Julius Elias

Julius Elias ( born July 12, 1861 in Hoya / Hannover, † July 2, 1927 in Berlin) was a German writer, art collector and translator, Literar and art historian, lecturer in art history at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg and an art critic pioneer of Impressionism in Germany.

Elias was co-editor of the German edition of Ibsen (14 vols, 1898-1909 ) and the works Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (4 vols, 1911) at S. Fischer Verlag. Later he acted as executor of Ibsen.

Along with Erich Schmidt was Elias founder and director of the " annual reports for recent German literary history " ( 1892-1925 ). He also worked as a journalist and translator from French.

Furthermore, Elias was a founding member of the Free Stage.

He also wrote a biography of Max Liebermann and published books with its graphics.

Elias lived at the same time as Carl Zuck Mayer and Annemarie Seidel in the same house of Matthäikirchplatz street in Berlin without Zuck Mayer, Elias ' aid would then urgently needed, knew about it. Only later he got to know him as Elias had read the manuscript of The Merry Vineyard:

" Small, with a Chaplin -course, bushy brows and eyes flashing with excitement, he shot off like a rocket at you when you walked into his office [ ... ]. "Do you need money," was the greeting sentence he cried against me on my first visit, and he answered it immediately self: "Of course you need money! All young playwrights need money! But calm down, "he shouted, though I had not said anything yet, and stood still in amazement. " Calm down! Your piece will bring millions! Million, ". He threw up his hands to the sky like a biblical prophet, and then let it fall on my shoulder, which he paternally up looking, vigorous shaking to me. "

So Zuckmayer reported on the first meeting in As if it were a piece of me. In fact, Elias had correctly predicted that the young author with this gambling in Rheinhessen piece ( The Merry Vineyard ) would succeed the breakthrough.

Julius Elias was buried in the cemetery military road, the grave site, however, is dissolved.