Emanuel Geibel

Franz Emanuel Geibel August ( born October 17, 1815 in Lübeck, † April 6, 1884 ) was a German lyric poet. Pseudonym L. Horst.

• 5.1 Werkausgaben (selection)
• 5.2 secondary literature

Life

Franz Emanuel Geibel was born the seventh of eight children in the fish Straße 25 in Lübeck. The son of the Reformed pastor John Geibel and the merchant's daughter Elisabeth Louise Ganslandt (1778-1841), sister of Röttgermann Ganslandt, visited the Katharineum Lübeck until he initially studied theology in Bonn and then exclusively Classical Philology from 1835. Here he joined the fraternity in 1834 Ruländer Bonn. In Bonn he met Karl Marx and Karl know green. With Moriz Carriere, inter alia, they formed a poet wreath ' in Bonn and Berlin.

After that he went to Berlin, where during his studies with Chamisso, Bettina von Arnim and Eichendorff he graduated in 1836 friendship. Before he left for Greece, submitted an application to obtain a PhD at the University of Jena Geibel. He was assisted by Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald. Geibel was awarded the doctorate in absentia, without a written dissertation, which had nachzuliefern he promised to have submitted. In 1838 he received through his relationships together with Ernst Curtius a job as a tutor to the Russian ambassador in Athens; the Greek experience was decisive for his classical poetry. After his return he stayed in 1841 and 1842 some time at Castle Mountain Ash at Zierenberg and published the first poems; especially the patriotic - friendly prussia found the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV very well received. 1842 Geibel received from him one - the previous scanty and erratic Einkunftsverhältnisse repairable - lifetime pension of 300 thalers. This enabled him to abandon the unpopular tutor activity and only to devote more of his poetic inclination and extensive travels. In the forestry house Waldhusen in the district of Lübeck Kücknitz Geibel spent several times its summer and created there in 1847, the poem from the forest. He was an active member of the Young -Lübeck -called renewal movement.

In 1851 he fell in love with the 17-year- old Amanda ( "Ada" ) Trummer ( born August 15, 1834 in Lübeck), whom he married in 1852. The wedding took place in the Lübeck garden restaurant salmon weir, whose " quiet garden with shady elms course" he sang in a poem. In 1852 he received an honorary professorship of German literature and poetics of his admirers, Maximilian II Geibel moved to Munich and taught there until 1868., 1853 the daughter of Ada Marie Caroline ( 1853-1906 ) was born, which later became the first wife of Emil Ferdinand Fehling. Two years later his wife Amanda died here on November 21, 1855 and was buried in the Old South Cemetery. Geibel also promoted the come via Lübeck to Munich Wilhelm Jensen. After the death of Maximilian II in 1864 Geibel was attacked because of his friendly disposition prussia; he lost his in 1868 - facing the Bavarian royal house - pension for life. Geibel left the Munich circle of poets The crocodiles and the royal Round Table, in which he had been involved since 1852.

When the Prussian King Wilhelm on September 12, 1868 Lübeck visited, Geibel welcomed the guest with that poem, through which he had fallen out of favor with King Ludwig II and thus was the occasion for the return of the poet in his native city.

In the years 1873-1875 he spent the summer in Schwartau, where he wandered in the vicinity. Emanuel Geibel died on 6 April 1884 in Lübeck, where he was worshiped as a city poet and an honorary citizen. His grave site is located on the Burgtorfriedhof. Most modern Lübeck, he is known by his poem to Lübeck on the bridges. It's about the god Mercury, who is a statue on the bridge dolls.

Artistic creation

Geibel was a late Romantic, whose works in their perfection of form followed a classical beauty cult. They were still influenced by the style of romance, when it was long past. In the second half of the 19th century, he was one of the most famous German poet. His patriotic poems were in sharp contrast to the works of young Germans and the naturalists, of which he was violently attacked. His first poem he published in German Musenalmanach for the year 1834 by A. von Chamisso and Gustav Schwab under a pseudonym.

His most famous work is the poem Wanderlied, also known as May has arrived, he began to write in 1841 on the way to Castle Mountain Ash. In the setting of Justus Wilhelm Lyra from Osnabrück is May has arrived on the eve of May 1st, Lübeck and other places to this day sung publicly in Osnabrück.

Parts of his poems have also been used in National Socialism. The keyword " On the German character like the world recover " his poem German occupation of 1861 was taken, although with the " German character ", in contrast to the later interpretation of the meaning of " way " or of " German culture / race" in line with Nazi ideology, the existence of Germany as a unit, as a state ( as a being, while maintaining the cultural diversity ) is to be understood; the poem is a call Geibels to the individual German states to unite behind a new emperor. After exclusion of Austria from the defined area as Germany (small German solution) after 1866 and the Franco-German war Geibel saw this call in 1871 realized. Geibel also tried his hand as a playwright, as the Opera Libretto Loreley, but without much success. More important are his translations of French, Spanish, Greek and Latin poetry.

Theodor Fontane sat Geibel a literary monument in debossed " Geibelei " under which he knew how beautiful but formal stereotypical poetry that could be filled with any content. Theodor Storm echauffierte still at the banquet that was held as part of the award of an honorary citizen of the town of Husum for him, the fact that his work throughout his life was subordinated to the Geibel.

