Ernst von Wolzogen

Ernst von Wolzogen (23 April 1855 – 30 August 1934) was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany.

Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasbourg and Leipzig.

In 1899, he returned in Berlin where he established a Kabarett, the Überbrettl, named as a play on Nietzsche's term Übermensch.

He married Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern in 1902, and wrote social satires for Überbrettl.

Works such as Fahnenflucht (1894), Das Wunderbare (1898), and Die arme Sünderin (1901) are examples of his more serious side as an author.