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Victor Auburtin (5 September 1870 – 28 June 1928) was a German journalist and writer. His style was idiosyncratic and at times pithy:〔 he was a master of the German form of the Feuilleton genre.〔 ==Life== Auburtin was born into a family that had emigrated from Alsace (at the time, part of France) a couple of generations earlier: his grandfather, Charles Louis Benoit Auburtin (1808–1885), had worked as a chef for the King of Prussia. Aubertin attended the French School in Berlin,〔The school now possesses the carved relief (image) of Auburtin which was removed from his grave in 1978 after it had fallen into disrepair. The relief was rescued on the initiative of the writer-journalist Heinz Knobloch, who was a great admirer of Auburtin.〕 then moving on (with an extended travel break) to study acting, German studies, Arts and Literature at Berlin, Bonn and Tübingen. After that he began to write as an arts and theatre critic for the "Berliner Börsenzeitung" (''literally "Berlin Stock exchange newspaper)"'', for which his father, Charles Boguslav Auburtin (1837–1915) already worked as a journalist. Victor Auburtin also wrote during this time for the magazine "Jugend" (''Youth'') and for the satirical weekly, Simplicissimus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Hamburg )〕 Between 1911 and 1914 he worked for the Berliner Tageblatt (newspaper), based in Paris as the paper's foreign correspondent. However, in August 1914 war broke out, and he was identified as a prominent enemy alien. He was arrested and imprisoned at Dijon, in the east of France. He was then moved to a prison in Morsiglia on the island of Corsica. Here he remained till 1917, by when he was seriously ill, and the French released him. He was repatriated to Germany via Switzerland. His life in French internment was later recalled in a volume Auburtin produced in German and French entitled "Was ich in Frankreich erlebte"〔Was ich in Frankreich erlebte, Berlin, Mosse 1918〕 (''"My experiences in France" / "Carnet d' un boche en France 1914–1917"''). After 1917 he worked as a travel writer and freelance correspondence. Places on which he wrote included Madrid and, notably towards the end of his career, Rome. A story told – apparently by another cat lover – of his time in Rome concerns his unexpected disappearance one day. He was found in a state of mental confusion (''in geistig verwirrt'') in Trajan's Forum, surrounded by some of the ferral cats who abound in the city. By this stage, the source asserts, he loved cats more than he loved people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Auburtin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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