Meyrink, Gustav eigentlich G. Meyer#
b. Vienna, Jan. 19, 1868, d. Starnberg (Germany), Dec. 4, 1932, narrative writer, dramatist, translator. 1889-1902 banker in Prague, 1902 unjustly suspected of fraud, 1905 moved to Munich and worked as a free-lance writer; from 1911 in Starnberg. M., the "provocative figure of Prague", turned to occult and anti-bourgeois themes, and was seen as a classic writer of fantastic literature with his well-known novels "Der Golem" (1915), "Das gruene Gesicht" (1917), "Walpurgisnacht" (1917) and "Der weisse Dominikaner" (1921). His work contains mystical, cabalistic and Indian spiritual elements. He converted to Mahajana-Buddhism in 1927.
Further works#
Tales: Der heisse Soldat und andere Geschichten, 1903; Wachsfigurenkabinett, 1907; Des deutschen Spiessers Wunderhorn, 3 vols., 1913.Literature#
M. Qasim, G. M. Eine monographische Untersuchung, 1981; R. Reiter, Das daemonische Diesseits, 1997; NDB.