Otto Julius Birbaum ( German Otto Julius Bierbaum , also performed under the pseudonym Martin Möbius ; June 28, 1865 , Grünberg , Lower Silesia - February 1, 1910 , Dresden ) - German prose writer , journalist and librettist .
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Life and work
O. Yu. Birbaum grew up in Dresden and Leipzig. He studied philosophy, law and Chinese at the universities of Munich, Zurich, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1887, the Bursenschaft Corps Thuringia Leipzig entered the student fraternity. After graduation, writes feuilleton and reviews, then works as an editor, publishes the magazines New German Review, Pan, Ostrov. Until 1893, O. Yu. Birbaum lives in Munich and in Upper Bavaria, then often changes places of residence - Berlin, Tyrol, Italy, Eppan, Vienna. In 1900-1909 he again in Munich, from there he moved to Dresden.
He was a very versatile writer. The lyrics of O. Yu. Birbaum use the forms of minnesang , anacreontic poetry , and also folk songs (collections of poems Modernes Leben , 1892 and Irrgarten der Liebe , 1901). In 1896, his novel Woman Snake (Die Schlangendame) was published; in 1897, the novel Stilpe. A novel written from the perspective of a frog (Stilpe) , in 1898 - a collection of stories by Cactus and other stories of the artist (Kaktus und andere Künstlergeschichten) , in 1899 - a novel by Beauty from Pao (Das schöne Mädchen von Pao) , in 1903 - an essay as a traveler’s notes Sensitive travel in a car (Eine empfindsame Reise im Automobil) . It describes the trip made by the author and his wife in 1902 in an Adler car from Germany through Prague and Vienna to Italy, with the return route through Switzerland. Sensitive car travel is the first description of car travel in German language literature. On the way back, O. Yu. Birbaum becomes the first motorist to cross the St. Gotthard Pass by car.
The most significant librettos created by Birbaum are Lobetanz (1898, composer Ludwig Thuje ) and The Princess in Love (1904, composer Oscar von Schelius ). In 1905, O. U. Birbaum publishes his own version of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi - the novel Adventures of Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer . In the same year he published his collection of short stories Hellish car (Das höllische Automobil) .
Hirgo Alwen , Alban Berg , Bernard van Diren , Alma Mahler , Max Reger , Alexander von Tsemlinsky , Arnold Schoenberg , Richard Strauss and other composers wrote music to Birbaum’s poems ( [1] ).
Family
The first marriage of Otto Birbaum (1892), with the teacher Augusta (Gusti) Ratgeber (1872-1926) from Disen , broke up in the mid-1890s [4] . At this time, he worked in Munich on a libretto with composer and conductor Oscar Freed , with whom he had been friends for several years. The latter began an affair with his wife Birbaum, she left her husband and left with Fried in Paris (they married only in 1899, when she finally managed to formalize her divorce from Birbaum) [5] [6] [7] [8] . In 1901, Birbaum married the Florentine Gemma Prunetti-Lotti (1877-1925); their correspondence was published after the death of the writer in 1921 [9] [7] .
Literature
- Fritz Droop: Otto Julius Bierbaum, ein deutscher Lyriker . Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1912.
- Klaus Peter Muschol: Otto Julius Bierbaums dramatische Werke . Univ., München 1961.
- Peter Muschol: Otto Julius Bierbaum Dichter und Corpsstudent. 1865 bis 1910 . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2010,
- Dushan Stankovich: Otto Julius Bierbaum . Lang, Frankfurt aM 1971.
- Izabela Taraszczuk: Zwei Wege zur Kommunikation: Otto Julius Bierbaum und Georg Beuchelt. In: Bąkiewicz, Marta Jadwiga (Hrsg.): An der mittleren Oder. Eine Kulturlandschaft im deutsch-polnischen Grenzraum . Paderborn 2016, S. 246-264, ISBN 978-3-506-78288-5.
- William H. Wilkening: Otto Julius Bierbaum . Heinz, Stuttgart 1977.
- Otto Julius Bierbaum. Ein Beitrag zum 100. Todestages des in Grünberg geborenen Dichters und Schriftstellers , herausgegeben von der Sozial-kulturellen Gesellschaft der Deutschen Minderheit in Grünberg, 2010.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118510762 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Dirk Heißerer “Wo die Geister wandern: literarische Spaziergänge durch Schwabing” : Augusta Ratgeber, in addition to her teaching career, published children's poems.
- ↑ Musikalisches Wochenblatt: Dr. Alfred Guttmann : " Di Bierbaum'sche Ehe löste sich, Fried fand in der Frau seine Lebesgefährtin und musste darfür auf sein Werk versichten ."
- ↑ Henry-Louis de La Grange "Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)" : " In 1898 he returned to Berlin, got married and turned seriously to composition ."
- ↑ 1 2 Otto Julius Bierbaum, ein zu unrecht vergessener Autor : “Die Scheidung erfolgt 1899.”
- ↑ Krautwurst, Franz. Fried, Oskar (German) // Neue Deutsche Biographie. - 1961. - Bd. 5 . - S. 442 .
- ↑ Max Born “My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate” : Max Born , who knew Gemma Prunetti-Lotti before her marriage, mentions her attractive appearance in her later memoirs.
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