You are bidding on one typewritten, signed letter ofWriter, journalist and theater director Paul Lindau (1839-1919).
DatedDresden-Strehlen, 4. January 1893.
Addressed to an unnamed gentleman, whom he asks to return a letter "from Sullivan with a good signature."
Signed by hand with full name.
Format: 28.5x21cm.
Without envelope.
Condition: Sheet folded lengthwise and crosswise, with small tears in the fold. Paper browned, slightly stained and wrinkled. bplease note the pictures too!
Internal note: KRSt 210314
About Paul Lindau (Source: wikipedia):
Paul Lindau (* 3. June 1839 in Magdeburg; † 31. January 1919 in Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and theater director.
Life: Paul Lindau was born in Magdeburg as the son of the doctor and later judicial commissioner Carl Ferdinand Leopold Lindau, who had converted from Judaism to Protestantism, and Henriette Bernadine Müller. He had older siblings Anna, Salonnière, a writer and translator, and the writer and diplomat Rudolf. In 1847 the family moved to Berlin and Paul attended the Dorotheenstädtisches Realgymnasium. He then studied philosophy and literary history in Halle, Leipzig and Berlin from 1857 to 1859.
He then went to Paris, worked on a dissertation on Molière and met Victorien Sardou, Émile Augier and Alexandre Dumas the Elder. J., whose works he later translated into German.
After his return, he ran the Düsseldorfer Zeitung in 1864/65, the Elberfelder Zeitung in 1866/69, the Neue Blatt (Leipzig) in 1870 and the Bazar in Berlin. In 1871 he moved to the imperial capital and founded the weekly magazine Die Aktuell, which he ran until 1881. In 1877 he launched the monthly Nord und Süd, a magazine that presented considerable competition to Julius Rodenberg's Deutsche Rundschau. Lindau was able to attract almost all of the prominent authors of its time to its two periodicals, including Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Fontane, Karl Gutzkow, Paul Heyse, Friedrich Schrader and Gottfried Keller. He published North and South until 1904.
Lindau also devoted herself intensively to the theater. In 1895 he was appointed director of the court theater in Meiningen, which he headed until his resignation in 1899. Returning to Berlin, he was director of the Berlin Theater from 1900 to 1903. Between 1909 and 1917 Lindau was a dramaturge at the Royal Theater. He experimented with the artistic possibilities of film early on. Based on his play of the same name, he wrote the script for the film The Other with Albert Bassermann in the leading role. Max Mack directed this film, which is considered the first German auteur film and helped the new medium achieve an artistic breakthrough.
Lindau enjoyed great audience success as a playwright between 1870 and 1880, especially with his second play “Maria and Magdalena”. He also had a wide readership as a novelist - especially with his novel cycle Berlin (1886–1888) - and travel writer.
In the autumn of 1873 he married Anna Kalisch (1853–1919), a daughter of the writer and Kladderadatsch journalist David Kalisch, in Berlin. He had a son, Hans Lindau.
Lindau was at times considered the pope of criticism in Berlin, but was also heavily attacked at times because of an affair with the actress Elsa von Schabelsky. He also benefited from the contacts and influence of his brother Rudolf Lindau, a successful politician and publicist.
factories
From Veneto. A summer trip, Düsseldorf 1864. On-line
From Paris. Contributions to the characteristics of contemporary France, Stuttgart, Kröner 1865. On-line
(Anonymous) Harmless letters from a small German townsman. 2 vols. Leipzig, Payne 1870–1871. (Digitized volume 1), (Volume 2)
Moliere. A supplement to the poet's biography from his works, diss. Rostock 1871. On-line
Literary ruthlessness. Feuilletonistic and polemical essays. Leipzig, Barth 1872. On-line
Marion, Drama, Elberfeld, Lucas (1873). On-line
Diana, drama, Leipzig, metzger u. Wittig 1873. On-line
Pleasure trips. Occasional Records, 1875. On-line
Collected Essays. Contributions to contemporary literary history, 1875. On-line
Aunt Therese, play, Berlin, Stilke 1875. On-line
A success, comedy, Berlin, Bloch 1875
The bone of contention, Schwank, Leipzig, Teubner 1875
Sober letters from Bayreuth, Breslau, Scotland 1876. On-line
St. John's shoot, drama, Leipzig, Teubner, 1877. On-line
Unnecessary letters to a friend. Collected feature articles, Breslau, Scotland 1877. On-line
Alfred de Musset, Berlin, Hofmann 1877. On-line
Bashful work, drama, Berlin, Freund and Jeckel 1881
From literary France. Breslau, Scotland 1882
Ferdinand Lassalle's last speech. A personal memory. Breslau, Scotland 1882. On-line
The murder of lawyer Bernays. Breslau, Scotland 1883 (online edition on EBLOX)
Toggenburg and other stories. Breslau: S. Schottlaender 1883
From the new World. Letters from the Eastern and Western United States. Berlin, Salomon 1885. On-line
In flight. Occasional recordings. Leipzig, Dürselen (1886) (digital copy 2. ed.)
Berlin. 1st–3rd Row. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1886–1888.
The train to the West. (digital copy)
Poor girls. (digital copy)
Sharpen. (digital copy)
The two Leonors, comedy, Breslau 1888
Wonderful people. Little stories. Breslau 1888.
Interesting cases. Recent criminal trials. Breslau, Scotland 1888
From the Orient. Volatile records. Breslau, Scotland 1890. On-line
The sun, drama, Berlin, Entsch 1891
Father Adrian and other stories. Wroclaw, Schles. Literary, art and publishing department 1893
Old and new from the New World. A journey through the United States and Mexico. 2 vols. Berlin, Duncker 1893. (Digital copy) Reprint: Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-437-1
The Other, Play, New York, Goldmann 1893. On-line
Hanging Moss, Roman, Breslau, Schles. Literary, art and publishing department 1893. On-line
A yacht trip to Norway: days and nights in the mild north. Breslau, Scotland 1895
The Brothers, Roman, Dresden et al., Reissner 1896
Holidays in the Orient. Diary sheets from Greece, European Türkiye and Asia Minor. Berlin, Fontane and Co, 1899
On the west coast of Asia Minor. A summer cruise on the Aegean Sea. Berlin, General. Association for German Literature 1900
Excursions into criminology. Munich, Langen 1909. On-line
Just memories. 2 vols. Stuttgart et al., Cotta 1916–1917. Online Vol.1, Vol.2
Filmography (selection)
1910: Father and Son (screenplay)
1913: The Other (screenplay)
1913: The Last Day (screenplay)
1913: The Country Road (screenplay)
1916: The Tragedy at Rottersheim Castle (screenplay)
1918: The Blue Lantern (original)
1918: The Ruby Salamander (original)
1919: The Path of Grete Lessen (original)
1920: Lace (original)
1930: The Other (original)
1930: Love shamrock (original)