Biography

Paul Lindau was born on June 3, 1839 in Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Il caso Haller (1933), Die blaue Laterne (1918) and Der Andere (1913). He was married to Anna Kalisch and Marie Hedwig Bronkhorst. He died on January 31, 1919 in Berlin, Germany.

Playwright, novelist and travel writer. At one time worked as a foreign correspondent. From 1899, manager of the Berlin Theatre and, later, the Deutsches Theater.

The world of the theater also fascinated Paul Lindau and in 1895 he became the director of the Hoftheater Meiningen. Eight years later he also became the director of the Berliner Theater. In this time he wrote many plays for the stage and was - in contrast to many other established artists in those days - enthusiastic about the new medium film.

Besides this activity Paul Lindau was also successful as a novelist.

The writer and screen writer Paul Lindau went to Paris where he studied philosophy and history of literature. There he met the writers Sardou, Augier and Alexandre Dumas fils. He later translated books for these writers into German.

When he returned to Germany he managed several newspapers before he founded his own weekly paper called "Die Gegenwart" in 1871 which was published till 1881. In 1878 followed a second publications called "Nord und Süd" which was published till 1904.