“ His pen was still active after his retirement, and in the five years preceding his death, which took place at Vienna on the 1st of August 1884, he wrote the romances and novels Die Böhminger (1880) , Louison (1881) , Der Schatten-Wilhelm (1883) , and published an interesting volume of reminiscences, Erinnerungen, 1841–1881 (1882) . Laube’s dramas are not remarkable for originality or for poetical beauty; their real and great merit lies in their stage-craft. ”

“ These writings, in which, after the fashion of Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne, he severely criticized the political régime in Germany, together with the part he played in the literary movement known as Das junge Deutschland, led to his being subjected to police surveillance and his works confiscated. ”

“ In 1848 Laube was elected to the national assembly at Frankfort-on-Main for the district of Elbogen, but resigned in the spring of 1849, when he was appointed artistic director of the Hofburg theatre in Vienna. ”