Georg Köberle


Georg Köberle was a German author and dramatist.

Biography

He studied at the Augsburg Gymnasium and then at the Collegium Germanicum, Rome, from which he ran away. He next studied philosophy and law at Munich.
He went to Leipzig in 1846 where he published Aufzeichnungen eines Jesuitenzöglings im deutschen Kolleg in Rom, which created a sensation, and which he followed up in 1870 with Deutsche Antwort auf welsche Projekte: Enthüllungen über die Palastrevolution im Vatikan. His dramatic career commenced with his five-act play Die Mediceer, followed by the tragedy Heinrich IV von Frankreich. Later came the plays Des Künstlers Weihe, Zwischen Himmel und Erde, Max Emanuels Brautfahrt, George Washington, Die Heldin von Yorktown, etc. He was stage manager at Heidelberg 1853-56. He wrote Die Theaterkrisis im neuen deutschen Reich, which led to his being appointed director of the court theatre at Karlsruhe the same year.
He lived at Mannheim in 1873, then went to Vienna and Dresden and wrote Meine Erlebnisse als Hoftheaterdirektor, Berliner Leimruten und deutsche Gimpel, Brennende Theaterfragen, Der Verfall der deutschen Schaubühne und die Bewältigung der Theaterkalamität, Das Drangsal der deutschen Schaubühne. He also wrote the novel Alles um ein Nichts. The Archduke of Baden allowed him a pension of 5,000 marks annually.