Robert Misch

Robert Misch. Photo from 1904.

Robert Misch (born February 6, 1860 in Zarczyn near Bromberg , † November 27, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German librettist and writer .

Life

As the son of a manor owner, he attended the French high school in Berlin and an alumni in Braunschweig, and from 1877 the Friedrichswerder trade school. After he had written his first tragedy ("Tarquinius Superbus"), which the Hamburg City Theater had declared impossible to perform, but talented, he decided to devote himself to poetic activity. In order to gain experience, he first turned to acting for three years and played at various stations (Halberstadt, Rudolstadt, Potsdam, St. Gallen, Amsterdam). Then he studied history, philosophy and literature in Munich. In 1887 he joined the editorial team of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt as an art critic . In 1890 he returned to Berlin and settled down as a freelance writer. He wrote numerous novels, short stories and plays. Misch's best-known works are the libretti for the two Humperdinck operas Die Sutlerin and Gaudemus .

Since 1886 he was born with Margarete (Mary) Misch. Kastner (1858–1924) married, who also worked as a writer. Among other things , she published the novels Baronin Fify (Leipzig 1897) and Annemarie (Berlin 1904). Both graves are located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Works

• The sutler. (1913; EHWV 155), Singspiel in 2 acts, composer: Engelbert Humperdinck. World premiere: May 10, 1914 Cologne
• Gaudeamus. (1915–19; EHWV 162), play opera , composer: Engelbert Humperdinck; First performance: March 18, 1919 Darmstadt
• Leda (comedy). Berlin 1885.
• Love Denier (Acting). Berlin 1886.
• The bachelors (Schwank). Leipzig 1887.
• The Schützenfest (Schwank). Berlin 1889. (with Wilhelm Jacoby )
• The straw widow (Schwank). Berlin 1890. (with Wilhelm Jacoby)
• The womanizer (comedy). Berlin 1890.
• Baroness Ruth (Schwank). Berlin 1891.
• Miss Frau (comedy). Berlin 1891. (with Gustav von Moser )
• The sixth sense (sway). Berlin 1892. (with Gustav von Moser)
• The massage cure (Schwank). Berlin 1892.
• Career (Schwank). Berlin 1892.
• Today's love (folk piece). Berlin 1893.
• The phoenix (comedy). Berlin 1893. (with Ernst von Woliehen )
• The wrong way. (Novel). Berlin 1895.
• Misch-Masch (collection of novels). Berlin 1895. (with Mary Misch).
• Post fame (comedy). Berlin 1896.
• Off the track. (Novel). Leipzig 1897.
• Mrs. Hellas fame (novel). Berlin 1898.
• Artist marriage. A Coulissen novel . Munich 1899; 3.A. Acting marriage , Berlin 1904.
• The dead musician (humorous novel). Berlin 1900.
• The aristocratic man (satirical marriage novel ). Stuttgart 1900.
• How my friend Iwan traveled to Africa (short story). Berlin 1900.
• The city dweller. A satirical novel . Berlin 1901.
• The eternal feminine. A cheerful fantasy game . (Verse narration). Berlin 1902.
• Tressin manor (novel). Berlin 1903.
• Villa Kaltenbach. A cheerful story from Berlin W (novel). Berlin 1903; new edition 1906.
• War in the house . Romantic loss game. Leipzig 1903.
• The three friends (novel). Berlin 1904.
• The Doctor's Daughters (comic novel). Berlin 1904.
• Ordinary people (satirical comedy). Berlin 1904.
• Übermenschen (one-act cycle). Berlin 1905.
• The shooting festival. Funny story . Stuttgart 1905.
• Children. A high school comedy . Berlin 1906.
• "And fame is a vain delusion". The story of a premiere success. Berlin 1906.
• Comedians. Drama, 1907.
• Mamsell innocence , girl career in 15 chapters. A fun book of verses. Berlin 1907.
• The Jockey Club (libretto). Berlin 1909. (Opera by Victor Hollaender ).
• He should be your master (comedy). Berlin 1910.
• The prince (love fluctuation). Berlin 1911.
• The nursery (burlesque). Berlin 1912.
• The advertisement dead (humorous novel). Berlin-Leipzig 1915.
• The little French (novel). Berlin 1915.
• Be proud that you are German! How little Joseph became a hero and other serious and cheerful war stories . Wroclaw 1915.
• Little Napoleon (Schwank). Berlin 1917.
• The shop comtesse (libretto). Prague 1917. (Operetta by František Drdla ).
• The gentleman rider (novel). Berlin 1919.
• The secret of Vera Baranska (screenplay). Berlin 1919.
• Das Kuckucksei (comedy). Berlin 1920.
• If you have an aunt (Novella / screenplay). Berlin 1925. (with Max Glass).
• Two handsome guys. Another time image , Berlin 1929.
• Twee ouwe vrijers; klucht in een bedrijf , Zaandijk 1929. (Translated by HW van Rijswijk).
• Hetti, the rider's child (novel). Dresden 1930.

literature

• Misch, Mary . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 49 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century. up to the present, & .A., Vol. 5, Leipzig 1913, pp. 5-6.
• Max Geißler: Guide through the German literature of the 20th century, Weimar 1913.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1901-1935, Berlin 1936.
• Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Vol. 2, Klagenfurt-Vienna 1960.
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon , 3rd A. Vol-10, Bern 1986, pp. 1132-1133.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd A., Vol. 7, Munich 2007, pp. 120-121.

Web links

• Short biography and information on the work of Robert Misch at Literaturport