Alexander Moszkowski

Alexander Moszkowski ( born January 15, 1851 in Pilicą; † September 26, 1934 in Berlin) was a German writer and satirist of Polish origin. He is the brother of composer and pianist Moritz Moszkowski.

Life

Moszkowski was on January 15, 1851 in Pilicą ( a village north of Cracow, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Poland ) in a rich, Jewish, Polish family born, but grew up in Breslau. Later he moved to Berlin, where he was engaged by Julius Stettenheim 1877-1886 for his satirical newspaper Berliner wasps.

After differences with Stettenheim he founded his own magazine "Funny sheets ", which reached high volumes during the Weimar Republic.

Moszkowski belonged since 1892 to the members of the Society of Friends. He was a personality of the Berlin Society and known with celebrities such as Albert Einstein. Moszkowski was one of the first to make popular science accessible to the theory of relativity to a wide audience.

Work

In addition to his satirical work, the work Moszkowski includes numerous popular science books especially on language and philosophy: the jump over the shadow (1917 ), Socrates d Idiot ( 1917), The Mystery of Language (1920), The World of the flip side (1920 ), The Venus Park, fantasies about love and Philosophy (1920 ) and others

He was jokes and aphorisms collectors and published The Immortal box with the "333 best jokes in the world literature," " befür and bevorwortet by Alexander Moszkowski ". Furthermore appeared The Jewish wit and his philosophy with 399 examples.

, 1924 The Panorama of my life.

The islands of Wisdom

Its up to today 's most interesting works of the utopian novel is The islands of the wisdom of 1922. This in the tradition of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift plant uses a background story of an expedition to unknown, but some high-tech islands to various intellectual currents of his time by companies in the to describe different islands. These companies each carry an idea to the extreme and therefore absurd.

This reinvents Moszkowski, among other things, the mobile phone and prophetically describes the acceleration of modern high-tech information society. This medicine is a kind of holodeck, that describes a virtual space in which a three-dimensional film about the rise of the machines and the enslavement of humanity is shown.

Works (selection)

• Anton Notenquetscher. A satirical poem in four cantos by Alexander Moszkowski. With 23 Illustrations by Philipp Scharwenka. Increased cheap popular edition. (Tenth to fifteenth thousand. ) Berlin SW. Carl Simon, music publishing. 1906 ( first published in 1875. ).
• Einstein. Insight into his thought. Community -evident observations on the theory of relativity and a new world system developed from discussions with Einstein. F. Fontane & Co., 36 to 40 thousand, Berlin 1922
• Schultze and Müller in the Ring of the Nibelung. Humorous sketches ( old text ), new edition of the 1881 published edition, Berlin:. A. Hofmann & Comp, 1911 Schultze and Müller in the Ring of the Nibelung. Satires about Richard Wagner 1881/1911, republished by Heiko Jacobs, with a foreword by Andor Izsák, 1, Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-487-08535-7 and ISBN 3-487 - 08535-6; Information from the publishing message