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LAUFF, JOSEF (1855- )

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 281 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAUFF, JOSEF (1855- ) ,
German
  poet and dramatist, was born at Cologne on the 16th of November 1855, the son of a jurist. He was educated at Munster in Westphalia, and entering the army served as a
lieutenant
  of artillery at
Thorn
  and subsequently at Cologne, where he attained the rank of captain in 1189o. In 1898 he was summoned by the
German
  emperor,
William IL, to Wiesbaden, being at the same time promoted to major's rank, in order that he might devote his
great
  dramatic talents to the royal theatre. His literary career began with the epic poems Jan van Calker, ein Malerlied vom Niederrhein (1887, 3rd ed., 1892) and Der Helfensteiner, ein Sang aus dem Bauernkriege (3rd ed., 1896). These were followed by Die Overstolzin (5th ed., 1900), Herodias (2nd ed., 1898) and the Geislerin (4th ed., 1902). He also wrote the novels Die Hexe (6th ed., 1900),
Regina
  coeli (a story of the fall of the Dutch Republic) (7th ed., 1904), Die Hauptmannsfrau (8th ed., 1903) and Marie Verwahnen (19o3). But he is best known as a dramatist. Beginning with the tragedy Ignez de
Castro
  (1894), he proceeded to dramatize the
great
  monarchs of his country, and, in a
Hohenzollern
  tetralogy, issued Der Burggraf (1897, 6th ed. 1900) and Der Eisenzahn (1900), to be followed by Der grosse Kurfurst (The Great Elector) and
Friedrich
  der Grosse (Frederick the Great).
See A. Schroeter, Josef Lauff, Ein litterarisches Zeitbild (1899), and B.
Sturm
 , Josef Lauff (1903).


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