Sigmar Mehring
Sigmar Mehring (born April 13, 1856 in Breslau ; † December 10, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German writer and translator . He was the son of the dialect humorist and painter Siegfried Mehring , learned the trade and founded a publishing house in 1886. From 1889 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 1899 he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for a poem in which the Jesuits were mocked. In 1895 he married Hedwig Stein (Löwenstein), opera singer at the Royal State Theater in Prague. Their son and future writer Walter Mehring was born in Berlin in 1896.
Sigmar Mehring worked as an editor for Ulk in Berlin, he was a member of the Berlin Press Association .
Works
Monographs
- Champagne spirit. Songs and comedies by French masters . Sigmar-Mehring-Verlag, Berlin 1888. (Second edition: Rosenbaum & Hart, Berlin 1891.)
- Parody of the Kreutzer Sonata. The Pfennig Sonata, a fun stuff . Verlag Trautwein, Berlin 1890.
- The rhyme in its development and training . Rosenbaum & Hart, Berlin 1891.
- German verse theory. Universal library 2851/53. Reclam, Leipzig 1891.
- Nothing. Rhyming sounds . Rosenbaum & Hart, Berlin 1894.
- French poetry in the 19th century. With own transmissions . Baumert & Ronge, Grossenhain 1900.
- People from Berlin. Ridiculous verses . Bondy, Berlin 1911.
- Unbound in bound form. Whimsical lecture poetry. Universal Library 4161. Reclam, Leipzig 1911
- From the three million pile. Wacky . Bondy, Berlin 1912.
- Laurel wreaths for German and foreign poets. Contributions to the knowledge of their work and nature . Continent-Verlag, Berlin 1912.
- Rieke in the war . Müller, Munich 1916 (with pictures by Heinrich Zille )
Essays
- A new Heine book . In: Ost und West , Vol. 14 (1914) No. 4, pp. 271-278.
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch (Greetings): German Literature Lexicon . Saur Verlag, Munich 1968ff
- 10. Lucius-Myss . 1986, ISBN 3-317-01539-X , p. 699.
- Roger Stein : The German dirnenlied. Literary cabaret from Bruant to Brecht . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-03306-5 , pp. 344–347 (also dissertation, University of Vienna)
- Mehring, Sigmar. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 409-413.
Web links
Wikisource: Sigmar Mehring - Sources and full texts
proof
- ^ Adolph Kohut : The grand masters of Berlin humor in old and new times. Hofmann, Berlin 1915, p. 299f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehring, Sigmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1915 |
| Place of death | Berlin |