Paul Leppin

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Paul Leppin (born November 27, 1878 in Prague ; † April 10, 1945 there ) was a German-speaking Prague writer .

Life

Paul Leppin came from a poor background. Although he attended grammar school until he graduated from high school , he was then forced to take a job at the Prague Post and Telegraph Directorate. He worked as a civil servant until his early retirement in 1928 . In addition to this bourgeois existence, he began writing at an early age. At the turn of the century, Leppin, who u. a. was friends with Victor Hadwiger , Gustav Meyrink , Richard Dehmel and Else Lasker-Schüler , as one of the protagonists of the literary movement " Young Prague " and also maintained close relationships with Czech authors. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo and suffered a stroke after his release . Leppin died of the long-term effects of a syphilis disease.

Leppin's literary work includes novels , short stories , poems and plays . His eccentric prose works were often scandalous because of their permissive treatment of erotic topics; in his late poetry , in which he mainly deals with his hometown Prague , the author found a more balanced and melancholy tone.

Award

Works

First editions
Daniel Jesus. Jacques Hegner, Berlin / Leipzig 1905. Original edition
  • The doors of life. Novel. Prague 1901.
  • Bells that ring in the dark. Poems. Cologne 1903.
  • Daniel Jesus. A novel. Hegner, Berlin and Leipzig. 1905. 2nd edition Verlag Ed. Strache, 1919. New edition: Elfenbein Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932245-47-4 (edited and with an afterword by Angela Reinthal and Dierk Hoffmann).
  • The mountain of salvation. The seven chapters of a miracle. Novel. Oesterheld, Berlin 1908.
  • Severin's walk into the darkness. Munich 1914. Cover by Richard Teschner New editions:
    • Peter Selinka Verlag, 1988.
    • Vitalis Verlag, 1998.
    • Edition Atelier, 2015 ( Library of the Night series , edited and commented by Thomas Ballhausen ).
    • Ed. V. Julia Hadwiger and Dirk Hoffmann. Commentary with origins and publication history, all original illustrations by Richard Teschner and a city map of Old Prague with detailed explanations and memories of Paul Leppin by Hugo Rokyta. Vitalis Verlag, Prague 2018. ISBN 978-3-89919-459-3 .
  • Keeper of Joy. A novel. Deutsch-Oesterreichischer Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1918. New edition: SSI, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-9521172-3-1 .
  • Venus going astray. On the cultural history of eroticism. Essays. Title page and drawings by Eddy Smith. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg and Berlin 1920.
  • The paradise of others. Novellas. Heris, Reichenberg and Prague 1921.
  • The colorful lamp. Old and new poems. The Bookroom, Prague 1928.
  • The blue circus. Drama 1924. Ms. Khol, Prague 1928.
  • Speech of the child murderer before the Last Judgment. Die Bücherstube, Prague 1928. New edition: Ludewig Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-9805851-6-6 .
  • The golem's grandson. Acting 1934.
  • Spring around 1900. Prague stories. Prague and Brno, German book communities in the Czechoslovak Republic, 1936.
  • Prague Rhapsody. A. Werner, Prague 1938. New edition in one volume: Vitalis Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89919-029-7 .
    • 1. Chiaroscuro stanzas. Poems.
    • 2. The mother's face. Short prose with an autobiography of the poet.
  • Bunterbart sells ghosts. Acting 1938.
  • Blue guest. Roman, Langen-Müller, Munich 1984 (posthumously).
editor
  • Spring - modern leaflets. Stivín, Prague 1900 f., ZDB -ID 272471-6 (publication after issue 4 discontinued).
  • We - German papers for the arts. Prague 1906, ZDB -ID 272807-2 (publication after issue 2 discontinued).
Work and collective editions
  • The prisoner. Poems by an old man. Series Forgotten Authors of the Modern Age. Wins 1988.
  • The golem's grandson. An old Prague rhapsody. 1984 (poems, little prose, the grandson of the golem , Daniel Jesus , Severin's walk into the darkness , blue guest ; not proven).
  • Old Prague walks. Edited by Dirk O. Hoffmann. Selinka, Ravensburg 1990, ISBN 3-926532-26-2 .
  • 13 Chapter love from hell. Work edition. SSI, Zurich.
    • Volume 1: Selection 1900–1944. 2007, ISBN 978-3-9521172-1-7 (contains an overview of works with, inter alia, first edition Der Enkel des Golem. Drama, with stage designs by Hugo Steiner-Prag; first edition of the last novel Monika ; reprinted speech of the child murderer before the Last Judgment ).
  • Prague . [ Spring around 1900. Prague Stories (1936)], ed. by Martin A. Völker , Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.

literature

  • Constanze Derham: Décadence and Visuality in three of Paul Leppin's novels: Daniel Jesus, Severin's Walk into Darkness and Blue Guest. epubli, Berlin 2017 (Dissertation University of Leipzig 2017) ISBN 978-3-7450-6191-8 .
  • Susanne Christine Fritz: Paul Leppin's picture of the city of Prague. Dissertation University of Tübingen 1995.
  • Havel:  Leppin Paul. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 149.
  • Dirk O. Hoffmann: Paul Leppin. A sketch with a first bibliography of the works and letters. Bouvier, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3416014480 .
  • Dirk O. Hoffmann: Paul Leppin. A contribution to German literature in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. 5 vols. Dissertation University of Basel 1973. Partial reprint: Bönecke-Druck, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1973.
    • Vol. 1: Paul Leppin's life and work at a glance.
    • Vol. 2: Notes.
    • Vol. 3: Bibliography of Works and Letters.
    • Vol. 4: Appendix.
    • Vol. 5: Complete register.
  • Dirk O. Hoffmann:  Leppin, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peter Mario Kreuter: "It was quiet on Karlsplatze." The staging of Prague as a place of the occult by Leo Perutz and Paul Leppin. In: Wolfgang Müller-Funk / Christa Agnes Tuczay (ed.): Fascination of the occult. Discourses on the supernatural. Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto 2008, pp. 187-200.
  • Jürgen Serke : Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , pp. 392-398.
  • Kai Themel: Sexuality in the novel Daniel Jesus by Paul Leppin. Diploma thesis University of Vienna 2009, full text .

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personal data
SURNAME Leppin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking Prague writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1945
Place of death Prague