Paul Lindau

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Paul Lindau

Paul Lindau (born June 3, 1839 in Magdeburg , † January 31, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German writer , journalist and theater director .

Life

Paul Lindau was the son of the doctor and later Justice Commissioner Carl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau, who from Judaism to Protestantism convert born was, and Henriette Bernadine Müller in Magdeburg. He had the older siblings Anna , Salonnière , writer and translator and the writer and diplomat Rudolf . In 1847 the family moved to Berlin and Paul attended the Dorotheenstädtische Realgymnasium. He then studied philosophy and literary history in Halle , Leipzig and Berlin from 1857 to 1859 .

He then went to Paris , worked on a dissertation on Molière and met Victorien Sardou , Émile Augier and Alexandre Dumas the Elder. J. , whose works he later translated into German.

After his return he was in charge of the Düsseldorfer Zeitung in 1864/65 , the Elberfelder Zeitung in 1866/69 , the Neue Blatt ( Leipzig ) in 1870 and the Bazaar in Berlin. In 1871 he moved to the capital of the Reich and founded the weekly Die Gegenwart there , which he headed until 1881. In 1877 he called the monthly North and South a magazine to life, which the Deutsche Rundschau of Julius Rodenberg prepared much competition. Lindau was able to win almost all the prominent authors of his time for its two periodicals, such as Berthold Auerbach , Theodor Fontane , Karl Gutzkow , Paul Heyse , Friedrich Schrader and Gottfried Keller . He published North and South until 1904.

In addition, Lindau devoted himself intensively to the theater. In 1895 he was appointed director of the court theater in Meiningen , which he headed until his resignation in 1899. When he returned to Berlin, he was director of the Berlin theater from 1900 to 1903 . Between 1909 and 1917 Lindau was dramaturge at the Royal Theater . He experimented early on with the artistic possibilities of film . He wrote on his same spectacle the screenplay for the film The Other with Albert Bassermann in the lead role. Max Mack directed this film, which is considered to be the first German auteur film and helped the new medium artistically to break through.

Lindau celebrated great audiences as a playwright between 1870 and 1880, especially with his second play "Maria und Magdalena" . He also had a broad readership as a novelist - here especially with his Berlin (1886–1888) novel cycle - and as a travel writer.

In the autumn of 1873 he married Anna Kalisch (1853-1919), a daughter of the writer and Kladderadatsch journalist David Kalisch, in Berlin . He had a son, Hans Lindau.

Lindau was at times considered the pope of criticism in Berlin, but was also at times violently attacked because of an affair with the actress Elsa von Schabelsky . He also benefited from the contacts and influence of his brother Rudolf Lindau , a successful politician and publicist.

