series) 287 pp.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otto Gysae , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/1948 of October 25, 1948, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Gysae, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gysae, Otto R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Serkowitz
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1947
Place of death Riedering