Rudolf Lothar
Encyclopedia
Rudolf Lothar [rú:dolf ló:tar] (born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer, February 25, 1865, Budapest
- died October 2, 1943, Budapest) was a Hungarian
-born Austrian
writer
, playwright
, critic
and essayist.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
- died October 2, 1943, Budapest) was a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
-born Austrian
Austrians
Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, critic
Critic
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and essayist.
Literary works
- 1891 Der verschleierte König, drama
- 1900 König Harlekin, play
- 1900 Das Wiener Burgtheater
- 1904 TieflandTiefland (opera)Tiefland is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Eugen d'Albert, to a libretto in German by Rudolph Lothar. Based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà, Tiefland was d'Albert's seventh opera, and is the one which is now the best known.-Performance history:Tiefland was first...
, opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'AlbertEugen d'AlbertEugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...
, based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà - 1910 Kurfürstendamm, novel
- 1910 Die drei Grazien, comedy
- 1910 Der Herr von Berlin, novel
- 1912 Liebesketten, opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'AlbertEugen d'AlbertEugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...
based on Angel GuimeráÀngel GuimeràÀngel Guimerà i Jorge was a Spanish Canarian writer, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, to a Catalan father and a Canary islander mother...
’s Villa del mar, score available from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection - 1916 Die Seele Spaniens
- 1920 Casanovas Sohn, comedy
- 1920 Li-Tai-Pe, Des Kaisers Dichter, opera libretto set to music by Clemens von Franckenstein
- 1921 Der Werwolf, comedy
- 1925 Die Kunst des Verführens
- 1927 Der gute Europäer, comedy
- 1927 Die Republik befiehlt, comedy
- 1931 Friedemann Bach, opera libretto set to music by Paul GraenerPaul GraenerPaul Graener was a German composer and conductor.-Biography:Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy soprano, he taught himself composition and in 1896 moved to London, where he gave private lessons and served briefly as conductor at the Haymarket Theatre...
based on Brachvogel's novel of the same name - 1931 Der Papagei, comedy
- 1931 Besuch aus dem Jenseits, drama