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Edler Herr von und zu Gustav Heinrich Gans Putlitz
1821–1890
Born into an old Brandenburg noble family, he built a varied career as a novelist, playwright, theater director, and public figure in 19th-century Germany. His life moved between country estate, court theater, and public service, giving his writing a strong sense of social observation.
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by Edler Herr von und zu Gustav Heinrich Gans Putlitz
About the author
Gustav Heinrich Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz was born on March 20, 1821, at Retzin near Perleberg in West Prignitz, and died there on September 5, 1890. He studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg, and early in his career worked with the provincial government in Magdeburg before turning more fully toward literature and theater.
He is remembered as a German author who also played an important role in cultural life as a theater administrator. Sources describe him as director of the Court Theatre in Schwerin and later general manager of the court theater in Karlsruhe. Alongside that work, he wrote fiction and drama, and German biographical references also note his activity as a landowner and politician.
Putlitz came from the long-established Gans zu Putlitz family, and that background shaped both his public life and the world around his writing. For listeners interested in 19th-century German literature, he is an appealing figure because his career joined literary work with direct experience of government, the stage, and aristocratic society.