Max Kurnik (1 November 1819 – 8 April 1881) was a German writer and theatre critic.
Life Born in Zaniemyśl, Kurnik was one of the leading left-liberal journalists in Breslau from around the middle of the 19th century. In 1851, he founded the first telegraph office in Silesia. He worked for the Schlesische Zeitung and later for the Breslauer Zeitunghttp://www.uni-leipzig.de/~musik/web/institut/agOst/docs/mittelost/hefte/1121_subel.pdf as a theatre and music critic. From 1872, he headed the Schlesische Presse, published by . He was close friend with Karl von Holtei.Till van Rahden, Juden und andere Breslauer, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000, ,
Alexander Moszkowski reported in his autobiography about Kurnik's apparently rather conservative taste in music:
Kurnik died in Wrocław at the age of 61.
Work Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Ausgewählte Dramen analytisch erläutert. 1845 Nathan der Weise. Goethe's Frauen. In zwei Lieferungen, Joh. Urban Kern, Breslau 1848 and 1849 Karl von Holtei. Ein Lebensbild, Berlin 1880 Theater-Erinnerungen, Janke Verlag, Berlin 1882 Ein Menschenalter Theater-Erinnerungen (1848–1880), Bertrams Print on Demand,
References
Further reading Hans Jessen: Max Kurnik. Ein Breslauer Journalist (1819–1881), Publication of the Breslauer Zeitung, Breslau 1927.
External links
Europeana: Max Kurnik