LINDAU, PAUL (1839 )

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LINDAU, PAUL (1839 ) , German dramatist and novelist, the son of a

Protestant

PROTESTANT

pastor, was born at Magdeburg on the 3rd of June 1839. He was educated at the gymnasium in

Halle

and subsequently in

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and Berlin. He spent five years in Paris to further his studies, acting meanwhile as foreign correspondent to German papers. After his return to Germany in 1863 he was engaged in journalism in Dusseldorf and Elberfeld. In 187o he founded Das neue Blatt at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

; from 1872 to 1881 he edited the Berlin weekly, Die Gegenwart; and in 1878
he founded the well-known monthly, Nord und which he continued to edit until 1904. Two books of travel, Aus Venetien (Dusseldorf, 1864) and Aus Paris (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, 1865), were followed by some volumes of

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

studies, written in a light, satirical vein, which at once made him famous. These were Harmlose Briefe eines deutschen Kleinstddters (Leipzig, 2 vols., 1870), Moderne Mdrchen fur grosse Kinder (Leipzig, 1870) and Literarische Riicksichtslosigkeiten (Leipzig, 1871). He was appointed intendant of the court theatre at

Meiningen

MEININGEN

in 1895, but removed to Berlin in 1899, where he became manager of the Berliner Theater, and subsequently, until- 1905, of the Deutsches Theater. He had begun his dramatic career in 1868 with Marion, the first of a long

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of plays in which he displayed a remarkable talent for stage effect and a command of witty and lively dialogue. Among the more famous were Maria and Magdalena (1872), Tante Therese (1876), Grdfin Lea (1879), Die Erste (1895), Der Abend (1896), Der Herr im Hause (1899), So ich dir (1903), and he adapted many plays by Dumas, Augier and Sardou for the German stage. Five volumes of his plays have been published (Berlin, 18731888). Some of his volumes of short stories acquired

great

GREAT

popularity, notably Herr and Frau Bewer (Breslau, 1882) and Toggenburg and andere Geschichten (Breslau, 1883). A novel-sequence entitled Berlin included Der Zug nach dem Westen (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, 1886, roth ed. 1903), Arme Mddchen (1887, 9th ed. 1905) and Spitzen (1888, 8th ed. 1904). Later novels were Die Gehilfin (Breslau, 1894), Die Brudee (Dresden., 1895),
Der

Konig

KONIG, KARL RUDOLPH (1832-1901)

von Sidon (Breslau, 1898). His earlier books on Moliere (Leipzig, 1871) and Alfred de Musset (Berlin, 1877) were followed by some volumes of dramatic and literary criticism, Gesammelte Aufsdtze (Berlin, 1875), Dramaturgische Bldtter (Stuttgart, 2 vols., 1875; new

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, Breslau, 1878, 2 vols.), Vorspiele auf dem Theater (Breslau, 1895).
His brother, RUDOLF LINDAU (b. 1829), was a well-known diplomatist and author. His novels and tales were collected in 1893 (Berlin, 6 vols.). The most attractive, such as Reisegefdhrten and Der lange Hollander, deal with the life of European residents in the Far

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

.
See Hadlich, Paul Lindau als dramatischer Dichter (2nd ed., Berlin, 1876).

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