Thomas Mann immortalized Geibel in the Buddenbrooks in the figure of Jean -Jacques Hoffstede, the " poet of the city ," which at the big family party at the house of Buddenbrooks at the beginning of the book a few lines, which he had specially brought for the occasion to paper, for best out there. However, Wilhelm Busch's picture story Baldwin baa-lamb, which prevented poet is considered derisive comment about Emanuel Geibel and the circles in which he moved.

Honors

• On December 9, 1868 Geibel honorary citizen of the city of Lübeck.
• On October 18, 1889 was erected a monument on the Geibel space, created by Hermann Volz, in Lübeck.
• Founded in 1920, The Third School for Girls Lübeck was renamed in 1934 in Emanuel Geibel Middle School; since 1960 it is called Emanuel Geibel -Realschule.
• 1894 in Vienna Rudolf -Fuenfhaus ( 15th district ) was named the Geibelgasse after him.
• In Kiel - Schreventeich 1900 both the Geibel Avenue and the Geibel square were named after him.
• Emanuel Geibel - roads or streets Geibel there are among others in Bremen- Findorff, Bremerhaven -Lehe Büdelsdorf Dinslaken, Diedelsheim, Erfurt, Flensburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Norderstedt, Reutlingen, Speyer and Wiesbaden.

Works

Poetry

• Poems. Alexander Dunker, Berlin 1840 digitized 13th edition 1848 ( 100th edition, JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1884)
• Time voices. Poems. Friedr. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1841 Digitalisat 3 verm new edition 1846
• A call from the Travelodge. Poem. Friedr. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1845 digitized
• Twelve Sonnets for Schleswig- Holstein. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1846
• Juniuslieder. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1848 digitized version of the first edition (26th ed 1884) 7 presumably digitized edition 1858
• Edit: poems by Hermann Lingg. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1854
• New poems. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1856 digitized version of the first edition ( 19th ed 1884) digitized 5th edition 1858
• The Loreley. C. Rumpler, Hannover 1861 digitized (2nd edition 1861)
• Edited: A Munich poet book. A. Kröner, Stuttgart 1862 digitized
• Poems and commemorative sheets. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1868 ( 7.Aufl. , 1878) digitized 4th Edition
• Late autumn leaves. Latest poems. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1877 digitized version of the first edition (5th edition 1884)

Translations

• Emanuel Geibel, Paul Heyse: Spanish Songbook. Wilhelm Hertz 1852 digitized ( 2 In. 1852)
• Emanuel Geibel, Adolf Friedrich von Schack: Romanzero the Spaniards and Portuguese. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1860 digitized
• Classisches Songbook. Greeks and Romans in German replica. 2nd Edition Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1876 digitized
• Emanuel Geibel, Heinrich Leuthold: Five books of French poetry from the Age of Revolution to the present day, in translations. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1862 digitized

Dramas and comedies

• King Roderick. A tragedy in five acts. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1844 digitized
• King Sigurd Brautfahrt. A Nordic myth. Wilhelm Better, Berlin 1846 digitized ( 4th ed crab, Stuttgart 1877)
• Champion Andrea. Comedy in two acts. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1855 digitized
• Brunhild, a tragedy. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart and Augsburg 1857 digitized version of the first edition ( 4th edition 1884)
• Sophonisbe. Tragedy in five acts. JG Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1856 ( 19th ed 1884) digitized 2nd edition 1870
• Real gold is clear as fire. A proverb. A. Hildebrand 's Verlag, Schwerin 1882 digitized 3rd edition 1882

Letters

• Albert Duncker: Emanuel Geibel 's letters to Karl Freiherr von der Malsburg and members of his family. Paetel, Berlin 1885
• F. E. Fehling: Emanuel Geibel Youth letters. Bonn - Berlin Greece. Karl Curtius, Berlin 1909 digitized
• Emanuel Geibel about his Juniuslieder. Unpublished letters from the Cotta archive. In: The Griffin. Cotta'sche monthly. Volume 1, Issue 7, 1915.
• Erich Petzet (ed.): The correspondence of Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse. JF Lehmann Verlag, Munich 1922 digitized
• Gustav Struck ( eds.): Exchange of letters Emanuel Geibel and Karl Goedecke. City Library Lübeck, Lübeck 1939 ( Publications of the libraries of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, New Series Vol I)
• Wilhelm Schoof: From Geibels correspondence with Freiligrath encounter with Moerike. from unpublished letters. Lübeck 1956
• Heinrich Schneider: The friendly encounter Heinrich Leuthold and Emanuel Geibel in the Munich circle of poets. A literary -historical and psychological report with previously unpublished letters and documents.. Lübeck: Schmidt- Römhild 1961 (Publications of the city library Lübeck, New Series, 4) digitized
• Hans Reiss, Herbert Wegener ( Ed.): Emanuel Geibel. Letters to Henriette Nölting 1838-1855. Max Schmidt- Römhild, Lübeck, 1963 ( Publications of the city library Lübeck. 's New Series Volume 6)
• Rainer Hillenbrand: Franz Kugler's letters to Emanuel Geibel. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u a ] In 2001, ISBN 3-631-37553-0
• Rainer Hillenbrand: Heyseana from Heidelberg and Nuremberg. Seven letters of Paul Heyse and one each of Geibel and Heyse Lenbachplatz to. In: Roland Berbig (ed.): Paul Heyse: a writer between Germany and Italy. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u a ] 2001, pp. 255-265