Siegfried Loewy

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Siegfried Loewy
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Siegfried Loewy , also Siegfried Löwy , (born November 1, 1857 in Vienna ; † May 8, 1931 ibid) was an Austrian writer , journalist and theater critic .

Life

Siegfried Loewy first received a commercial training at the Vienna Commercial Academy before working as a writer. From 1873 he worked as a journalist and, following his interest in economics, devoted himself primarily to economic and political topics, but also wrote theater reviews and feature pages. He was an employee of the Morgen-Post and correspondent for the Berliner Börsen-Courier and the Frankfurter Nachrichten . When the Oesterreichische Volks-Zeitung was founded in 1888, Loewy took over the management of the business section.

Loewy's interest shifted more and more to the field of theater and local history. He wrote articles on such topics in the Neue Wiener Journal , Neue Wiener Tagblatt , in the Neue Freie Presse , the Österreichische Rundschau and others. a. The fact that Loewy was a half-brother of the former Viennese court actor and director of the drama school of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin Leo Friedrichs (1842–1908) was not mentioned in the newspaper reports about his death. Siegfried Loewy published some books in the 1920s in which he also recorded his personal memories of artists.

Not least because of his wife - Loewy had been married to the singer Antonie Hartmann since 1889 , with whom he had four sons - he frequented artistic circles and was close friends with some, such as Alexander Girardi and Johann Strauss (son) . He supported Felix Salten in founding the first Austrian cabaret Jung-Wiener Theater zum dear Augustin and advocated the erection of the monuments in Vienna for Ferdinand Raimund (1898), Josef Kainz (1911), Alexander Girardi (1929) and for Johann Strauss Memorial (1921). For Carl Michael Ziehrer he wrote the text for his waltz song Wien über Alles! Opus 409.

Works

  • Johann Strauss on the beautiful blue Danube . Screenplay, together with Alfred Deutsch-German , 1913.
  • From Vienna's great theater days. Monographs and personal memories. Paul Knepler , Vienna 1921 ( digitized ).
  • German theater art from Goethe to Reinhardt. With an appendix: The old Viennese Volkstheater. Paul Knepler, Vienna 1923.
  • Johann Strauss the minstrel of the blue Danube. Fragments of life. Vienna Literary Institute, Vienna 1924.
  • All about Johann Strauss. Snapshots from an artist's life. Paul Knepler, Vienna 1925.
  • Old Viennese families. (Tagblatt Library No. 164/165). Steyrermühl, Vienna 1925
  • The Burgtheater through the ages. Small building blocks for the history of this art facility. With a foreword by Hermann Bahr . Paul Knepler, Vienna 1926.

literature

Contemporary press releases

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Loewy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example: Berliner Börsenzeitung No. 360 evening edition of August 3, 1908, p. 7, category: “Art”, digitized evening edition
  2. ^ Hans Veigl: Karl Kraus, the Viennese modernism and the Viennese cabaret after the turn of the century. In: Joanne McNally, Peter Sprengel (eds.): Hundred Years of Cabaret: To stage social identity between protest and propaganda. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-82602-488-5 , p. 39.
  3. ↑ The unveiling of the Kainz monument. The valentine from the "spendthrift" .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , November 13, 1911, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ↑ The unveiling of the Girardi monument. In:  Neue Freie Presse , May 5, 1929, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  5. ↑ Unveiling of the Johann Strauss monument. In:  Wiener Bilder , July 3, 1921, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb
personal data
SURNAME Loewy, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwy, Siegfried; Leo, Siegfried (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1931
Place of death Vienna