Levin Schücking

Levin Schücking (Christoph Bernhard Matthias Schücking Levin, born September 6, 1814 Meppen, † August 31 1883 in Pyrmont ) was a German writer and journalist.

Life

Levin Schücking was the eldest son of Arenberg bailiff, judge and religion historian Paul Modestus Schücking and born of his wife, the poet Catherine Sibylla Schücking bush. He spent his childhood and youth until 1829 in the stables of the baroque hunting lodge Clemens in Sögel / Emsland. After a move to Munster in 1829, he attended the local grammar school Paulinum; after a further move to Osnabrück in 1831 the local high school Carolinum, where he graduated from high school in 1833 took off.

Schücking studied in Munich, Heidelberg and Göttingen law and came to law degree in 1837 in Münster, where he frequented the circle of the rear writer Society with Elise Rüdiger, Annette von Droste- Hulshoff, Luise von Bornstedt, Wilhelm Junkmann and Christoph Bernhard Schlüter. He was soon a legal career and turned to literature to. To encourage him in this set Annette von Droste Hulshoff him to their own contributions available, eg he " The picturesque and romantic Westphalia " recycled at his employees at work.

He worked from 1838 to Karl Gutzkow Telegraph magazine for Germany and was supported decisively by Gutzkow. He also published many articles in Johann Friedrich Cotta morning paper for educated readers and other belletristic - critical leaves.

In 1841, he was through the mediation of his mother's friend Annette von Droste- librarian whose brother, Baron Joseph von Laßberg at Castle Meersburg on Lake Constance. 1842/43 he got a job as a royal tutor to the Prince Wrede in Mondsee near Salzburg, before he was appointed in the autumn of 1843 as editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, who was then the most influential newspaper in Germany, to Augsburg.

On October 7, 1843, he married the writer Louise von Gall, with whom he had long been engaged only on the basis of an intensive exchange of letters. He retired in 1845 from Augsburg to Cologne, where he directed the feature section of the Cologne Gazette, traveled in 1846 on behalf of the newspaper to Paris in 1847 and for a long time to Rome. In Paris, he had several meetings with Heinrich Heine. Until 1852 he was features editor of the Cologne newspaper.

In late 1852 he retired to his estate in the Westphalian sassenberg. Died in 1855 his wife here. Schücking still worked for numerous magazines and newspapers, wrote novels, short stories, travel books, small feature articles and reviews, traveled 1862 World Exhibition in London in 1864 again to Italy, 1867 World Exhibition in Paris and has made repeated for a long time in Münster.

Schücking died at the age of 68 from pancreatic cancer at the sanatorium of his son, the Secret Health Council Christoph Bernhard Adrian Schücking in Bad Pyrmont. His grave monument is located at the cemetery on the Lortzingstraße in Bad Pyrmont.

At Black Bear in Göttingen is located since 1933 in Göttingen plaque for him.

He and his wife had five children Lothar Carl Levin Schücking (* December 19, 1844, † 25 April 1901 his godmother is Annette von Droste Hulshoff ), Adrian Christopher Bernard Schücking ( born July 13, 1852 † June 2, 1914 ), Gerhardine Friederike Juliane C. Schücking ( born January 10, 1846 † October 22, 1906 ), theophany Elfriede Sabine C. Schücking ( born April 19, 1850 † May 23, 1903 ) and Adolfine Schücking (* September 19, 1854; † December 9, 1854 ).

Theophany ( Call Name: Theo ) Schücking was the first partner of the Swiss writer Meta von Salis.

From the marriage Lothar Carl Levin Schücking with Luise Wilhelmine Amalie born Beitzke (1849-1920), the sons Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873-1943) Schücking Walther (1875-1935) and Ludwig Schücking Levin went, (1878-1964) produced.

Literary creation

Schücking has left a varied and extensive body of work, which includes almost all literary genres, but it will vary as to the meaning. Especially as narrator and critic, he played a major role in the literature for several decades. The scenic background of many of his works are narrative Westphalia and the Rhineland, giving him " Westphalian Walter Scott ," the name of an enlisted. His irrepressible spinning tales, his tendency to romantic entanglements and exciting, adventurous stories made ​​him the reading public 1850-1880 extraordinarily popular. He used in his narrative works but also weave in stimulating and witty conversations and discuss ideological positions and Current Affairs controversial. In addition to time novels, he has numerous historical novels and short stories, but also written travel literature, biographical works, plays and poems.

