Otto Ernst Schmidt (October 7, 1862, Ottensen, Hamburg - March 5, 1926, Coffin Flottbek, Hamburg) is a German writer and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym Otto Ernst.
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Biography
He was born in a working class family with a cigar factory and grew up in poverty, had to become a craftsman, but under the influence of his teacher began to prepare for pedagogical activity. Having received education, since 1883 he worked as a teacher in a number of Hamburg elementary schools and then in a female school.
In 1887, he married his colleague, had five children in marriage with her. In 1891 he joined the Hamburg Literary Society.
In 1893, together with Leo Berg and Konstantin Brunner, he founded the literary and critical journal Der Zuschauer .
In 1903, he and his family moved to the Coffin Flottbek.
His poems, published in 1889, brought him the Schiller Prize; then he turned to literary essays (“Offenes Visier”, 1890, and “Buch der Hoffnung”, 1897) and small humorous stories and feuilletones that were successful and collected under the headings:
- "Aus verborgenen Tiefen" (1891);
- Narrenfest (1895);
- Kartäuser Geschichten (1896);
- Hamborger Schippergeschichten (1890);
- "Ein frohes Farbenspiel" (1900).
Great success was also his comedy "Jugend von heute".
The drama Die grösste Sünde (1895), which received the lively approval of experts, could not be put on stage due to its anti-church content.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118682342 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
Literature
- Schmidt, Otto-Ernst // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.