Paul Leppin was born in Prague on November 27, 1878. Beginning with the appearance of his first novel, The Doors of Life, in 1901, his poetry, prose, and criticism appeared regularly in Prague and Germany over the next thirty years. Leppin was also one of the few German writers to have close contacts with the Czech literary community, and his contribution to the city's literature and culture was recognized both in 1934, when he was awarded chiller Memorial Prize, and in 1938, when he received the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture Award. He died in Prague of syphilis on April 10, 1945.
"For Leppin Prague, and particularly its Jewish quarter, is the
quintessential dead city ... [His] fairy tales are unique, however,
in their combination of lyricism with a modernist disjointedness,
concern with metatexts, and lack of completion pointing toward
surrealism." --SEEJ
"Leppin (1878-1945), a civil servant revulsed by bourgeois life who
reactively plunged into decadence, reads like the missing link
between Baudelaire and the scalding satirical artist George Grosz."
--Roy Olson, Booklist
"Leppin was the truly chosen bard of the painfully disappearing old
Prague ... a poet of eternal disillusionment, at once a servant of
the Devil and an adorer of the Madonna." --Max Brod
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