Hungarian-born Austrian poet, playwright, librettist, critic, and essayist.

Rudolf Lothar was the author of novels, comedies, plays, and libretti (for Eugen d’Albert, Clemens von Frackenstein, and Paul Graener). Many of his plays and opera libretti were adapted for film.

He provided the librettos for Eugen d’Albert’s opera Tiefland (1903), Tragaldabas (1907), Izeyl (1909), Die verschenkte Frau (1912), and Liebesketten (1912).

Correspondence

Two letters from Lothar to Schenker survive from 1898 (OJ 12/44, [1] and [2], with the letterhead Die Wage, eine Wiener Wochenschrift) and an undated note. Schenker’s diary records his writing a letter to Lothar on November 21, 1932 “concerning the slip of “Schreker” for “Schenker,” and thanks for the reminiscence,” referring to an article of Lothar’s, "Ein Wiener Stammtisch. Lustige Erinnerungen ans Café Imperial," Neues Wiener Journal, No. 14009, November 20, 1932, 40th year, p. 10. The letter is not known to survive.

Lothar also features briefly in correspondence in 1906 between Schenker and Eugen d’Albert, d’Albert asking Schenker to contact Lothar urgently, presumably regarding the libretto for d’Albert’s comic opera Tragaldabas (1907) (OJ 9/6, [43] and [46].

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