Paul Lindau

He spent five years in Paris to further his studies, acting meanwhile as foreign correspondent to German papers.

In 1870 he founded Das neue Blatt at Leipzig; from 1872 to 1881 he edited the Berlin weekly Die Gegenwart [de]; and in 1878 he founded the well-known monthly Nord und Süd, which he continued to edit until 1904.

[2] He began his dramatic career in 1868 with Marion, the first of a long series of plays in which he displayed a remarkable talent for stage effect and a command of witty and lively dialogue.

A novel-sequence entitled Berlin included Der Zug nach dem Westen (Stuttgart, 1886, 10th ed.

His earlier books on Molière (Leipzig, 1871) and Alfred de Musset (Berlin, 1877) were followed by some volumes of dramatic and literary criticism, Gesammelte Aufsätze (Berlin, 1875), Dramaturgische Blätter (Stuttgart, 2 vols., 1875; new series, Breslau, 1878, 2 vols.