The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-11
GERM.fN JOURNALISTS.
An Evening with the Berlin Press sociotv
Men OF Mark.

BERLIN, Juno 15-Thcsc festival evcniny,
Of the Press Society, ms they arc called M,
among the plcasantcst entertainments n whlo,
/ have participated since my residence abroad.
The first man likely to attract attention il Dar.
thold Aucrbach. author OF On the Heights,
and the Village Tales" As you glance atths
bright eyes the rudy. brdnzcd complexion.
and the we'll knit figure. you will hardly believe
that Aucrbach but recently celebrated his sixty,
NTH birthday. for in spite OF the gray hair
n little thin Mt the forohcad-and beard. he does
not look dav over fifty. He is n capitll ialker.
and the bright savings which ho scattcrs about
so lavshy would keep an average book mixer
busy for at least n year. Aucrbach writes but
little for the newspapers nowadays.
Not far from Aucrbach one sces the most sue
cessful editor and dramatist of the day-paul
Lindau. Although German. he Is often
taken for n native OF France.
Lindau Ia only thirty seven. Fifteen years
ago he was local reporter on provincial
journal; now he edits the Geoen,rori. pot-
ical and literary weekly OF large circulation
and Influence. and Nord uni sud. months
" review. Everything he writes is Put into
book form, and not one OF his books fails 10 20
through numhcr OF editions. Ten editions v
his inimitahle Sober Letters from Bryreuth'
have already been sold. As u playwright Lin-
dnu is hardly less successful-hls. comedies.
"ASucccss and Mnra and Magdalenn." hays
Berlin Court Theatre To- the strolling trOupcs in
the villages Of Bohemia.
Leaving Iindau to converse with MS hhnl-
some wife. n daughter of Kalis'h. the lamcntJ
editor Of Kidddrdddisch. we exchange word
with Reinhard El,ho. whom we knew II NV
York where he lived Tor some time. Elcho IA
now the critic of the Volks ZetiHg. and one Il
the few German writers who possscss s9mo ac-
curatc knowledge Of American affairs: Directly
behind him Is DIR. klee. chief editor OF the Post.
who is seid to- bn the most Industrious writer in
Berlin. IL is chatting with julius S hweitzor.
al lp so "a
Of the editorial stat Of the Ndtiondi /etuq.
The handsome mnn gt his SIDE. with INC dark
Rodcnherg whose sound Judgment anil eNtra-
ordinary talent have made the De,dScie R'ud-
schdu one Of the nhlcst reviews. published in
Europe. He Is conversing with MADAME blhss-
brcnner n celebrated teacher Of the dramatic
art. who. in her time. has impaired instruction
10 the greatest German addresses Of the day. n-
Guiding Marie Secbach and Char otto W9lter
The elderly man. whose long hair and board
give him .patriar,eei assncct. is DR., Her I
siSche ZetluJ. H. writes equally we'll tender
y5i, noems ana fh95i9Tni;s 'hrl BraG
vogel. the novelist, and author of Nnrcisse"
the only play in which Bandmann was ever com
Weiss. editor Of the Wage. and a lender of tho
Democratic party. Weiss ID probably the iore-'
most German Demorr r Az eXerS1s w
The comic papers are well represented by
the name of the weekly which be edits, tho
Wespe. quite. appropriate md by Hgdoll l;oew-
enstcin guiding spirit Of tho kiG'derddatsc'-
a paper which cas- ly maintains its supremacy.
and has lost little Of It's od-tme .humor. =.
Although there 9rc good many ladl's
Perhaps the most prominent Is veronica Non
Gcrstman. editor Of the Basdr. Frau Lima Nor.
ganstern has matronly facc ler articles On
| There are few hero who do not know the tnro
Of George Hilt fayorite actor Yao mas , writ
! lar novels. And there ar" not many Berlin