Wilhelm Meyer-Förster
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Wilhelm Meyer-Förster a.k.a. Samar Gregorow (12 June 1862 in Hannover; - 17 March 1934 in Heringsdorf) was a German novelist and playwright.
, afterwards in Berlin
. At the age of 23, he wrote his first novel. Later he also wrote many dramas. He reached his height of popularity at the beginning of the 20th century.
His best-known work, Alt Heidelberg (Old Heidelberg in English) was adapted many times on film
, and as the Sigmund Romberg
operetta The Student Prince
.
Biography
The son of a bookseller, he first studied law, then the history of art. He later decided upon a literary career, however much his age might have rendered him young and impressionable. From 1890 to 1898 he lived in ParisParis
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, afterwards in Berlin
Berlin
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. At the age of 23, he wrote his first novel. Later he also wrote many dramas. He reached his height of popularity at the beginning of the 20th century.
His best-known work, Alt Heidelberg (Old Heidelberg in English) was adapted many times on film
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, also known as The Student Prince and Old Heidelberg, is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1927 silent film based on a novel by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster. Ernst Lubitsch directed the picture...
, and as the Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
operetta The Student Prince
The Student Prince
The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Alt Heidelberg. The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works...
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Works
- 1885 Die Saxo-Saxonen (Novel)
- 1897 Die Fahrt um die Erde (Novel)
- 1898 Alltagsleute (Novel)
- 1901 Heidenstamm (Novel)
- 1903 Elschen auf der Universität
- 1903 Alt-Heidelberg (Play)
- 1923 Durchlaucht v. Gleichenberg (Novel)