Ludwig Fulda

Fulda, Ludwig (Frankfurt/Main, 1862-1939, Berlin), studied German literature at Heidelberg, Berlin, and Leipzig universities, obtaining his doctorate for a thesis on Christian Weise. He began writing plays in his twenties. He lived mainly in Berlin, and in 1928 became deputy president of the Sektion für Dichtung of the Preussische Akademie der Künste. Fulda, who was of Jewish descent, took his own life in 1939.

In his early years as a writer he was regarded as one of the great hopes of Naturalism (see Naturalismus), which he vigorously supported, playing a leading role in the Freie Bühne; but his output consists in the main of fluent verse plays or neat drawing-room plays. His first play, a Künstlerdrama, was on the poet J. C. Günther (Christian Günther, 1882); he gained his initial success with a one-act verse comedy, Die Aufrichtigen (1883). Fulda was an extremely prolific author. Works which merit special mention include Unter vier Augen (1887), Das Recht der Frau (1888), Das verlorene Paradies (1892), Die Sklavin (1892), Der Talisman (which was nominated for the Schiller prize by the committee, but vetoed by the Emperor Wilhelm II in 1903), Die Kameraden (1895), Jugendfreunde (1898), and Maskerade (1904). He was an industrious translator (Molière's works, 1897, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, 1898, Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1913, Ibsen's Peer Gynt, 1915, and two volumes of Spanish comedies, 1926). Ludwig Fulda. Briefwechsel 1882-1939. Zeugnisse des Literarischen Lebens in Deutschland (2 vols.), ed. B. Gajek and W. von Ungern-Sternberg with a preface by Golo Mann, appeared in 1982-9.

Ludwig Fulda

Ludwig Fulda, really Ludwig Anton Salomon (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939), German writer, was born in Frankfurt.

Fulda committed suicide in Berlin in 1939.

External links

• Works by Ludwig Fulda at Project Gutenberg

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