Erik-Ernst Schwabach (1891-1938) : : Verleger, Autor und Mäzen des Expressionismus / / Peter Widlok.

• VerfasserIn: Widlok, Peter, 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: Köln : : Böhlau Verlag,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages) :; illustrations

Around 1912, Erik-Ernst Schwabach appeared out of nowhere in the literary milieu of Leipzig. The banker's heir initially acted as a supporter of the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff. The "White Sheets" he published quickly became the most important journal. His network included almost all Expressionist authors. Driven by great literary ambition, he appeared as an author himself. Many contemporaries saw him only as a patron and, like Walter Hasenclever, as a "code for money". Alfred Kerr nostalgically remembered the magnificent celebrations at Schwabach's beloved Marchdorf Castle. Heinrich Mann, Franz Blei, Otto Flake, Carl Hauptmann, Else Lasker-Schüler, Max Herrmann and many other writers came together here and in his fashionable salon in Berlin. When Schwabach lost his enormous fortune in inflation, his dramatic fall began. He tried his hand as an author of the "literary world" and had to auction off his valuable library and the palace furnishings. After 1933 the son of a converted Jew went to London as a screenwriter, where he died in poverty. The biography rescues a forgotten protagonist from the German literary scene from oblivion.