As a journalist, he has published a vast number of literary criticism, feuilletonistischer papers and essays that are largely missing and bibliographic not yet developed.

Schücking journalistic profession and its prominent position as an author led him along with many prominent contemporaries of the political and cultural life. Is interesting in this context his memoirs that break with the 1849 and remained unfinished. The relations with his patron Karl Gutzkow, his friend Ferdinand Freiligrath and his long-time companion Annette von Droste- Hulshoff have been of great importance for Schücking development. With the three authors, he has also worked as with his wife Louise von Gall. So he published together with Freiligrath 1841 The picturesque and romantic Westphalen and he co-wrote with Annette von Droste- Hulshoff the novella The family shield, which appeared in 1841 in the morning paper for educated readers. Later he gave Droste- Hülshoff works out, he wrote a first biography of her and he sat down heavily for her literary work a. Unflattering is the image that he in the novel The Ritterbürtigen (1846 ) in the figure of the scheming Stiftsdame Allgunde Countess of Quernheim of their records. This very negative, conscious caricature led to a break with the girlfriend.

Schücking admired Walter Scott and was influenced by him as well as from the prose of Young Germany.

Works

• Clemence Isaure or The Flower Games, 1839
• Together with Ferdinand Freiligrath The picturesque and romantic Westphalen. Leipzig: Volckmar, 1841
• A castle by the sea, 2 vols, Stuttgart: Cotta 1843
• Poems, Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta 1846
• Short Stories, 2 vols Pest and Leipzig: Heckenast 1846 ( Content: The General Counsel of Zweibrücken, Only no love, La Fleur, The Banquet on chick Sandcastle, A Geusenabenteuer, The Family Sign, wine and love trading, grandchildren ).
• The Ritterbürtigen, 3 vols, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1846
• A dark deed, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1846
• A trip Romans, Koblenz: Hölscher 1849
• Henry of Gagern. A photograph, Cologne Du Mont - Schaubergwerk 1849
• Faustina. Drama in four acts, Cologne 1852 ( as manuscript gedr )
• A state secret, 3 vols, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1854
• (Ed.) world and time. From the estate of a Russian diplomat, Berlin: Schindler 1855
• A railway journey by Westphalen, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1855
• The hero of the future, Prague: Herzabek 1855
• Von Minden to Cologne, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1856
• Paul Bronckhorst or the New Men, 3 vols, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1858
• Collected stories and novellas, 6 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1859-1866
• Images from Westphalen, Elberfeld: Frederick 1860
• Annette von Droste, a picture of life, Hannover: Rümpler 1861
• The Sutler of Cologne, 3 vols, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1861
• One soldier's Adventures, 2 vols, Vienna and Leipzig: Günther 1861
• The jury and their judge, 3 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1861
• Devoured way, 3 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1867
• Castle Dornegge or The way to happiness, 4 vols, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1868
• The painter from the Louvre Museum, 4 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1869
• Jean -Jacques Rousseau. Two episodes from his life, Leipzig: Günther 1870
• Luther in Rome, 3 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1870
• German fights, 2 vols, Leipzig: Günther 1871
• The Saints and the Knights, 4 vols, Hanover: Rümpler 1873
• Something on your conscience, Stuttgart: Spemann 1882
• Memoirs, 2 vols, Wroclaw. Schottlaender 1886 - new edition of the memoirs ed. by Walter Gödden and Jochen Grywatsch in Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2009. (Publications of the literature Commission for Westphalia, vol 38, number texts Vol 14). ISBN 978-3-89528-760-2

Letters

• Letters from Levin Schücking and Louise von Gall. Edited by Reinhold Conrad Muschler. With e biographer. Introd by Levin Ludwig Schücking. Leipzig: Grunow 1928.
• Letters by Annette von Droste- Hulshoff and Levin Schücking. Edited by Reinhold Conrad Muschler. 3 strongly presumably ed Leipzig: Grunow 1928.
• The correspondence between Charles Gutzkow and Levin Schücking 1838-1876. Eds, inlaid. u commented Wolfgang von Rasch. Bielefeld: 1998 ISBN 3-89528-156-5 Aisthesis.

Translations

• Le Sage: The Limping Devil, Hildburghausen 1866
• Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Hildburghausen in 1870;