Walter Harlan

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Walter Harlan (born December 25, 1867 in Dresden , † April 14, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German writer and dramaturge . Originally a lawyer (Dr. iur.), He worked, among other things, at the Berlin Lessing Theater .

Walter Harlan is the son of the banker and farmer Otto Harlan , as well as Bertha Elisa Harlan (née Bienert, daughter of the industrialist Gottlieb Traugott Bienert ). He was born with Adele Boothby married and is considered the founder of the Harlan family of artists ; Of the seven children, the musician Peter Harlan and the director Veit Harlan deserve special mention.

His story Die Kindsmagd was filmed in 1936 as Maria, die Magd , his tragedy Das Nürnbergisch Ei in 1939 in a heavily modified form under the title Das immortliche Herz . Both films were directed by Veit Harlan.

Walter Harlan suffered a heart attack on April 14, 1931 at the age of 63, during a meeting of the Association of German Stage Writers and Stage Composers, in which he had worked for many years. He was buried on April 18, 1931 in the Heerstraße cemetery in today's Berlin-Westend district . The grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • In April. Comedy from the forties . Wild, Leipzig 1895
  • New pamphlets . Wild, Leipzig 1895
  • The poets exchange . Novel. F. Fontane & Company, Berlin 1899
  • School of comedy (psychology of the spectator / the play on the stage) . Bloch, Berlin 2nd supplement A. 1903
  • The sin in the children. A schoolmaster's life, death, and journey into the all-heart . Fleischel, Berlin 1908
  • The Latin donkey. Comedy in five acts . Bloch, Berlin 1910
  • Catrein's odyssey. Novella from Old Flanders . Fleischel, Berlin 1912
  • Family scenes. Fourteen stories of women and children, of servants and of the world soul . Fleischel, Berlin 1912
  • The Nürnbergisch egg. Tragedy in four acts . Fleischel, Berlin 1913
  • The coat child. Comedy in five acts . Bloch, Berlin undated
  • Fair in Pulsnitz. A Dionysian swan in three acts . Bloch, Berlin undated
  • In Canaan. A happy mystery in four acts . Fleischel, Berlin 1915
  • Fifth decade of selection . Self-published, Berlin 1917
  • He snores. A blissful joke . DVA, Stuttgart 1922
  • The arch school master. Novel up to heaven . German Book Association , Berlin 1924; Except for the title only slightly different version of The Sin of the Children (1908).
  • Give us children and a hundred grandchildren! A game from the days of the patriarchs , Berlin 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Harlan † . In: Vossische Zeitung . April 15, 1931. Morning edition. P. 13.
  2. ^ Vossische Zeitung . April 16, 1931. Evening edition. P. 3.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 487.

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personal data
SURNAME Harlan, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1931
Place of death Berlin