About Max MARSCHALK AND MORITZ HEIMANN

Max Marschalk (April 7, 1863 in Berlin, August 24, 1940 in Pobierowo) was a composer as well as a music critic and publisher. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, worked as a music critic from 1885 and promoted musicians of his time with his writings. He was also a vocal teacher and until 1934 director of the Dreililien music publisher, in which he published not only several of his own works and songs, such as the accompanying music for Gerhart Hauptmann's plays, but also the music of many turn-of-the-century composers such as Gustav Mahler. Composers from Silesia, such as Anna Teichmüller from the circle of artists in the Giant Mountains, have also published their works in the "Dreililien Verlag". In addition to the music for “Hannele”, the “Sunken Bell” or “Pipa dances!” And “Schluck und Jauch” by Gerhart Hauptmann, he has written operas (“Das Wichtelchen”), the romantic song play “Aukassin und Nikolete”, music for the fairy tale play by Gabriele Reuter "Das böse Prinzesschen", numerous songs and symphonic music ("Eine Nachtmusik: für large orchestra" op.32). His students included mezzo-soprano Margarete Klose.

Moritz Heimann (July 19, 1868 in Werder, Niederbarnim district - September 22, 1935 in Kagel near Bradenburg), writer and critic of Jewish origin, who was associated with the Hauptmann and Marschalk families.

In 1901 he married Gertrud Marschalk (thereafter Heimann), sister of Max Marschalk. Another sister of Max Marschalk, Margarete, becomes the wife of Gerhart Hauptmann, so Max and Gerhart are each brother-in-law of Moritz Heimann. Heimann came from a family of merchants and studied philology and philosophy in Berlin (1886-1890). It was the time when Otto Brahm directed the “Freie Bühne” theater association, which had just been founded by theater critics in Berlin and was committed to the performance of socially critical dramas by the naturalists. The first piece was staged by Ibsen, soon followed by the premiere of Hauptmanns Before Sunrise. Brahm took over the management of the Deutsches Theater in 1894 and made Hauptmann his house poet. Max Reinhardt started in the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in 1894. Moritz Heimann was also supported by Otto Brahm, but also by Gerhart Hauptmann. He became an editor at S.Fischer Verlag in 1895 through the agency of the two, where he remained until death. From 1895 he wrote reviews and essays of unmistakable judgment and quiet authority for the “Neue (Deutsche) Rundschau”. His own work increasingly receded from his devoted work for foreign creations. He earned his greatest merit as a discoverer of new talents, including Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse, as well as Friedrich Huch, Hermann Stehr, Emil Strauß and Jakob Wassermann, who portrayed him in his novel "The Fall Maurizius" (1928). The onset of Expressionism was also promoted by Heimann, who had published pioneering dramatic works of the new direction since 1912. Heimann thus had an undisclosed but decisive share in the career of modern German literature, to which he sacrificed his work in his own works.

Selected works: Der Frauerschreck, Lustspiel, 1896; The Love School, Drama, 1905; Parables (4 short stories), 1905; , Joachim v. Brandt, Comedy, 1908; , The enemy and brother, tragedy, 1911; Novellas, 1913; Aphorisms, 1918; Armand Carrell, drama 1920; The woman d. Akiba, Drama, 1922; Die Spindel, Ausw., 1937;

It appears in Gerhart Hauptmann's “Book of Passion”. He himself wrote about Captain “A poet. A seer. Honor Gerhart Hauptmann ”.