David Kalisch

David Kalisch (* February 23, 1820 in Breslau (now Wrocław); † August 21, 1872 in Berlin) was a German writer.

Life

The early death of his father David Kalisch made ​​for financial reasons, the other attending high school impossible. Kalisch regretted all his life that he had to start as a 15- year-old an apprenticeship.

Although he was a successful businessman, he gave up his position in 1844 and went to Paris to become a writer, with the stated goal. There he wrote for various German magazines and met among others Georg Herwegh and Karl Marx. Even with Heinrich Heine and Pierre- Joseph Proudhon, he befriended. As Kalisch was plagued by financial worries, he worked part-time as a tour guide and temporarily took again a position as a salesman at.

1846 Kalisch returned back to Germany and wrote it in Leipzig for the Charivari by Eduard Maria Oettinger. However, some time Kalisch was back in a commercial position in Berlin. There he brought his local posse hundred thousand dollars a breakthrough. In Berlin Kalisch also married Sophie Albrecht. With her he had two daughters and three sons. One of his daughters is the singer Lilli Lehmann, one of his sons the writer Paul Lindau.

In his time in Paris Kalisch has met the French theater closer - his success piece was created by a French original, but the success did not diminish. Kalisch portrayed in his plays, the Berlin milieu so vivid that even some quotes from the pieces were transferred to the Berlin vernacular.

1848 founded Kalisch together with the publisher Heinrich Albert Hofmann, the magazine Kladderadatsch. For this weekly magazine Kalisch now worked the next 24 years to the day job. Of the three scholars of Kladderadatsch he was next to Ernst Dohm and Rudolph Loewenstein probably the most productive. 1852 David Kalisch converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith.

On August 21, 1872 David Kalisch died in Berlin. He was buried in a grave of honor at the old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin -Schöneberg.

Importance

Gottfried Keller 1851 the Berliner Lokal Posse and David Kalisch:

Works

  • A ticket for Jenny Lind, 1847
  • Once a hundred thousand dollars, 1847/50
  • Berlin to watch in 1848
  • Berlin at Night, 1849
  • Berlin Volksbühne, 4 vols, 1850-52
  • The loafer from Berlin, 1854
  • The Aktienbudiker, 1856
  • Berlin hurdy-gurdy, 1858-1866
  • The porter formed in 1858
  • Berlin, as it weeps and laughs, 1858
  • The Mottenburger, 1867
  • Hundred thousand dollars. Altberliner antics, 2 vols Edited by Manfred Nöbel. Berlin: Haude and Spener, 1988 ( posthumously )
  • Schultze and Müller at the Leipzig Fair: humorist. Travel Pictures v. Avail d Schultze and Müller in Paris, in resin, etc. / [ mutmaßl. Author: . David Kalisch ] Ill. v. H. King. - Berlin:. Hofmann, 1856 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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