Friedrich Hebbel
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The German poet has made a name above all as a dramatist. With the tragedy of “Judith” was clarified by Christian Friedrich Hebbel that reputation. His dramas tell tragic life experiences through the clash of generations and historical eras and cultures. With his play “Mary Magdalene” opened the bourgeois Christian Friedrich Hebbel’s tragedy a new dimension. Also noteworthy are the diaries, letters and critical writings of Hebbel, which are characterized by a keen sense of observation and aphoristic presentation …
Christian Friedrich Hebbel was on 18 March 1813 in Wesselburen in Dithmarschen Norder, born the son of a bricklayer.
He grew up in poverty, higher education and studying him were denied. His education was suitable Hebbel self-taught on by constant reading, while serving as an errand boy and clerk of a church play Vogt worked. His first poems were published in regional newspapers. In 1835 he went to Hamburg to prepare for higher education. There he met Elise Lensing, his future mistress know, with whom he had two children. She and the writer Amalia Schoppe allowed him to stay in Hamburg.
In this period also saw the beginning of his diaries, in which he about art, philosophy and his own works reflected, they also provide information about his life. They are among the most fascinating observations in the literature of the 19th Century. A law school in Heidelberg, he broke from 1836th He went to Munich, because he reckons there are better opportunities for his writing. During this time he studied the fantastic tragedies of Aeschylus, William Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller. With an unsuccessful visit, he returned to Hamburg in 1839 again. There he worked as a reviewer and staff of the “telegraph for Germany,” a piece that was published by Charles Gotzkow.
In 1840 Hebbel finished work on the tragedy, “Judith,” which established his reputation as a dramatic writer. In his pamphlet, “My word on the drama” (1843) he published his views of art and drama. In the same year he embarked on the journey to Paris, which he by a grant from the Danish king approved travel funded. There he met Heinrich Heine and the radical democrats know Arnold Ruge. There were other trips to Rome and Naples. In 1848 he finished a poem edition, dedicated to Ludwig Uhland. In the lyrical works of his philosophical thoughts reflect, they embody an abstract thought without poetry in its pure form. They are associated with reflections, personal and allegorical interpretations.
As of 1845, Hebbel lived in Vienna, where he met his future wife, Christine Enghausen. They married 1846th The time of the Revolution of 1848 the writer was one of the well-known personalities already in Vienna. He championed as a keen journalist’s constitutional monarchy on a democratic basis. In this period also saw the appearance of the marriage drama “Herod and Marianne” (1850). In 1855 the drama was “Agnes Bernauer” was published, illustrating the conflict between the individual right to liberty and like as well as the comprehensive state power. Here and in the other dramas of Hebbel is clear that the author focuses on the notion of an enduring moral order, and uses less socio-historical processes of change as a means of representation.
He consistently argued for the autonomy of art. In the design of his dramatic works he followed the traditional organize. “Gyges and his Ring” was 1856th For the “Nibelungen” trilogy (1862) Hebbel was honored in 1863 with the Schiller Prize. The national fabric and the author were above all taken by the Nazis during the Third Reich for themselves. This reception hurt the author. But criticism came from fellow side, like Gottfried Keller and other contemporaries. “Verkünstelte tough and motivation” and “historical arbitrariness” of the accusations is Hebbel’s fabric design. In contrast, the uniqueness of the “Nibelungen” – design that is based on the mesh size of archaic and individual psychological realism staining.
In general, the mutual linkage and interpenetration of the individual and the universal is a literary trend of basic Christian Friedrich Hebbel. The literary genre of tragedy missed the playwright with “Maria Magdalena” (1844) and the conflict in the petit bourgeois world a new dimension. His other works contain “Genoveva” (1843), “The Diamond” (1847), “A Tragedy in Sicily” (1851), “Tales and novels” (1855), “Mother and Child” (1859) or “Demetrius” (1864).
Christian Friedrich Hebbel died on 13 December 1863 in Vienna.
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