LAUBE, lou'bZ, Heinrich, German novel ist and dramatist: b. Sprottau, Silesia, 18 Sept. 1806; d. Vienna, 1 Aug. 1884. He studied theology at Halle and Breslau, and settled in Leipzig in 1832. He engaged in literary work and an active participation in the movement known as °Dasjunge Deutschland.* His political essays and a series of novels which scored the existing government got him into difficulties, and he was subjected to police sur veillance, while his writings were confiscated. He was expelled from Saxony in 1834 and served a nine months' prison sentence in Ber lin. Shortly after his marriage he was again imprisoned for a year because of his political sympathies, and in 1839 he returned to Leip zig and entered upon his career as a dramatist and theatre director. He served in the Frank fort National Assembly in 1848-49, resigning in order to accept an appointment as artistic director in the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna. He was director of the Leipzig Stadthentre in 1869-70, and in 1872 returned to Vienna as head of the new Stadtheatre there, a position he held until his retirement in 1880. He was a master of stage-craft and his work in this field won him higher rank than either his dramas or novels. His dramas are notable
particularly for their adaptability for stage reproduction. He wrote several novels and his memoirs after his retirement from public life. Author of the political essays 'Das neue Jahr handed' (1833) ; 'Politische Briefe> (1833); a three-volume novel, (Das junge Europa' (1833-37); the dramas (1845); and Gellert' (1847) •, Karls schiiler) (1847); Essex) (1856) • rose (1859) the novels 'Der deutsche Krieg> 49 vols., 1868-66); (Die Bohminger) (1880); (1:•:1); Schalten-Wilhelm> (1883) ; a record of his theatrical work in 'Das Burgtheater> (1868) ; 'Das norddeutsche Theatre' (1872) ; 'Das weiner Stadtheater> (1875); and (Erinnerungen, 1841, 1:•:P (1882). His non-dramatic works were published (16 vols., 1875-82) • his dramatic works (13 vols., 1845-75; pop. ed., 10 vols., 1880-92). Consult Proelss, J., junge Deutschland) (1892); Bulthaupt, H., des Schauspiels' (Vol. III, 6th ed., 1901).