A. de Herz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

A. de Herz

Romanian playwright (1887-1936)

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1887

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1936

Profession: poet, playwright, translator, songwriter

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About A. de Herz

  • Adolf Edmund George de Herz, commonly shortened to A.
  • de Herz, also rendered as Hertz and Her? (December 15, 1887 – March 9, 1936), was a Romanian playwright and literary journalist, also active as a poet, short story author, and stage actor.
  • He was the scion of an upper-class assimilated Jewish family, with its roots in Austria-Hungary.
  • His grandfather, Adolf Sr, was a controversial banker and venture capitalist, while his father, Edgar von Herz, was noted as a translator of Romanian literature.
  • Adolf had a privileged childhood and debuted as a poet while still in high school, producing the lyrics to a hit romance.
  • In his early work for the stage, Herz was a traditionalist inspired by Alexandru Davila and the Samanatorul school, but later veered toward neoclassical literature and aestheticism.
  • His "salon comedies", staged by the National Theater Bucharest, borrowed from various authors, including Roberto Bracco, Henri Lavedan, and Haralamb Lecca, peaking in popularity in 1913, with Paianjenul ("The Spider").
  • By the start of World War I, Herz was also a writer of revues. Controversy followed Herz during the early 1910s, when his writing raised suspicions of plagiarism.
  • A vaster controversy came with Romania's participation in the war, when Herz became noted as a supporter of the Central Powers.
  • He remained in German-occupied territory, putting out the daily paper Scena, which became a leading voice of Romanian "Germanophilia", but was also a pioneering contribution to cultural journalism.
  • He was arrested by returning loyalists during late 1918, and sent to Vacare?ti prison, but was finally acquitted in March 1919.
  • The controversy nevertheless survived, also leading to authorship disputes with a former friend, Ioan Alexandru Bratescu-Voine?ti, and provoking the enmity of writers Liviu Rebreanu and George Ranetti. The financially insecure Herz continued to publish plays and translations, embarking on a lasting collaboration with Constantin Tanase, and writing a revue for Josephine Baker.
  • Starring in his own plays, he also served for a while as editor of a cultural supplement, Adevarul Literar ?i Artistic, then briefly as head of Diminea?a daily and as interviewer for the Radio Company.
  • Eventually, he accepted appointment as chair of the National Theater Craiova in 1930.
  • Toppled by intrigues in 1935, he died the following year, after an illness of the lungs.

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