Works

  • From Veneto. A summer trip , Düsseldorf 1864. Online
  • From Paris. Contributions to the characteristics of contemporary France , Stuttgart, Kröner 1865. Online
  • (Anonymous) Harmless letters from a German small town dweller . 2 vols. Leipzig, Payne 1870–1871. ( Digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • Molière. A supplement to the biography of the poet from his works , Diss. Rostock 1871. Online
  • Literary recklessness. Columnist and polemical essays . Leipzig, Barth 1872. Online
  • Marion , Drama, Elberfeld, Lucas (1873). On-line
  • Diana , drama, Leipzig, butcher a. Wittig 1873. Online
  • Pleasure trips. Occasional Records , 1875. Online
  • Collected Essays. Contributions to the literary history of the present , 1875. Online
  • Aunt Therese , Schauspiel, Berlin, Stilke 1875. Online
  • A success , comedy, Berlin, Bloch 1875
  • The apple of contention , Schwank, Leipzig, Teubner 1875
  • Sober letters from Bayreuth , Breslau, Schottlaender 1876. Online
  • Johannistrieb , Schauspiel, Leipzig, Teubner, 1877. Online
  • Superfluous letters to a friend. Collected feature pages , Breslau, Schottlaender 1877. Online
  • Alfred de Musset , Berlin, Hofmann 1877. Online
  • Shameful work , acting, Berlin, Freund u. Jeckel 1881
  • From literary France. Breslau, Schottlaender 1882
  • Ferdinand Lassalle's last speech. A personal memory. Breslau, Schottlaender 1882. Online
  • The assassination of the advocate Bernays . Breslau, Schottlaender 1883 ( online edition on EBLOX )
  • Toggenburg and other stories. Breslau: S. Schottlaender 1883
  • From the new World. Letters from the Eastern and Western United States. Berlin, Salomon 1885. Online
  • In flight. Occasional records. Leipzig, Dürselen (1886) ( digitized 2nd edition )
  • Berlin . 1st - 3rd Line. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1886–1888.
  • The two Leonors , comedy, Breslau 1888
  • Whimsical people. Little stories. Wroclaw 1888.
  • Interesting cases. Criminal trials from the most recent times. Breslau, Schottlaender 1888
  • From the Orient. Fleeting records. Breslau, Schottlaender 1890. Online
  • Die Sonne , Schauspiel, Berlin, decision 1891
  • Father Adrian and Other Stories. Breslau, Schles. Buchdr., Kunst- u. Verl.-Anst. 1893
  • Old and new from the New World. A trip through the United States and Mexico . 2 vols. Berlin, Duncker 1893. ( digital copy) Reprint: Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-437-1
  • Der Andere , Schauspiel, New York, Goldmann 1893. Online
  • Hanging moss , Roman, Breslau, Schles. Buchdr., Kunst- u. Verl.-Anst. 1893. Online
  • A yacht trip to Norway: days and nights in the mild north. Breslau, Schottlaender 1895
  • The brothers , Roman, Dresden a. a., Reissner 1896
  • Holidays in the Orient. Diary sheets from Greece, European Turkey and Asia Minor. Berlin, Fontane u. Co, 1899
  • On the west coast of Asia Minor. A summer cruise on the Aegean Sea. Berlin, General Association f. German literature 1900
  • Excursions into the criminalistic. Munich, Langen 1909. Online
  • Just memories . 2 vols. Stuttgart u. a., Cotta 1916-1917. Online Vol.1 , Vol.2

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Gotthilf Weisstein [and Richard Nathanson]: Paul Lindau, a characteristic. Stuhr, Berlin 1875
  • J. Fisahn: Paul Lindau as a critic and the theater. A contribution to the criticism of the criticism . Kaulfuß, Liegnitz 1876. (2nd edition 1879)
  • Egmont Hadlich: Paul Lindau as a dramatic poet. Critical essays . Weile, Berlin 1876. ( digitized version )
  • Albert Hahn: A man of our time, Paul Lindau . Mahlo, Berlin 1877. ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Goldschmidt: Notes on writings by Paul Lindau . Bichteler, Berlin 1878.
  • Paul Lindau and literary Judaism. A controversial sermon from the presence of Junius [d. i. Karl Franz Frohme]. Minde, Leipzig [1879] ( digitized version )
  • Ottilie Heller: Paul Lindau as a translator . Friedrich, Leipzig 1880.
  • Franz Mehring : Capital and Press. A sequel to the Lindau case . K. Brachvogel, Berlin 1891. ( digitized version )
  • Victor Klemperer : Paul Lindau. A monograph . Concordia, Berlin 1909.
  • Renate Antoni: The theater critic Paul Lindau . Univ. Diss., FU Berlin 1961.
  • Anneliese Eismann-Lichte: Paul Lindau, publicist and novelist in the early years . Univ. Diss., Münster 1981.
  • Gertraude Wilhelm:  Lindau, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 573-575 ( digitized version ).
  • Roland Berbig: Paul Lindau - a literary career. In: Peter Wruck (ed.): Literary life in Berlin. 1871-1933. Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 1987, pp. 88–125
  • Hans Manfred Bock: Imperial capital and French cultural transfer 1871-1890. Imperial capital and French cultural transfer 1871-1890. In: Etienne François / Philippe Despoix (eds.): Marianne - Germania. German-French cultural transfer in a European context 1789-1914 , Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 1998, pp. 315–332.

Web links

Commons : Paul Lindau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Paul Lindau  - Sources and full texts

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hermann Bahr : Love of the Living. Hildesheim: Borgmeyer 1925, I, 145–146.
personal data
SURNAME Lindau, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, journalist and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1919
Place of death Berlin