Otto Julius Bierbaum (June 28 1865, Grünberg/Zielona Góra, Lower Silesia - February 1 1910, Kötzschenbroda, near Dresden) was a German writer.

After studying in Leipzig Bierbaum became journalist and editor for the journals Die freie Bühne, Pan and Die Insel. His literary work was very variable. As a poet he used forms like the Minnesang or the folksong and the anacreontics' style.

In 1897 Bierbaum published his novel Stilpe which animated Ernst von Wolzogen to establish the cabaret Überbrettl in Berlin. His novel Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer was an adaption of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio.

Works

• Die Schlangendame (1896)
• Das schöne Mädchen von Pao (1899)
• Eine empfindsame Reise im Automobil (1903)
• Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer (1905)
• Yankeedoodlefahrt (1909)
• Prinz Kuckuck - Leben, Taten, Meinungen und Höllenfahrt eines Wollüstlings

1865 births | 1910 deaths | German poets | German writers

Otto Julius Bierbaum | オットー・ユーリウス・ビーアバウム