Otto Neumann-Hofer

Otto Neumann-Hofer

Gilbert Otto Neumann-Hofer (born February 4, 1857 in Lappienen , † April 14, 1941 in Detmold ) was a German journalist, writer, theater director and art critic.

Life

The magazine for literature with Otto Neumann-Hofer as co-editor

Otto Neumann-Hofer was born as the son of a landowner in Lappienen in East Prussia. The ancestors were Salzburg exiles . He attended the Tilsiter secondary school . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin, new philology and philosophy. In 1881 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. During his studies in Berlin, Neumann-Hofer made his first attempts at writing, was an employee and from 1881 also editor of the weekly newspaper Der Reichsfreund . In the years 1884 to 1886 he took on an editorial position at the Deutsches Montagsblatt and in 1888 was co-founder of the Litterarian Society in Berlin together with Hermann Sudermann and Friedrich Spielhagen . He worked as a feature editor and theater critic for the Berliner Tageblatt from 1890 to 1896.

From 1890 Neumann-Hofer was the successor to Willy Freiherr von Reiswitz, the editor in charge of the magazine for literature . Together with Fritz Mauthner he was editor of the magazine in 1891 until Rudolf Steiner replaced him in July 1897 . At the same time in 1891 he took over the editor of the world of novels .

From 1897 to 1905 Neumann-Hofer was director of the Lessing Theater in Berlin. He founded the German Opera House in Charlottenburg in 1912 and was its director until 1919. Foreign trips in 1919 also took him to Africa, in the same year he was a correspondent for German newspapers in Paris. From 1920 to 1924 he was head of a theater company in Switzerland.

When Otto Neumann-Hofer retired in 1924, he moved to Detmold, where his brother Adolf Neumann-Hofer worked as a state councilor and publisher of the Lippische Landes-Zeitung (until 1920). In Detmold, Neumann-Hofer was active in the Detmold Theater Association, head of the Lippe State Conservatory and leader of the Association for Germanness Abroad . He also worked as a translator and writer, his publications were made under his own name and under the pseudonyms Otto Gilbert , Diplomaticus , Diotima , Gilbert Hofer , Fritz Kirchberg and Wolfgang Förster .

Otto Neumann-Hofer married Annie Bock in 1891 . The marriage ended in divorce in 1905. The following year he married the actress Maria Eisenhut, who was born in Weimar in 1873 . Like his brother left-wing liberal, he was a candidate for the German State Party in the Lippe state parliament in 1933 . He died in Detmold at the age of 84.

Web links

• Biography at the Lippische Landesbibliothek
• Reich Chancellery files. Weimar Republic: Biography Neumann-Hofer, Gilbert Otto on bundesarchiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Christoph Knüppel (Ed.): Gustav Landauer: Letters and Diaries 1884–1900 . tape 2 . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0456-8 , p. 799–800 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ Horst-Günter Benkmann: Ways and Work: Salzburg Emigrants and Their Descendants . Salzburg Association, Bielefeld 1988, p. 152-153 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 7 . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 428 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ Willi Schramm: The musical life in Detmold . In: Natural and Historical Association for the State of Lippe (ed.): History of the City of Detmold (=  special publications of the Natural and Historical Association for the State of Lippe . Volume 10 ). Maximilian-Verlag, Detmold 1953, p. 319 .
5. ↑ Lippischer Calendar, 1933
6. ↑ Death register for the registry office Stadt Detmold DT registry offices No. 373 Entry No. 167