ruler of an imaginary peppercorn principality. Translator He is especially noted today for his translations of other writers’ poetic works, in particular of Albert Giraud’s Pierrot Lunaire which forms the Sprechstimme text of Arnold Schoenberg’s work of that name. Death Hartleben died in Salò, Italy. Works "Studententagebuch", poetry, 1886 "Die Serényi", stories, 1887 "Angele", comedy, 1891 "Hanna Jagert", comedy, 1893 "Die Geschichte vom abgerissenen Knopfe", stories, 1893 "Ein Ehrenwort", drama, 1894 "Meine Verse", poetry, 1895 "Vom gastfreien Pastor", stories, 1895 "Der römische Maler", novella, 1898 "Ein wahrhaft guter Mensch", comedy, 1899 "Rosenmontag”, tragedy, 1900 "Von reifen Früchten. Meiner Verse zweiter Teil", poetry, 1902 "Liebe kleine Mama", stories, 1904 "Diogenes", comedy, 1905 "Im grünen Baum zur Nachtigall", Studentenstück, 1905 "Das Ehefest", novella, 1906 Tagebuch 1906 Aphorismen, edited by van den Trelde 1920 Filmography The Serenyi, directed by Alfred Halm (1918, based on the novella Die Serényi) Rosenmontag, directed by Rudolf Meinert (1924, based on the play Rosenmontag) Love's Carnival, directed by Hans Steinhoff (1930, based on the play Rosenmontag) Sommerliebe, directed by Erich Engel (1942, based on the novella Die Serényi) Love's Carnival, directed by Willy Birgel (1955, based on the play Rosenmontag) External links Encyclopædia Britannica: Otto Erich Hartleben 1864 births 1905 deaths 19th-century German poets Writers from Hanover People from the Province of Hanover Leipzig University alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni German male poets German male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights German-language poets 19th-century German translators 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers