Rudolf Kayser
Rudolf Kayser (born November 28, 1889 in Parchim ; † February 5, 1964 in New York ) was a German literary historian .
Career
Rudolf Kayser studied literature and received his doctorate with a thesis on Arnim and Brentano. As a young lecturer at the Lessing University in Berlin, he made his debut in 1918 with the essay The Intellectuals and the Spirituals . In 1919 he became editor of the S. Fischer publishing house in Berlin, and from 1922 to 1933 he was the editor in charge of the Neue Rundschau . Erwin Piscator brought Kayser to the Volksbühne Berlin as a dramaturgical advisor in the mid-1920s . In 1930 Kayser wrote a biography about his father-in-law Albert Einstein under the pseudonym "Anton Reiser" .
Rudolf Kayser was married to Ilse (1897–1934), Albert Einstein's step-daughter. In 1935 he emigrated to New York and became a professor for German and European literature at Brandeis University . His estate is kept in the Israel National Library.
literature
- Kayser, Rudolf. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , pp. 323-332.
- Wolfgang Kaelcke: Parchim personalities. Part 2, (= series of publications by the Parchim City Museum. Issue 5). City Museum, Parchim 1997, DNB 956384560 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter de Mendelssohn: S. Fischer and his publishing house . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1970, OCLC 603961926 , p. 857 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Kayser in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kayser, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reiser, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary historian, biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parchim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1964 |
| Place of death | new York |