Paul Wiegler

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Paul Wiegler (born September 15, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 23, 1949 in East Berlin ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Paul Wiegler was the son of a high school teacher. He studied German , philosophy and history , but switched to journalism early on . He worked as an editor and theater critic in various German cities and wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt , the Prague Bohemia and the Schaubühne , among others .

From 1913 to 1925 Wiegler was head of the novel department at Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . After that he worked primarily as an essayist . Even during the Third Reich , Wiegler was able to continue publishing thanks to his neutral attitude towards the ruling regime. After the end of the Second World War, Wiegler went to East Berlin and worked there as deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Nacht-Express and later as an editor at the newly founded Aufbau-Verlag . In addition, he was one of the founders of the Kulturbund der GDR and the literary magazine Sinn und Form .

Paul Wiegler's work consists of literary-historical works with a focus on German and French literary history , as well as historical, cultural-historical and biographical essays . In his novel Das Haus an der Moldau , the author describes the final phase and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy using the example of a Prague lawyer. Paul Wiegler's work as a translator of French classics into German is also important.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Works

  • History of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century , Berlin 1901 (together with Karl Julius Duboc)
  • French rebels , Berlin 1904
  • Maximilian Harden , Charlottenburg 1908
  • History of world literature , Berlin 1914
  • Figures , Leipzig 1916
  • Anatole France , Munich 1920
  • Wallenstein , Berlin 1920
  • World literature in the twentieth century , Berlin 1922 (together with Richard Moritz Meyer)
  • The great love. How they died , Hellerau 1926
  • Wilhelm the First , Hellerau near Dresden 1927
  • The Antichrist , Hellerau near Dresden 1928
  • History of German literature hu: A világirodalom története (Wiegler) , Berlin
    • 1. From the Gothic to Goethe's death , 1930
    • 2. From Romanticism to the Present , 1930
  • The house on the Moldau , Berlin 1934
    • New edition with an afterword by Hans J. Schütz. Insel Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-33037-2 .
  • Fates and Crimes , Berlin 1935
  • Kings of France , Berlin 1936
  • Traitors and conspirators , Berlin 1937
  • Glory and decline of the Bourbons , Berlin 1938
  • Josef Kainz , Berlin 1941
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Berlin 1946
  • Ludwig van Beethoven , Berlin 1946
  • Ghosts , Baden-Baden 1947
  • Daily run of the immortals , Munich 1950

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personal data
SURNAME Wiegler, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1949
Place of death Berlin