The romantic writers spoke out in his many-sided work out for a political revival through art. Especially his fantastic works are an vital role to early Romanticism. Ludwig Joachim von Arnim was with other writers such as Joseph Gorres and Clemens Brentano, the core of the Heidelberg Romantics. He was together with Brentano “out Des Knaben Wunderhorn” pool, which includes over 600 songs. His other works contain “Hollin’s like life” (1802), “Ariel` s revelations “(1804) or” Cottage Life “(1826) …Ludwig Joachim von Arnim was on 26 January 1781 born son of a nobleman in the Prussian civil service in Berlin.
Ludwig Joachim von Arnim was raised as an orphan by his grandmother in Berlin. His father was too busy not only as a diplomat, but also as head of the Berlin Opera and with the management of his estate in the Uckermark and found no time for the education of his son. Arnim studied in Halle from 1798 to 1799 law and untreated sciences. From 1800 he devoted himself to the Georgia-Augusta University Göttingen mathematical studies. There he also met for the first time the early Romantics such as Ludwig Tieck. With the meeting of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Clemens Brentano, he became interested in it mainly for literature.
Between Clemens Brentano and Arnim developed a close lifelong friendship and later romantic work community. From 1801 to 1804 he undertook with his brother several learning trips to Europe – including through France, Switzerland and England. Before and during the trip activities, he collected folk songs handed down orally. Then, in 1804, he started with Clemens Brentano in Heidelberg, the three-volume pool of songs “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” (1806 – 1808) place together. 1805 the first volume was published. Arnim did not stop to assemble, but changed the lyrics to fit them or wrote them.
In Heidelberg, Arnim and Brentano met the poet Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff, Johann Joseph von Gorres, Justinus Kerner, Ludwig Tieck and Philipp Otto Runge with which they together formed the core of the Heidelberg Romantics. This circle turned to for political reasons to the Middle Ages to about this period in art endow a national unity, the aesthetic aspect of art not so much interested. With the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, went to Kassel via Arnim and Clemens Brentano, finished with the second and third part of the “Wunderhorn” with over 600 songs. Goethe took up the work with enthusiasm, which also was otherwise a fantastic success and the song Romantic poetry was sustained.
The suggestions, which assumed, beat down in ballads by Eduard Morike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm. Arnim came back to Berlin in 1809 and tried in vain for a job in the Prussian civil service to get. The relationship with Clemens Brentano became even quicker by the marriage with his sister Bettina Brentano von Arnim. Had learned to know the two already in 1802. It was with the death of Achim von Arnim himself active as a writer. From 1808 to 1812, Armin joined to the Berlin “Christian-German Desk Society ‘Jingoist Heinrich Kleist, Adam Muller, Adalbert Chamisso, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich baron da la Motte Fouqué and others who fought for the liberation of Prussia.
In 1813 Arnim took over as captain of a militia battalion participated in the War of Liberation. 1814, the couple went to the estate of Arnim Wieperdorf, but also spent some time in Berlin. Armin joined with his literary work, a political renewal that he was reached by means of art. It played the revival of traditional poetry an vital role. So in the small report pool “Winter Garden” (1809) surviving texts are edited and customized. A year later, the novel “poverty, wealth, guilt and repentance, the Countess Dolores” (1810), which with its contents of the supernatural represented a typical early romantic theme and influenced other works of this period.
By him in his collaboration with Brentano published “Journal of hermit” in this sign of renewal. In it, he has published numerous works by other romantics such as the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In book form, the journal carries the title “Comforter loneliness.” His fantastical narrative works such as the novella “Isabella of Egypt,” also incorporated into the surreal, and historical elements are critical to achieve a superior degree of popularity and are an vital role to the early Romantic era. His two fantastic novels “Countess Dolores’ marriage as a novel and the fragmentary” crown guard “(1817) as a historical work are time pieces, turning to the contemporary society and discuss their shortcomings.
With the latter work Arnim gaggle significantly advance the renewal of the historical novel in Germany. 1818 he published his novel “The fantastic progress on the disabled Ratonneau”. Achim von Arnim’s dramas are adaptations of traditional works such as the title of “The Same” and the drama “Halle and Jerusalem,” which dates back to Andreas Gryphius `tragedy ‘Cardenio and Celinde”. With the liberation struggles Achim von Arnim went back to his estate with Wiepersdorf in Berlin and devoted himself to its management.
Achim von Arnim died on 21 January 1831 in Wiepersdorf Jüterbog circle.
