Paul Lindau

Paul Lindau ( born June 3, 1839 in Magdeburg, † January 31, 1919 in Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and theater director.

Life

Paul Lindau was born the son of the doctor and later Justice Commissioner Carl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau, who had converted from Judaism to Protestantism, and Henriette Müller Bernadine in Magdeburg. His older brother is the writer and diplomat Rudolf Lindau. 1847 the family moved to Berlin, and Paul visited the Dorotheenstädtische secondary school. Subsequently, he studied from 1857 to 1859 Philosophy and History of Literature in Halle, Leipzig and Berlin.

He then went to Paris, working on a dissertation on Molière and learned Victorien Sardou, Émile Augier and Alexandre Dumas, fils know whose works he translated into German later.

After his return, he headed 1864/65 Düsseldorf newspaper in 1866 /69 Elberfelder Zeitung, 1870, the New Journal (Leipzig ) and the bazaar in Berlin. In 1871 he moved to the capital and was founded here by the weekly journal The presence, which he headed until 1881. In 1877 he founded the monthly magazine North and South magazine to life, which greatly prepared competitors of Deutsche Rundschau of Julius Rodenberg. Lindau has won almost all the prominent writers of his time for his two periodicals, Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Fontane, Karl Gutzkow, Paul Heyse, Friedrich Schrader and Gottfried Keller. North and South, he edited until 1904.

The way to Lindau devoted himself intensely to the theater. In 1895 he was appointed director of the court theater at Meiningen, which he headed until his retirement in 1899. On his return to Berlin he was here from 1900 to 1903 director of the Berlin theater. Between 1909 and 1917 Lindau was dramaturge of the royal theater. Early on, he experimented with the artistic possibilities of film. So he wrote after his eponymous drama the screenplay for the film The Others with Albert Bassermann in the lead role. Max Mack has directed this movie, which is considered the first German auteur film and the new medium of artistic to break through.

Large audience successes celebrated Lindau as a playwright 1870-1880 especially with his second play " Maria and Magdalena ". Even as a novelist - especially with his novel cycle Berlin (1886-1888) - and travel writer, he had a wide readership.

In the fall of 1873 he married Anna Kalisch in Berlin, a daughter of the writer and journalist David Kalisch Kladderadatsch. He had a son, Hans Lindau.

Lindau was at times a critic Pope in Berlin, but was temporarily violently attacked also because of an affair with the actress Elsa of Schabelsky. He also benefited from the contacts and the influence of his brother Rudolf Lindau, a successful politician and publicist.

Works

  • From Veneto. A summer trip, Dusseldorf 1864
  • From Paris. Contributions to the characteristics of the current France, Stuttgart, Kröner 1865
  • (Anonymous) Harmless Letters of a small German city dweller. 2 vols Leipzig, Payne 1870-1871
  • Molière. A supplement to the biography of the poet from his works, Diss Rostock 1871
  • Literary recklessness. Feuilletonist and polemical essays. Leipzig, Barth 1872
  • Marion, Drama, Elberfeld, Lucas ( 1873)
  • Diana, drama, Leipzig, Metzger and Wittig 1873
  • Junkets. Occasional records, 1875
  • Collected Essays. Contributions to the literary history of the present, 1875
  • Aunt Therese, drama, Berlin, Cordier 1875
  • A success, comedy, Berlin, Bloch 1875
  • The bone of contention, Schwank, Leipzig, Teubner 1875
  • Sober Letters from Bayreuth, Wroclaw, Schottlaender 1876
  • St. John's sprout, drama, Leipzig, Teubner, 1877
  • About Liquid letters to a friend. Collected feature articles, Wroclaw, Schottlaender 1877
  • Alfred de Musset, Berlin, Hofmann 1877
  • Shamefaced work, drama, Berlin, friend and Jeckel 1881
  • From the literary France. Wroclaw, Schottlaender 1882
  • Ferdinand Lassalle 's last speech. A personal memory. Wroclaw, Schottlaender 1882
  • The Assassination of Advocaten Bernays. Wroclaw, Schottlaender 1883
  • Toggenburg and other stories. Wroclaw: S. Schottlaender 1883
  • From the New World. Letters from the East and West of the United States. Berlin, Salomon 1885
  • In flight. Occasional records. Leipzig, Dürselen (1886? )
  • Berlin. 1st - 3rd Series. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1886-1888 The train to the West. 2 vols
  • Poor girls. 2 vols
  • Tips. 2 vols
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