Michael Georg Conrad
Michael Georg Conrad ( born April 5, 1846 in Gnodstadt / Lower Franconia, † December 20, 1927 in Munich) was a German writer of naturalism.
Life
Conrad was the eldest son of a farmer from Gnodstadt Market Wide / Main. He only attended the teacher training college in Altdorf near Nuremberg to study pedagogy. Later were added the subjects philosophy and modern philology. Conrad later moved to the universities of Geneva, Naples and Paris. He graduated in 1868 from a PhD.
In the same year he went for two years to Geneva to teach there as a teacher at the German Lutheran school. He has been recorded in February 1870 in the Masonic Lodge L' Union des coeurs. 1870/71 he undertook to Italy, where he lived until 1878. There he was active Freemason, inter alia, as co-founder and master of the chair of the German box Pestalozzi. In 1878 he moved to Paris, where he remained for five years and worked at the Institute polyglot as a lecturer. The last year of his France - stay he worked for the most part in the Paris office of the Frankfurter Zeitung.
1883 he moved to Munich. Here Conrad became very soon a central figure of the naturalist movement. As a literary critic and publicist, as well as editor and publisher of the magazine The Company Conrad influenced the intellectual climate of Munich very much.
Beginning of 1885 he founded the Society for modern life together with Karl Bleibtreu. The club newspaper, the company from the beginning was the principal organ of the "Munich naturalism ". As editor, he led them for nearly ten years, until he resigned this office in 1893. In this magazine Conrad stepped in numerous essays, editorials and reviews a especially for the purposes of realism and naturalism renewed German literature, but also society. He was the painter Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach and Lebensreformer close, for which he repeatedly campaigned lively, and also supported the temporary adepts Gustav Arthur ( Gusto ) grasses, the co-founder of dropouts settlement Monte Verità above Ascona.
Conrad wrote not always under his real name. He often used a pseudonym: Arthur Feldmann, Hans Frank, Fritz Hammer, Ignotus, Erich steel, Erwin storm and Vult.
1887 Conrad married his second wife, the Munich court actress and writer Marie Ramlo, which also published under the name Marie Conrad Ramlo.
In the years 1893-1898, he was a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Middle Franconia 3 ( Ansbach, Schwabach ) for the German People's Party in the German Reichstag.
At the age of 81 years, Michael Georg Conrad died on 20 December 1927 in Munich. His tomb is located in the cemetery of Gnodstadt.
Works
- For public education question in the German Empire, free educational- sociale studies and reform proposals to promote educational science and enlightenment of the people, 1871
- The box at the Kulturkampf, 1875
- "More light." Critical Reflections on Freemasonry, 1877
- Lutetia daughters, narrative, 1883
- Bad company, realistic short stories, 1885
- The emancipated, comedy, 1888
- What the Isar rushes, novel in three volumes, 1888 1 What rushes the Isar
- 2 The Wise Virgins
- 3 The confession of a fool