{{Short description|German playwright and poet}} {{Infobox person | name = Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda | image = Ludwig_Fulda.jpg | birth_date = July 7, 1862 | birth_place = Free City of Frankfurt | death_date = March 7, 1939 | death_place = Berlin, Germany }}
'''Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda''' (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939) was a German playwright and poet, with a strong social commitment. He lived with Moritz Moszkowski's first wife Henriette, née Chaminade, younger sister of pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade.<ref name="Triarhou">Lazaros C. Triarhou, [http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=337953&Ausgabe=257009&ProduktNr=223840 Moritz Moszkowski],'' Vol. 67 No. 6 (2012), European Neurology. Accessdate: 10 June 2012''</ref>
==Biography== He was born in the Free City of Frankfurt. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and the first president of the PEN of Germany (1925–1932). He visited the United States in 1906 on the invitation of the Germanistic Society.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mencken|first=Henry L.|url=http://www.mencken.org/text/txt002/me1908biographies.htm|title=Biographies|publisher=Mencken.org|accessdate=10 June 2012}}</ref>
A Jew, he was removed from his work by the Nazis in 1933. Fulda committed suicide in Berlin in 1939 when he was denied entry into the United States.<ref name="Lester">{{cite book|last=Lester|first=David|title=Suicide and the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1nkj-xSzYgC&dq=%22ludwig+fulda%22+suicide&pg=PA73|year=2005|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-59454-427-9|page=73}}</ref>
==Works== Fulda's creations used the relationships of his characters to develop the social and political issues of his time. Fulda's works include ''Das verlorene Paradies'' (1892; translated as ''The Lost Paradise'', 1897),<ref>{{cite book |last=Fulda |first=Ludwig |author-link= |date=1892 |title= Das verlorene Paradies|url=https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/fulda/paradies/titlepage.html |location= Stuttgart|publisher=J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung |page= |isbn=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Fulda|first= Ludwig|author-link= |translator-last1=De Mille |translator-first1=Henry C. |date=1897 |title= The Lost Paradise|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lAMTAAAAYAAJ |location=New York and London |publisher= Samuel French|page= |isbn=}}</ref> ''Der Talisman'' (1892), ''Jugendfreunde'' (1897) and ''Maskerade'' (1904). His novel ''Der Seeräuber'' was later freely adapted into the play ''The Pirate'' by S. N. Behrman. Fulda's 1901 play, ''Die Zwillingsschwester'' was adapted into the screenplay by Behrman and Salka Viertel of the American motion picture ''Two-Faced Woman'' (1941) starring Greta Garbo.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://snbehrman.com/library/nytimes/43.2.7.htm |title = A Tribute to Fulda |accessdate = 2010-04-28 |author = S. N. Behrman |authorlink = S. N. Behrman |date = 1943-02-07 |work = The New York Times }}</ref> Inspired by the story of Aladdin, he wrote ''Aladdin und die Wunderlampe''. He also made numerous translations.
''Jugendfreunde'' was adapted in the United States into the 1912 play ''Our Wives'' by Helen Craft/Kraft and Frank Mandel.<ref name=op/><ref>https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1912-10-20/ed-1/?sp=14&st=text&r=0.723,0.905,0.382,0.567,0</ref> That play was adapted into the musical comedy ''The Only Girl'' by Victor Herbert.<ref name=op>operetta-research-center.org/victor-herberts-girl-returns-new-york/</ref>
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== External links == * {{Gutenberg author |id=5415| name=Ludwig Fulda}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ludwig Fulda}} * {{Librivox author |id=5827}} * {{IBDB name|7434}} * {{IMDb name|0298080}}
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