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Jacob Klein
There is only very little known about the biography of this Jacob Klein; in the picture he can be seen in an anonymous signed etching from about 1900. Several of the few basic information about his life:
In January 1887 he joins the administration of the Städelsche Kunstinstitut, is particularly dedicated to the Städel-Schule and its artists, 1890 the novel is published by the author, 1891 already discharge from the Städel-Administration, 1904 to at least 1907 he is member of the Physikalischer Verein, 1910 the auction of his drawings and 1911 of his collection of paintings takes place. According to documents of the Senkenbergische Gesellschaft he died in 1912. – There is still much to investigate and hold talks with the institutions of the city to bring Jacob Klein and his dedicated book to new life.
Because in his »social novel«, how he briefly denotes it in the subtitle, he tells of the virulent decades, in which civic commitment in Frankfurt is just emerging by establishing big foundations for the benefit of the citizens and the city community and by developing central social establishments. And without which we would not have found our present self-conception as free citizens in a democratic society.
Hinter den Culissen des Welttheaters
Socialer Roman
- Hardcover with a ribbon
- ca. 760 pages
- with contemporary images
978-3-86638-196-4
A randomly discovered novel – with this Professor Albert Gier came to the publisher some time ago: If this was not something for my publishing program, since the book is set in Frankfurt am Main during 1850 to 1870.
Jacob Klein had his novel with 55 chapters privately printed in 1890 in Frankfurt – except from the copy at the publisher there are only two more to find. – The novel tells the story of a young man, various affairs and social concerns lead him through this Frankfurt, he encounters Bismarck, communicates his social reform ideas for urban design to him. He again and again motivates at the time (recognizable?) public figures to responsible social acting, encourages civic establishments and thereby becomes embroiled in various intrigues, shady dealings and a murder. – A entertaining book, strained narrated with numerous domestic, corporate and urban stories. Literary a social novel, »how one might otherwise know it from Flaubert or Balzac«, how Professor Albert Gier says, who brought the wondrous find to the publisher.
