Otto Julius Bierbaum - Works

Writer and journalist, born in Grünberg, Silesia. Highly versatile in output, he was a literary critic and editor/publisher of the journals Die freie Bühne, Die Insel and Moderner Musenalmanach. His poems range in style from anacreontics and ‘Minnesang’ to Romanticism, and include Erlebte Gedichte (1892) and Nemt, Frouwe, disen Kranz (1894). Among his novels are Pankrazius Grauner (1895), Prinz Kuckuck (1906–07), and Stilpe (1897), notable for providing the impulse for the founding of the ‘Überbrettl’ cabaret.

Otto Julius Bierbaum (June 28, 1865, Grünberg/Zielona Góra, Lower Silesia - February 1, 1910, Kötzschenbroda, near Dresden) was a German writer.

After studying in Leipzig Bierbaum became journalist and editor for the journals Die freie Bühne, Pan and Die Insel.

In 1897 Bierbaum published his novel Stilpe which animated Ernst von Wolzogen to establish the cabaret Überbrettl in Berlin.

Works

Die Schlangendame (1896) Das schöne Mädchen von Pao (1899) Eine empfindsame Reise im Automobil (1903) Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer (1905) Yankeedoodlefahrt (1909) Prinz Kuckuck - Leben, Taten, Meinungen und Höllenfahrt eines Wollüstlings