Philipp Langmann

Philipp Langmann (photography by Wenzl Weis , Vienna, before 1916)

Philipp Langmann (born February 5, 1862 in Brno , Austrian Empire ; died May 22, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Philipp Langmann attended secondary school in Brno, studied chemical technology at the German Technical University in Brno and was then employed there as a scholarship holder. He went into private industry as a chemist and rose to factory manager in 1890. From 1891 on he was an official of the workers' accident insurance company in Brno and also worked as a writer. From 1901 he lived as a freelance writer in Vienna.

Langmann only had success with his first drama “Bartel Turaser” in 1897 on stage, with audiences and critics, and the play was also translated into English , for example by Mark Twain . Langmann received the Grillparzer Prize . The next few years, however, his dramas were rejected because Langmann was still considered a naturalist and thus outdated. He suffered material hardship because he did not succeed in at least getting back into a job.

Works (selection)

• Realistic narratives . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1895
• Life and music . Novel. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1904
• Experiences of a hiker . Stories. Vienna: German-Austrian publishing house, 1911

Novellas

• Working life . Leipzig: Friedrich, 1893
• A young man from 1895 . Leipzig, 1895
• Lost calls . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1899
• Effect of woman . Munich: Georg Müller, 1908
• The act of Gerenus . Vienna: Rikola, 1923
• A stranger . Vienna: Rikola, 1923

Dramas

• Bartel Turaser . Leipzig: Friese, 1897
• The four winners . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1898
• Our Tedaldo . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1899
• Gertrud Antleß . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1900
• Corporal Stöhr . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1901
• The heart mask . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1902
• Gerwin's love death . Stuttgart: Cotta, 1903
• Anna from Ridell . Berlin: S. Fischer, 1905
• Princess of Trebizond . Munich, 1909
• Governor of Zealand . Vienna: German-Austrian publishing house, 1911

literature

• Renate Heuer (ed.): Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 15, Munich: Saur 2007, pp. 152–159
• Joachim Linder: Langmann, Philipp , in: Killy Literaturlexikon , Volume 7, 2010, p. 229
• Valerie Hanus:  Langmann_Philipp_1862_1931. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 11 f. (Direct links on p. 11 , p. 12 ).
• Valerie Hanus:  Langmann, Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 609 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Langmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Philipp Langmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat