Heinrich Leopold Wagner

Heinrich Leopold Wagner ( born February 19, 1747 in Strasbourg, † March 4, 1779 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer of the Sturm und Drang.

Life

Heinrich Leopold Wagner was born on 19 February 1747 in Strasbourg, the eldest son of a merchant. After leaving school, he studied jurisprudence in Strasbourg. 1773 he went to Saarbrücken, where he worked as a tutor. From there, he came in 1774 over two bridges and casting to Frankfurt am Main. 1776, he resumed his studies in Strasbourg on again and locked it with his doctoral examination. As of 21 September 1776, he worked as a lawyer in Frankfurt, where he probably died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 4, 1779 at the young age of 32. Wagner had contact with several important writers of the Sturm and Drang, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), Christoph Kaufmann (1753-1795), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) and Johann Friedrich Müller, painter named Müller, ( 1749-1825 ). Together with Klinger and Lenz Wagner was described by contemporaries as Goethianer, as these three authors were from Goethe's confined personal friends. He is, however, as the most insignificant of Goethianer. His most important work is the 1776 published The Drama child killer, a typical socially critical drama of the Sturm und Drang. This work has been revised by Peter Hacks 1957.

Works

  • Prometheus, Deucalion and his reviewers, 1775, a Harlequinade in doggerel, in which the enemy Goethe are mocked; this work led to a rift with Goethe
  • The benevolent Unknown, 1775
  • The remorse after the fact, in 1775
  • New Essay on the Dramatic Arts, 1776, a translation of the book you théatre ou nouvel essai sur l'art by Louis- Sébastien Mercier dramatique
  • Life and death Sebastian Silligs, a novel fragment
  • The child killer ( tragedy in six acts ), 1776; took place on 6 May 2010 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, the UA of the piece Schattenkinder Nuran David Calis, a free adaptation of the play.
  • Letters Seylersche society concerning, 1777
  • Evie Humbrecht or your mothers merkts you!, 1778, a processing of the child killer
  • Phaeton, Romance from 1774 dedicated to the Prince of Nassau- Saarbrück
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