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Henry F. Urban : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry F. Urban
Henry F. Urban (February 13, 1862 – May 13, 1924) was a German American journalist, author, and playwright. ==Biography== Reportedly a descendant of Johann Heinrich Voss,〔(Max Henrici, ed., ''Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika'' (Philadelphia, 1909), p. 393. )〕 Urban was raised in Berlin and emigrated to the United States in 1887. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1899 in New York. In the following years, he reported on life in America, often in a critical vein, as a freelance correspondent for the newspapers ''Berliner Tageblatt'' and ''Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger'' as well as for the weekly magazines ''Jugend'' and ''Simplicissimus''. His comedy ''Der Froschkönig'', loosely derived from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince", was staged at the Irving Place Theatre in 1918.〔("Germans in 'The Frog King'", ''New York Times'', 4 April 1918. )〕 An outspoken critic of the women's suffrage movement,〔(Claudia Bruns, "The Politics of Eros. The German ''Männerbund'' Between Anti-Feminism and Anti-Semitism in the Early Twentieth Century", in ''Masculinity, Senses, Spirit'', ed. Katherine M. Faull (Lewisburg, 2011), p. 165. )〕 he was primarily known in Germany for a satirical novel about naive German immigrants eager to strike it rich in "Dollarland" America and for collections of his humorous narratives,〔(Henrici, ''Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika'', p. 393. )〕 a number of which have been reissued since the 1980s.
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