Max Waldau
Max Waldau (actually Richard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild, * March 25, 1825 in Breslau, † January 20, 1855 on Good Tscheidt, today Szczyty in Upper Silesia ) was a German writer, who always appeared in literature under this pseudonym.
Life, work and impact
The young nobles lost early his father, was domesticated, then brought up to high school and studied at the University of Breslau Jura, was the way the Corps Silesia active, devoted but soon philosophical, philological and historical studies at the University of Heidelberg, where he became Dr. phil. but his doctorate, further academic plans abandoned. After extensive travel ( Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Italy ), he retired to the downcast Revolution of 1848 as a Liberal to his estate in Upper Silesia, where he died unexpectedly early.
Waldau published from 1847 poetry and prose, a short epic ( Cordula ) to win in time usual well-kept, artistic not particularly great shape, without a dedicated readership. He became the "Young Germany " close.
He was editorially thereby effectively that he the fact extremely cautious old Leopold Schefer drew his best poetry as a friend and these realistic and original love poems placed despite the already highly vermuckerten in the 1850s literary atmosphere at Julius Campe in the liberal Hamburg - anonymously, of course (1853 " Hafiz in Hellas ", 1855 "Koran of Love" ).
His estate on Good Tscheidt has been lost in the fighting of 1945.