Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 writer and a poet with a strong social commitment.

Biography

He was born in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts

Prussian Academy of Arts

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 and the first president of the PEN

International PEN

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 of Germany (1925–1932). Due to being jewish he was removed from his work by the Nazis in 1933. Fulda committed suicide in Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1939 when he was denied entry into the United States.

Works

His creations use the relationships of his characters to develop the social and political issues of his time. Fulda's work include Der Talisman (1892), Jugenfreunde (1897) and Maskerade (1904). His novel Der Seeräuber was later freely adapted into the play The Pirate by S. N. Behrman

S. N. Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter, who also worked for the New York Times.-Early Years:...

. Inpired by the story of Aladdin

Aladdin

Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....

, he wrote Aladdin und die for Wunderlampe. He also made ​​numerous translations.

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