Oskar Jerschke

Oskar Jerschke ( born July 17, 1861 in Lähn, Silesia, † August 24, 1928 in Berlin) was a German dramatist.

Life

Jerschke was born the son of a military engineer, and grew up in the rectory of his uncle until he moved with his father to Strasbourg. There and in Berlin he studied law. Later he settled as a lawyer in Strasbourg.

After the first world war followed Jerschkes expulsion from Alsace and he moved to Berlin, where he 1905 tragicomedy Traumulus published with his childhood friend Arno Holz, had great success and was later made ​​into a movie.

Works

• German ways (together with Arno Holz ), 1884
• My German Fatherland (1916 )