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Otto Julius Bierbaum Biography

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BIERBAUM, Otto Julius (1865-1910). A German author, born at Grünberg, lower Silesia. He successively took up the studies of philosophy, Romance philology, history of art, and Oriental languages visiting the universities of Zurich, Leipzig, Munich, and Berlin. In 1892 he became editor of the Freie Bühne in Berlin (later the Neue Deutsche Rundschau), the publication of which he abandoned to found the art journal Pan, which, in collaboration with Julius Meyer-Graefe, he conducted till 1895. His publications include: Erlebte Gedichte (1892); Studentenbeichten (1897); Die Freiersfahrten und Freiersmeinungen des weiberfeindlichen Herrn Pankrazius Graunzer (1897); Der bunte Vogel von 1897, Ein Kalenderbuch (1896); Der bunte Vogel von 1899, Ein Kalenderbuch (1898); Irrgarten der Liebe (1901), a collection of poems; Stella. and Antonie, a drama (1903); Eine empfindsame Reise im Automobil (1903): Das Cenaele der Maulesel and Die Schlangendame, plays (1905): Urban, Die literarische Gegewart 20 Jahre deutschen Schriftums, 1888-1908 (Leipzig, 1908). A lighthearted, nature-loving spirit romps through his comedies and stories and breathes in his melodious lyrics. His collected works were published in 1908, and his reminiscences at Munich in 1912.