August Lewald

Johann Karl August Lewald ( born October 14, 1792 in Königsberg, † March 10, 1871 in Baden -Baden ) was a German writer and journalist. He also published under the pseudonyms Hans Kindermann, Kurt Walder and Tobias Saturday.

Lewald should become a merchant according to the will of his parents. With 21 years Lewald came as secretary to the tsarist headquarters, worked during the liberation war from 1813 to 1815 in the bar and moved with the troops of General von Rosen to France. From 1818, he worked at the stages of Brno and Munich as an actor. 1824 dedicated to Lewald as director of the Nuremberg theater. Further stations were Bamberg, Hamburg, Paris and Munich. From there they picked Lewald 1834 in Stuttgart, where he settled in 1835 and the journal Europe founded, which he edited until 1846. With Heinrich Heine united him since 1827, a friendship, as with Karl and Karl von Holtei sound that he had met after 1815 in Breslau.

In Stuttgart he associated much with the two actors Moritz Rott and Karl Seydelmann and with Karl Gutzkow, who later became employees of Europe. Lewald sought a reform of the German theater. From 1849 to 1862 he was director at the Stuttgart Court Theatre. In 1851 he converted to Munich from Judaism to Roman Catholic Church.

His last works are strongly influenced by Ultramontanism, his theater Roman ( 1841) carries autobiographical. Lewald's autobiographical writings are an important source works for the understanding of the theater, the political- cultural and literary life in Biedermeier and pre-March period.

August Lewald was a cousin of the father of Fanny Lewald.

Works

  • Gorgona. Pictures of the French Middle Ages, 1833
  • Panorama of Munich, 1835
  • General theater revue, 1835-1837
  • Europe. Chronicle of the educated world, 1835-1846
  • Watercolors from life, 4 vols, 1836/37
  • New watercolors from life, 2 vols, 1840
  • From the Life of Frederick the Great Part 1: Katte. Part 2: Rheinberg. Stuttgart 1840 1841. 2 vols
  • Roman Theatre, 5 vols, 1841
  • Collected Writings, 12 vols, 1844/45 ( also titled A human life )
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