Adolf Glassbrenner

Adolf Glaßbrenner ( born March 27, 1810 in Berlin as Georg Adolph Theodor glass burner, † September 25, 1876 ) was a German humorist and satirist, " inventor of the perverse - mischievous type, the secretary of the Biedermeier Berlin, even the father of the Berlin wit ". He created his most famous work from 1832 to 1850 with the series Berlin as it is and - drinking under the pseudonym " magnifying glass ". A total of 32 books published in Berlin and Leipzig, some with cartoons of Theodor Hosemann. Similar content were the books of life and bustle of the fine world of 1834 and Berliner Volksbank life from 1848 to 1851.

Life and work

Background and education

Adolf Glaßbrenner was born in Leipziger Strasse 31 in the "House of the flying horse ". His parents were of the 40 -year-old tailor, Georg Peter Glass burners and the 29 -year-old Christiane Louise Juliane, born Hoopoes. They left their son on April 18, baptized in the name Georg Adolph Theodor in the new church on the Gendarmenmarkt. Adolf had three brothers: Julius, Herman and Theodore.

Glaßbrenner the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium visited and met Karl Gutzkow. The school friend he remained after the demolition of the high school life friends. Since his father in 1824 to attend school could not continue to finance, Adolf Glaßbrenner left the school and started an apprenticeship in the silk act Gabain in Broad Street.

Policy in the journal

In the summer of 1827 appeared Adolf Glaßbrenners first " publication" - for the Berlin Courier, he wrote from that date mystery to the heading "Ladies Sphynx ". It was followed by some contract work, which mainly obituaries in poem form. In 1829 he seized the opportunity to participate in the newly founded Berlin Eulenspiegel, who positioned himself against Prussia. Glaßbrenner published under the pseudonym Adolf magnifying glass critical texts. Despite two-time renaming the magazine was banned and so he decided to become a journalist in 1830 itself and freelance writer.

On 3 October 1831 he handed therefore beseech for a permission from the police chief to surrender its own magazine, stating no political content in the sheet want to publish to. This was successful, and beseech Adolf Glaßbrenner since January 1832 editor of the Berliner Don Quixote - an entertainment for educated sheet items. It was not published until two, then four times a week. Because of political allusions Glaßbrenner was repeatedly warned and eventually the end of 1833 subject to a five year ban.

Then he wrote very successful paperback books that appeared mostly in the Berlin dialect. Because of its political and moral satire Adolf Glaßbrenner was censored again.

The asylum

Glaßbrenner lived with actress Adele Peroni in Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg since his marriage on 15 September 1840. There he wrote his hugely successful New Reynard the Fox, which was banned immediately after publication, and the majority of series notebooks Berlin as it is and - drinking. He scored in Neustrelitz during the March Revolution of 1848/49 the leading Democrats and was expelled from the country in the autumn of 1850. From 1850 he was in Hamburg out humorous magazines. It was not until 1858 he returned to Berlin and relocated since 1868, the Berlin newspaper Monday. In 1869 he gave the responsible editors of the newspaper to Richard Schmidt Cabanis, who continued the leaf after Glaßbrenners death until the year 1883.

Tomb

His tomb, a grave of honor of the city of Berlin, located in the cemetery III of Jerusalem and the New Church at Mehringdamm in the district of Kreuzberg in the Division 1/2 G3.

Works

  • Berlin as it is and - drinking. 30 books, 1832-1850, published in Berlin and Leipzig (some with cover pictures of Theodor Hosemann )
  • From the papers of an executed, 1834
  • Images and dreams of Vienna, 1836
  • German songbook, 1837
  • Colourful Berlin. 14 booklets, 1837-1853
  • From the life of a ghost, 1838
  • Berlin stories and images of life, 1838
  • Mr. buffey in the Berlin Art Exhibition, 4 vols, 1838/39
  • The Berlin Trade Exhibition 1844
  • Forbidden songs ( poems), 1844
  • New Reynard the Fox, 1846
  • Funny People's Calendar, 1846-1867
  • March Almanac, 1849
  • Kaspar, man, 1850 ( Comedy )
  • Laughing children in 1850
  • Reminders of the present, Hamburg 1850
  • Funny Primer, 1850
  • The island marzipan, 1851 ( A 5 - night fairytale ) and text reading
  • Poems, 1851
  • Comic Thousand and One Nights, 1854
  • Talking animals, 1854 ( digitized )
  • The world turned upside down, 1855 ( poem )
  • Humorous back conversations, 1855
  • Beef critters, ventriloquists and grand dukes. Reports from the residence Neustrelitz 1840-1848/49. Edited and annotated by Olaf Briese. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2010 ( AISTHESIS Archive 15 at the same time Vormarz studies XIX). ISBN 978-3-89528-773-2
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