Rudolf Presber

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Hermann Otto Rudolf Presber (born July 4, 1868 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 30, 1935 in Potsdam ) was a German writer , playwright and screenwriter .

Rudolf Presber 1911
Rudolf Presber 1927
Dreiklang, a book of poems , Stuttgart and Berlin, 1904, first edition

Life

The son of the teacher and writer Hermann Presber (1830–1884) wrote a festival to mark the 300th anniversary of the school as a primary student at the high school in Karlsruhe . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy, literature and art history at the universities in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . He received his doctorate in 1892 with a dissertation on Arthur Schopenhauer as Dr. phil. and initially worked in Frankfurt. In 1898 he moved to the imperial capital Berlin , where he got a job with the newspaper Die Post . There he worked as an editor for the feature section and as a theater critic before he became editor of the Lustige Blätter in 1905 . He worked for this magazine for 30 years until his death. In the meantime he worked as a freelance writer.

From 1892 to 1899 he was married to Hedwig Dietz. In 1909 he married Emma Otten from Holland, with whom he moved into a villa built according to his own plans in Berlin-Grunewald and often spent the holidays in his own holiday home in Morcote on Lake Lugano . He often spent the holidays with his third wife Lucie Ernst in Graal on the Baltic Sea .

Before the First World War, Presber celebrated his first successes as a writer and playwright. Several of his plays were shown at various theaters in Berlin. After serving in the war, he developed into a widely read author.

After the takeover of the Nazis Rudolf Presber signed in October 1933, together with other 87 writers, the vow faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler .

Of his books, Liselotte von der Pfalz was made into a film by Carl Froelich in 1935 . He wrote several scripts himself, including the one for Sleeping Beauty (1917) in 1917 .

In 1935 he wrote the comedy Hofjagd in Steineich together with the well-known comedian Leo Lenz . In the same year Rudolf Presber died during a hernia operation in the St. Josephs Hospital in Potsdam . He was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam .

In 1946 his book A delicate order (Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1934) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Works (selection)

  • Media in vita
  • Consecrated sites , 1914, Vita Deutsches Verlagshaus, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • The lady with the lilies
  • Of her and him
  • My patient
  • My talent
  • The savior in need
  • Triad
  • From children and young dogs
  • The Duchess's ruby
  • Frau von Sonnenfels' room
  • The silver crane
  • My brother Benjamin
  • His Majesty's rose
  • Liselotte of the Palatinate
  • The struggle with everyday life
  • The colorful cow
  • Of people whom I loved
  • The Diva and Other Satires
  • The road to fame
  • The seven foolish virgins
  • The day of Damascus
  • House of Ithaca
  • Pierrot
  • The man in the fog (a novel published in 1883 by August Scherl [Verlag] GmbH / Berlin GW)
  • The golden laugh. A humorous family treasure in words and pictures , Berlin, Verlag von Neufeld and Henius, [around 1910]
  • Father is at war. A picture book for children , Berlin, Verlag Hermann Hilger 1915
  • The Viscount , Stuttgart 1897
  • Der Untermensch and other satires , Leipzig 1905
  • Of Folly and Joy , Berlin [around 1910]
  • The Star of Saragossa , a Berlin novel (1927 by Verlag Dr. Selle - Eysler AG Berlin SW 68)
  • The Horn of Thurn and Taxis , Berlin 1934
  • I'm walking through my house. Memories , Stuttgart 1935
  • The gentleman with the chrysanthemums. Happy stories , Bremen 1943

script

literature

  • Clobes, Wilhelm: Rudolf Presber. A Rhenish poet's life. Berlin 1910.
  • Presber, Wolfgang: I'm looking for our father Rudolf Presber. Berlin 1997.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Presber  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Rudolf Presber  - Sources and full texts
Wikiquote: Rudolf Presber  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 465.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html
personal data
SURNAME Presber, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Presber, Rudolf Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1935
Place of death Potsdam