Friedrich Spielhagen

Friedrich Spielhagen ( born February 24, 1829 in Magdeburg, † February 25, 1911 in Berlin) was a German writer.

Life

Friedrich Spielhagen was the son of the Royal Hydraulic inspector Friedrich August Wilhelm Spielhagen (* 1785, † 1855) and his wife Henriette Wilhelmine, born Robrahn (* 1789, † 1849) was born in Magdeburg, where he spent the first six years of his life. After that, he lived in Stralsund, where he attended the High School Sundische. He was married to Therese Boutin (* 1835, † 1900) and had with her a daughter, Elsa Spielhagen (* 1866, † 1942), whose son tragically killed whilst second mayor of Wroclaw, Wolfgang Spielhagen was. Another daughter, Toni ( Antonia ), was also active as a writer.

Training

After graduating from high school Spielhagen studied 1847-1851 jurisprudence and philology in Bonn (where he was a member of the fraternity in 1848 Franconia ), Berlin and Greifswald. Then Spielhagen worked as a tutor in Pomerania and also tried his hand as an actor and soldier. Later he returned to the teaching profession and taught in Leipzig at a trade school. In addition, he worked intensively with literature and began after the death of his father, the government official had been in Stralsund, to devote himself entirely to writing.

Career as a writer

1857 wrote Spielhagen his first short story, which was titled Clara Vere. It was, like his 1858 published book " On the Dune", never noticed by a larger audience. During this time Spielhagen began for newspapers or magazines such as the newspaper for Northern Germany ( 1860-1862 ) or Westermann's Illustrated German Monatshefte ( 1878-1884 ) to write. The activities at the newspaper for Northern Germany began Spielhagen 1860, after he had moved from Leipzig to Hannover. In 1861 he succeeded to the 1078 - page novel " Problematic natures " a great success, which is under the influence of Karl Gutzkow. A year later, a sequel was published under the title Through night to light. In the same year the novella appeared in the twelfth hour. End of 1862 was Spielhagen on his job in Hanover, and moved to Berlin.

There he worked for some time for various leaves and went on trips to Switzerland, Italy, England, France and other European countries. 1864 appeared the amendment florets from the court as well as the novel The Hohenstein, who dealt with the revolutionary movement of 1848. This was followed in 1866 the novel in rank and file and 1868 the humorous novel The Dorfcoquette. 1869, the amendment German pioneers arrived hammer and anvil and a year out later. Several years later the most famous text by Friedrich Spielhagen, storm surge appeared. This novel is only reduced in printed form. The conclusion of this intense creative period was formed in 1878, the novel Platt country. The most important writings of his later years were more interested in literature only theoretical. On June 28, 1903 wrote Spielhagen a letter of condolence to the writer colleague Dr. Anton Bettelheim to death the son of Otto Heinrich and announced it to his imminent sanatorium Dr. Hauck in Schierke.

On February 25, 1911 Spielhagen died in Berlin at the age of 82 years.

Spielhagen was buried at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin -Westend. The tomb is one of the graves honor the State of Berlin.

His hometown Magdeburg named a street ( Spielhagen road ) after him. Other places in which Spielhagen worked part time, honored him with a street name, Hannover, Stralsund, Berlin and Nuremberg.

Appreciation

Friedrich Spielhagen works are strongly influenced by his love of the sea, which he developed during his time in Stralsund. The novels of this, often referred to as a "great novelist of Germany" writers were regarded as anti- feudal, radical- democratic and liberal. In later years Spielhagen rejected the bourgeoisie and the Prussian- German development from more and more. In addition to novels, short stories and theoretical texts Spielhagen also wrote several dramas, but the quality of his novels and short stories not reached. In some trains Spielhagen takes the themes and techniques of Eduard von Keyserling anticipated. The best of his later novels point forward to the Berlin Modernism, when his works were also sharply rejected by the younger generation literature of the Wilhelmine period.

Spielhagen was an unrivaled master of the Roman commencement; in the later course of action lose his great novels some momentum; original narrative style often stands next to passages that approach the usual popular literature of his time. The peculiar mix of excitement, routine and psychological observation makes the reading of many of his novels to this day for pleasure.

Works ( selection)

  • Clara Vere, novella, 1857
  • On the dune, short story, 1858
  • Problematic natures, Novel, 4 vols, 1861 Vol 1 Janke, Berlin, 1861. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Vol 2 Janke, Berlin, 1861. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Vol 3 Janke, Berlin, 1861. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Vol 4 Janke, Berlin, 1861. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )

Others

  • F. S. talks about anti-Semitism. In: Hermann Bahr: anti-Semitism. An international interview. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1894, pp. pp. 5-10; Reproduction: Jewish publisher / Atheneum, 1980 ISBN 3761080433 Frankfurt P. 17 - 19; again vdg, 2005 ISBN 389739507X ( = Bahr, Crit. Schr in EA, 3)
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