Wilhelm Meyer-Förster

Wilhelm Meyer- Förster ( also: Samar Gregorow; born June 12, 1862 in Hannover, † March 17, 1934 in Heringsdorf ) was a German writer.

Life

Wilhelm Meyer- Förster was born the son of the publishing bookseller Carl Meyer in Hanover. He visited shortly after the German -French war first a military academy. For health reasons he moved to the Council Gymnasium in Osnabrück, and later at the high school in Biickeburg, where he earned a high school in 1883. He then studied law, then art history in Leipzig, Berlin, Munich and Vienna, but then decided on a literary career. During his semester in Leipzig, he was a member of the Corps Saxonia. He left there because the study change again, but remained more connected individual members. Before his corp student background already be parodic novel " The Saxo - Saxons " came a little later.

From 1890 to 1898 lived Meyer- Förster in Paris, then in Berlin. His most famous work is Alt- Heidelberg, the " The Student Prince " ( The Student Prince ) by Sigmund Romberg was the inspiration for the musical. He was married to Elsbeth Meyer- Förster, who himself was active as a writer, but even at a young age suddenly ( after 1901 ) died of disease.

On the death of Elsbeth Meyer- Förster, the writer Erich Mühsam wrote in his memoirs Unpolitischen in a report on the artist roster table in cafe of the West:

Meyer- Förster usually came with his young, amiable, very clever and graceful woman, and as then unexpectedly came the news that Elsbeth Meyer- Förster had died after a short illness, was also continued the husband, and it was long the painful pressure of orphanhood on the coffee-house regulars; the impoverishment that our society has suffered through the loss Elsbeth Meyer- Förster, has never been compensated.

Works

• Saxo - Saxons (novel), 1885 ( under the pseudonym Samar Gregorow. Parody of " The Saxoborussen " by Gregor Samarow ).
• The journey around the Earth (novel), 1897
• Everyday people (novel), 1898
• Heidenstamm (novel), 1901
• Elschen to the University, 1903
• Old Heidelberg (Acting), 1903
• Grace v. DC Mountain (novel ), 1923