Paul Landau

Paul Landau (born August 17, 1880 in Namslau , Silesia , † March 14, 1951 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was a German-Israeli journalist and writer .

Life

Landau first studied law , then history , literature and art history in Munich , Leipzig and Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1904. phil. received his doctorate. From 1905 he worked for Zeitungskorrespondenz Kühl in Berlin , was co-owner and editor of the correspondence "Welt und Wissen" (World and Knowledge) from 1909 and wrote numerous articles on literature, art, theater and cultural history, which were adopted by major German newspapers. He was also a theater critic for the "Dresdner Nachrichten" and an art critic for the "Berliner Börsenzeitung". In 1916 he became section head in the press office of the foreign department of the Supreme Army Command in Berlin. From 1921 Landau worked for the cultural magazine "Faust", from 1923 to 1925 as publisher and editor.

Two years after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Literature on March 7, 1935 for racist reasons . He then emigrated to Palestine , where he also worked as a journalist.

In addition to the biographies of Daniel Chodowiecki (1923) and Hans Sachs (1924), he wrote, among other things, writings on the history of garden culture ( Gartenglück von Then , 1926).

literature

Wolfgang Martens: Landau, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 486 f. ( Digitized version ).
Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors, Vol. 15, Munich 2007

Web link

Literature by and about Paul Landau in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 350.

personal data
SURNAME	Landau, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Namslau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1951
Place of death	Tel Aviv , Israel

[1] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 350.