Ulrich Steindorff

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Ulrich Steindorff Carrington ; Pseudonym: Ulrich S. Carrington ; (Born March 10, 1888 in Berlin , † June 21, 1978 in Sherman Oaks , California ) was a German writer , translator , actor and journalist .

Life

Ulrich Steindorff was the son of the Egyptologist Georg Steindorff and his wife Elise, née Oppenheimer, sister of the sociologist Franz Oppenheimer . In 1902 Ulrich moved with his parents from Berlin to Leipzig , where he attended the newly established Königin-Carola-Gymnasium , which he left in 1907 with the school leaving certificate. From May to November 1907 he studied law at the University of Leipzig , then moved to the University of Kiel , and from October 1908 to March 1915 again to study law, philosophy and economics in Leipzig .

He then lived as a freelance writer and journalist in Leipzig, Italy, Berlin and New York . In 1909 he married his wife Marguerite in Leipzig-Gohlis , with whom he edited numerous translations from English and French.

In the same year his first volume of poetry was published. Several expressionist dramas followed, of which Die Irren premiered on December 11, 1919 in Rudolf Leonhard's Berlin private theater tribune in the production of Karlheinz Martin .

Steindorff co- wrote the scripts for the films Demon of the Sea (USA 1931) directed by Michael Curtiz and Kismet (Germany 1931) directed by William Dieterle . In the drama The Mask Falls (Germany 1931) he was involved as a performer alongside Lissy Arna and Anton Pointner, directed by William Dieterle .

Due to his Jewish descent , Steindorff had to emigrate to the United States with his wife in 1933 . They settled in Sherman Oaks, near Los Angeles . Steindorff continued to work as a translator and editor under the pseudonym Ulrich S. Carrington . He was also involved in the script for the war drama Chetniks (USA 1943) directed by Louis King.

Quotes

  • Wundram's manifesto :

We believe that there is nothing by God's grace but the same righteousness in all of us, the eternal righteousness of nature.

We believe that the world is moved by justice for justice's sake.

We believe that we are moved by the great law.

We believe that we are there for the law, all equal to one another.

We are willing to stand up against all who are against the law.

Will: to create equality where inequality is against the will of justice.

Will: to break every power that holds us down and humiliates us, that makes us animals, where we should be humans , that rises above us in the conceit of being better than us.

Will: to tolerate no servants, to free us from the rule of wealth, as there are: money and goods, treasures of nature, land, tools and charter to acquired.

Will: to use and possess justly with one another, to stand for one another and no one against the other.

Will: to be justly rich where we are poor, and to remain justly poor where we can only be rich through the poverty of others.

We are willing: to stand for one another in the fight for the justice in which we believe until death. That is our belief and our will. Then shake hands with us, brothers. - Come on.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Poems , Harmony, Berlin 1909
  • Panthea. Tragedy in five acts , Erich Reiss , Berlin 1911 (Modern stage. A collection of dramatic works)
  • Mrs. Cardinal. Comedy in three acts , Erich Reiss, Berlin 1913
  • Freedom i mean! A German Festival , Erich Reiss, Berlin 1913
  • The crazy , three elevators, Paul Cassirer , Berlin 1919
  • Wundram's Resurrection , Four Acts, Musarion, Munich 1919
  • Drive out of the night. Poems , Musarion, Munich 1920
  • Brother Esau , Drama, Musarion, Munich 1923
  • Of Gods and miracles. Wounderous tales of the ancient Egyptians , Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, San José, Calif. 1954 (Rosicrucian Library, 24)
  • The making of an American: an adaption of memorable tales by Charles Sealsfield , SMU Press, Dallas 1974

Published writings

  • Teubner's war pocket book. An encyclopedia about the world war , BG Teubner , Leipzig 1916
  • Maurice Hewiett: The Madonna under the peach tree. Italian short stories , Wilhelm Borngräber, Berlin 1917
  • Johann Fischart : The philosophical marriage breeding book of Johannes Fischart Musarion, Munich 1919
  • Guy de Maupassant : Collected Novellas , Vols. 1–2, Hyperion, Munich 1919
  • Fairy tales and stories of the ancient Egyptians , Propylaea, Berlin 1925 (Das kleine Propylaen book)

