Rudolf Lindau (writer)

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Rudolf Lindau, 1909.

Rudolf August Leopold Lindau zu Gardelegen (born October 10, 1829 in Gardelegen , † October 14, 1910 in Paris ) was a German writer and diplomat .

Life

Rudolf Lindau was the son of the doctor and later Justice Commissioner Karl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau (1797-1868), of the Jewish faith to Protestantism convert born was, and Henriette Bernadine Müller in Gardelegen. His older sister was the Salonnière , writer and translator Anna Vivanti-Lindau , his younger brother was the writer and playwright Paul . In 1847 the family moved to Berlin . Rudolf Lindau studied philology in Berlin , Giessen , Paris and Montpellier and graduated in 1855 with the Dr. phil. from.

He then worked as a private tutor in France and then became private secretary to the later Minister Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire . In 1860 Lindau moved to Japan as the diplomatic representative of Switzerland , worked in Yokohama as a representative for a watch company, founded the Japan Times , the first English-language newspaper on the island, and the Japan Punch . He also wrote articles as a correspondent for French newspapers such as the “ Revue des Deux Mondes ” and “Journal des Débats”.

From 1859 Lindau traveled to China , Siam , Japan, India and California, where he also took on diplomatic tasks.

In 1869 he returned to Germany, in 1870/71 he took over the war reporting for the Prussian State Gazette and the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . After the Franco-Prussian War , he became an attaché at the German embassy in Paris in 1873 . Here he worked under the ambassador Harry von Arnim and from 1874 under his successor Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . His reports on the French press attracted great attention in government circles in Berlin.

His novels and short stories , which he then wrote, were influenced by Turgenev in their early days . In 1878 Lindau moved to the central office of the Reich Chancellor in Berlin and in 1880 was promoted to Real Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office. His main task was to work as a press officer for the Reich Chancellery, where he set up a system for newspaper and press reports. This organization of press work enabled the Chancellor to respond promptly and effectively to reports.

His literary work was also respected by Theodor Fontane . Struggling with health problems, he took temporary retirement in 1892. Nevertheless, he then took up a job in Constantinople as a specialist in questions of the Orient. He often spent his holidays on Heligoland since 1874 and settled there in retirement from 1902.

Rudolf Lindau worked for many years on the Revue des Deux Mondes . He died in Paris at the age of 81 and was buried on Heligoland.

Works

  • Un Voyage Autour du Japon . Hachette, Paris 1864. (German trip around Japan , 2010) ( digitized )
  • The Prussian Guard in the campaign 1870-71 . Mittler, Berlin 1872. ( digitized version )
  • Robert Ashton , novel, 1877
  • Four novellas and short stories . Paetel, Berlin 1878. ( digitized version )
  • Gordon Baldwin , novella, 1878. English: Appleton New York 1878. ( digitized )
  • Good company . Novel. Schottlaender, Breslau 1879. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • The little world . Narrative. Fontane, Berlin 1894. ( digitized version )
  • The guest . Novel. Schottlaender, Breslau and Leipzig 1884. ( digitized version )
  • Winter days . Stories. Schottlaender, Breslau 1883
  • On the way . Stories. Lehmann, Berlin 1886. ( digitized version )
  • Two souls . Novel. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1888
  • The tall Dutchman . Novella. Lehmann, Berlin 1889. ( digitized version )
  • Martha . Novel. Cotta, Stuttgart 1892
  • Love marriages . Novel. Fontane, Berlin 1894
  • Travel companions . Novella. Fontane, Berlin 1894
  • Remain silent. New novellas . Fontane, Berlin 1895. ( digitized version )
  • From China and Japan. Travel memories . Fontane, Berlin 1896. ( digitized version )
  • Stories by Effendi Fontane, Berlin 1896
  • Turkish stories . Fontane, Berlin 1897. ( digitized version )
  • The Fanar and Mayfair . Novel. Fontane, Berlin 1898
  • Two trips to Turkey . Fontane, Berlin 1899. ( digitized version )
  • An unhappy people . Novel. Fontane, Berlin 1903. ( digitized version )
  • Collected novels and short stories , 1904f
  • Old stories . Fleischel, Berlin 1904
  • Stories from the East . Book publisher for the German house, Berlin 1909
  • A gleanings , short stories and translations, 1910

literature

  • Rainer Hillenbrand: The narrative work of Rudolf Lindau. With a bibliography. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005. ISBN 3-631-53537-6
  • Rainer Hillenbrand: Skeptical Realism in Rudolf Lindau's Storytelling. In: German Life and Letters . Vol. 55, No. 4, October 2002, pp. 363-386
  • Matthias Koch: Life and Work of Rudolf Lindau (1829-1910) , in: Rudolf Lindau, Journey around Japan. The land of the rising sun in the last decade of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) . Translated from the French by Daniel Stalph. Reviewed by Annette Hack. With an afterword and edited by Matthias Koch. cass publishing house and publishing agency, Löhne 2010. ISBN 978-3-9809022-4-3
  • Eberhard Naujoks:  Lindau, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 575 ( digitized version ).
  • Heinz-Alfred Pohl: Bismarck's influence on the form of government in France 1871-1877. On the problem of the importance of press policy in the context of foreign relations. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1984. (= Europäische Hochschulschriften / 3; 219) ISBN 3-8204-5281-8

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Lindau  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, pp. 563-565
personal data
SURNAME Lindau, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindau zu Gardelegen, Rudolf August Leopold; Lindau, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Guards
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1910
Place of death Paris