Paul Goldmann

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Paul Goldmann (born January 31, 1865 in Breslau , † September 25, 1935 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , publicist , travel writer , theater critic , translator and author of theater essays and small plays .

Life

Paul Goldmann was the son of the businessman Gustav Goldmann and of Clementine geb. Mamroth. He studied law in Wroclaw and worked as a journalist shortly after receiving his doctorate. Together with his uncle, the journalist Dr. Fedor Mamroth , he headed the Viennese magazine An der Schönen Blauen Donau . Goldmann was a fan of modern drama and stood up for authors like Arthur Schnitzler , with whom he corresponded actively, the close friends Richard Beer-Hofmann and Hugo von Hofmannsthal , whom he helped to get early publications. Schnitzler wrote of a meeting with Goldmann in 1889:

“I had accepted Doctor Mamroth's invitation to visit the editorial office and on this occasion met his representative and nephew, the writer of that friendly letter of acceptance, Doctor Paul Goldmann, a twenty-four-year-old, amiable gentleman in a loden skirt and nightgown with tassels , stout, a little hunchbacked, with curly hair and with bright, beautiful, blue eyes. We immediately understood each other very well, had the same views on most things in life and art. "

In Bernhard Reich's memoirs you can read about Paul Goldmann:

“The critic of the ' Neue Freie Presse' wrote the German of the Viennese columnists, who specialized in wit and urbane chat. In my mind Goldmann existed as a beau with a stab of dandy. A decade later, in a company, I saw an overgrown man of medium height who was doing conspicuously to make his hump inconspicuous. The woman of the house introduced him - Mr. Paul Goldmann. "

- Bernhard Reich : In a race against time

Goldmann is part of the Viennese Modernism and the Jung Wien district . He worked as an external employee of the Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung . From 1890 to 1892 he was a member of the editorial association of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna.

Goldmann was with the art patron Jenny Mautner (1856–1938) and her husband, the industrialist Isidor Mautner (1852–1930). He was acquainted with the journalist and writer Julius Bauer (1853-1941) and the writer and cultural historian Hermine Cloeter (1879-1970).

From 1892–1902 he worked as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Brussels, Paris and China. In 1896, because of the Dreyfus affair, there was a pistol duel between him and the French anti-Semitic journalist Lucien Millevoye , which ended lightly.

From 1902 he wrote as a theater correspondent for the Wiener Neue Freie Presse in Paris and especially in Berlin. He dealt with the directorial work of Otto Brahms and partly very critically with those of Max Reinhardt . On August 4, 1908, he married Eva Maria Fränkel, formerly Kobler, in Vienna (born Vienna, October 27, 1877, died November 2, 1937, suicide). The Berlin-born daughter Franziska (born May 29, 1911) left Vienna for Milan on March 29, 1938. She emigrated to Rio de Janeiro at the end of 1940 , where she died in 1963.

In the First World War was Goldmann war correspondent . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1933 and had to return to Vienna.

Works

  • A Summer in China: Travel Pictures , 1899.
  • One shouldn't conspire , comedy in three acts by Alfred de Musset . German v. Paul Goldmann, 1902.
  • The "new direction": polemical essays on Berlin theater performances , 1903.
  • From the dramatic maze: polemical essays on Berlin theater performances , 1905.
  • On the decline of the German stage: polemical essays on Berlin theater performances , 1908.
  • Pieces of literature and production direction: polemical essays on Berlin theater performances , 1910.
  • At General Field Marshal von Hindenburg's: An Evening at Headquarters , 1914.
  • From Lille to Brussels: pictures from d. western positions u. Fighting d. German Army , 1915.
  • Conversations with Hindenburg , 1916.
  • The ultimatum , 1922.
  • The fall of Count Reichenbach , 1923.
  • The prisoner , 1923.

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literature

  • Karl Kraus: How Hindenburg and Ludendorff became pacifists under Paul Goldmann's influence. In: glosses, essays, lectures, 1917, textlog .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Youth in Vienna , ed. by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler, Vienna, Munich, Zurich 1968, p. 319f. Zeno
  2. ↑ Berlin 1970, p. 99
  3. ↑ Article Paul Goldmann. In: Killy Literaturlexikon, Vol. 4: Fri-Hap, 2nd edition Berlin 2009, p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1935
Place of death Vienna