Translations

  • Maurice Hewiett: Italian Novellas , Bernhard Tauchnitz , Leipzig 1912
  • Rudyard Kipling : Simple Stories from the Indian Mountains , Gustav Kiepenheuer , Weimar 1914 (Liebhaberbibliothek, 18)
  • Mary Antin : From the Ghetto to the Land of Promise , Lutz, Stuttgart 1914 (Memoir Library, Series: 5, Vol. 2)
  • Nikolaj Gogol : From the correspondence with my friends, part 2: Hans Küchelgarten , in: Nikolaj V. Gogol: Complete works in 8 volumes , ed. v. Otto Buek , G.Müller, Munich 1914
  • Mary Annette Countess von Arnim: Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther , Wilhelm Borngräber, Leipzig, Berlin 1917
  • Okakura Kakuzō : The book of tea , Insel , Leipzig 1919
  • Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finns Rides and Adventure , Ullstein , Berlin 1921
  • Mark Twain: Through thick and thin , Ullstein, Berlin 1922
  • Mark Twain: Stroll through Europe , Ullstein, Berlin 1922
  • Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer's Adventure , Ullstein, Berlin 1922
  • Mark Twain: Great stories , Ullstein, Berlin 1923
  • Richard E. Enright: Vultures of the Night. A detective novel , Three Masks, Munich 1925
  • Ludwig van Beethoven : The symphony of life. Letters by Ludwig van Beethoven , US Library Ass., Los Angeles 1933
  • Gottfried August Bürger : Baron Munchausen's miraculous adventures on land , US Library Ass., Los Angeles 1933
  • Mark Twain: A cannibal on the train , Steuben, Berlin 1947 (Steuben-Blätter, 8)
  • Mark Twain: The awful German Language , edited by Hartmut Ruge, Manuscriptum, Recklinghausen 1996

Holdings

  • Kurt Pinthus (ed.): Neuer Leipziger Parnass: Elsa Asenijeff , Walter Hasenclever , Kurt Pinthus, Ulrich Steindorff the Leipzig bibliophile evening for the annual dinner on November 16, 1912 , Leipzig 1912
  • Kismet , screenplay, Germany 1931
  • Demon of the Sea , screenplay, USA 1931
  • Chetniks , screenplay, USA 1943

literature

  • Paul Raabe : The authors and books of literary expressionism. A bibliographical handbook in collaboration with Ingrid Hannich-Bode , JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 449–551
  • Andreas Klimt (Editor): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1971-1998 , KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig 1999, p. 599
  • Alfred Kerr : Ulrich Steindorff , in: Die Welt im Drama , ed. by Gerhard F. Hering, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1954, pp. 237–240
  • Klaus Schuhmann : Walter Hasenclever, Kurt Pinthus and Franz Werfel in the Kurt-Wolff-Verlag in Leipzig (1913-1919): an excursion into the history of publishing and literature into the Expressionist decade , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2000
  • Louis Maxim Wambach: The poet lawyers of Expressionism , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002
  • Klaus Schuhmann: This side and "beyond the war". Ulrich Steindorff and Friedrich Sebrecht playwrights without stage presence , in: Ders .: Leipzig-Transit. A foray into literary history from the turn of the century to 1933 , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005, p. 120ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola high school in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 34
  2. ↑ Ulrich Steinhoff: Wundrams Resurrection , Four Acts, Musarion, Munich 1919. Quoted from: Klaus Schuhmann: This side and “beyond the war”. Ulrich Steindorff and Friedrich Sebrecht playwrights without stage presence , in: Ders .: Leipzig-Transit. A foray into literary history from the turn of the century to 1933 , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005, p. 125
personal data
SURNAME Steindorff, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steindorff Carrington, Ulrich (full name); Carrington, Ulrich S. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1978
Place of death Sherman Oaks , California