Rudolf Lothar

Lothar Rudolf ( born February 23, 1865 in Budapest, † October 2, 1943 in Budapest; actually Rudolf Lothar Spitzer, pseudonym also Rudolph) was an Austrian writer, critic, essayist, playwright and librettist.

Life

Lothar first studied law in Vienna and later philosophy and philology at Jena, Rostock and Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1890. After that, he lived for some time in Paris, where he joined the acquaintance of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. 1889-1907 he was features staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna; 1898-1902 he was out of there own weekly journal entitled The Wage. 1907-1912 Lothar worked as an editor at the local indicator in Berlin, where he founded the 1912 comedy house. Extensive travels lead him to Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Palestine and the United States. From 1933 he worked as theater critic of the New Viennese journal; after the "Anschluss " in 1938, he fled from the Nazis in Hungary.

Rudolf Lothar wrote more than 60 plays, opera and operetta libretti, which he, for example, Johann Strauss encouraged his ballet Cinderella, as well as stories, novels and essays. He was a friend of Arthur Schnitzler and has 1918/1919 involved together with Georg von Seybel for the German -language world premiere of James Joyce's play Exiles.

Works

Dramas

  • The disguised king. Drama. 1891
  • King Harlequin. Masque. 1900
  • The Three Graces. Comedy. 1910
  • Casanova's son. Comedy. 1920
  • The werewolf. Comedy. 1921
  • The good Europeans. Comedy. 1927
  • The parrot. Comedy. 1931
  • Visit from beyond the grave. Drama. 1931

Libretti

  • Lowlands. Music drama in a prologue and two lifts. Music: Eugen d' Albert. UA November 15, 1903 Prague ( New German Theatre)
  • Love chains opera by Eugen d' Albert to literary work " La filla del mar" by Ángel Guimerà. UA on November 12, 1912 at the Volksoper Wien
  • The Free corporal. Comic opera in 3 acts ( 5 pictures) (after Gustav Freytag ). Music: Georg Vollerthun. UA November 10, 1931 Hannover
  • Friedemann Bach. Opera in 3 acts ( based on the novel by Albert Emil curlew Music:. . Graener Paul UA November 13, 1931 Schwerin

Narrative and essayistic prose

  • Critical studies on the psychology of literature. 1895
  • The Vienna Burgtheater. Publisher Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1899
  • The journey into the blue. Novel. 1908
  • Kurfürstendamm. Novel. 1910
  • The Lord of Berlin. Novel. 1910
  • The soul of Spain. 1916
  • The art of seduction. A handbook of love. With drawings and original lithographs by Lutz Ehrenberg. 1925
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