Ernst Wichert

Ernst Wichert ( born March 11, 1831 in Insterburg, East Prussia, † January 21, 1902 in Berlin) was a German writer and lawyer.

Life

Ernst Wichert attended secondary school in pillau and later the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg. As a student of law at the Albertus University of Königsberg, he was a member of the progressivist fraternity Palmburgia. After the assessor time in Memel he was sheriff in 1860 Prökuls (now in Lithuania). Three years later he came back as a city judge to Königsberg, where he (according to other sources 1879) High Court Judge was at the High Court Königsberg in 1877 and received an honorary doctorate. From the Three Emperors 1888 Wichert was as Kammergerichtsrat in Berlin. In 1896 he went as a Privy Councillor in retirement.

The poet lawyer - known as "the poet and judge" - was co-editor of Old Prussian monthly magazine and co-founder of the German cooperative dramatic authors and composers who in 1871 founded in Leipzig in life. Later renamed German playwright in association oldest regional author network in Germany now operates as a dramatist - Union.

Works

Wichert has published 34 works for the stage, 28 novels and 15 short stories mostly multi-volume collections.

His knowledge of the social reality in the German Empire and its events and experiences from the court everyday flowed into his works. In the " Lithuanian stories " told Wichert of life and the struggle for existence of fishermen and countrymen.

In his plays and prose works, he met the need of the Wilhelmine bourgeoisie after confirmation of his values ​​and faith in the future of the Bismarck Reich. They form a culturally and historically authentic portrayal of the 19th century.

Plays

  • Our General York, drama, 1858
  • The withing of Sambia, tragedy, 1860
  • Light and shade, drama, 1861
  • The Fool of happiness, comedy, 1871
  • One step of the way, comedy, UA November 16, 1871 at the Stadttheater Königsberg; a limited edition containing material on the life and work was published in 1999 in Baltica Verlag ( Flensburg ). ISBN 3-934097-05-7
  • The realists, comedy, 1874
  • Bending or breaking, comedy, 1874
  • At the Major Area, comedy, 1875
  • The woman of the world, drama, 1876 ( already in the season 1874/75 at the City Theatre Königsberg listed )
  • Maurice of Saxony, tragedy, UA December 6, 1876 at the Stadttheater Königsberg
  • The friend of the prince, comedy, 1879
  • Peter Munk, drama, 1882
  • In the service of duty, historical drama, 1896

Novels, short stories, novellas

  • From a decent family, novel, 1866
  • Heinrich von Plauen, novel, 1881 online version
  • Lithuanian stories, 1881
  • From the Life, short stories, 1882
  • Under a blanket, novella, 1883
  • The Great Elector of Prussia, novel, 1887
  • The mayor of Thorn, novel
  • The judge of Thorn (?) Stories

Autobiography

  • Judge and poet. A life ID 1899

Films

  • Elze's Life ( Elze iš Giljos ), based on the story The Schaktarp, ( Lit- D, 1999), directed by Algimatas Puipa, with Egle Jaselskytė, Aušra Venckunaitė among others
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