Hermann Kurz

Hermann Kurz ( born November 30, 1813 in Reutlingen, † October 10, 1873 in Tübingen ) was a German writer of the Swabian school of poets, journalist and translator. He is the father of Isolde Kurz.

  • 3.1 Werkausgaben
  • 3.2 reprises

Curriculum vitae

He was born as Hermann Kurtz, modernized its name but 1848. His parents died early. After the completion of the Württemberg Country exam, he attended the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Maulbronn and then studied at the Protestant pen in Tübingen. During his studies he joined the fraternity in 1831 patriots. After his theological examination in 1835, he worked for several months as a curate in Ehningen, but then moved to Stuttgart, where he lived as a freelance writer and translator.

There he met, among others, Edward Moerike, Justinus Kerner and Gustav Schwab know. In 1848 he became a member of the "German family book for the instruction and entertainment" in Karlsruhe and editor of the " Democratic observer " in Stuttgart.

1851 had to serve a three-week detention at Hohenasperg short as punishment for an improper article. Then he married Marie, Baroness of Brunnow, a Ururgroßnichte the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, by the plea for more freedom, equality and compassion in his social utopia The Gilded time - had become revolutionary (1759, 1761 ). The couple had four sons: Edgar, Erwin, Alfred and Balde and the daughter Isolde. 1856 retired from public life short back and moved first (1858 ) to Oberesslingen where the family had bought the estate in 1863 to Kirchheim unter Teck, and then to Tübingen, where he was a librarian at the University of Tübingen. In 1865 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock.

At the inauguration of the Tübingen Uhland monument he retreated to a sunstroke, from which he never recovered and died of the consequences of it on 10 October 1873. He was buried in the town cemetery in Tübingen.

Works (selection)

Poetry and Prose

  • Faust's coat drive. A small collection of epigrams. In addition to an appendix old epigrams of Owenius, Tübingen 1834.
  • Poems. Stuttgart 1836.
  • Genzianen. An amendment ostrich. Stuttgart 1837.
  • Seals. Pforzheim 1839.
  • Schiller's home years. Patriotic novel. Stuttgart 1843.
  • The Sun host. Swabian folk history from the last century. Frankfurt 1856.
  • The Christmas Fund. An image of the soul from the Swabian folk life. Frankfurt 1856.
  • Narratives. 3 vols, Stuttgart from 1858 to 1861.
  • About Shakespeare's life and work. Old and new, Munich 1868.
  • From the days of shame. Historical images from the Melacszeit. Stuttgart in 1871.
  • Falstaff and his companions. By Paul Konewka. Text by Hermann Kurz, Strasbourg o.J.
  • Lisardo. Roman, ed. and with an afterword provided by Heinz Kindermann, Stuttgart 1919.

Translations

  • Selected poems of Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott and others in teutschen transfers, Reutlingen 1834.
  • The alleged aunt. Posthumous student novella by Cervantes, Stuttgart 1836.
  • Spirit of Judaism. From the English ( the D'Israeli, father), Stuttgart, 1836.
  • Ariosto 's breakneck Roland. 3 vols, Stuttgart and Pforzheim 1840-1841.
  • Captain Marryat. Japhet in search of a father, Stuttgart 1843.
  • Tristan and Isolde. Poem by Gottfried von Strassburg. Transferring and decided by Hermann Kurtz, Stuttgart 1844.
  • Thomas Moore's Paradise and the Peri. With an appendix Byron'scher songs. For lovers of poetry by Hermann Kurtz, Stuttgart 1844.
  • Chateaubriand. Spirit of Christianity, Ulm 1844.
  • Chateaubriand's selected works. 12 vols, Ulm from 1844 to 1846.
  • William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Leipzig 1867.
  • Cervantes ' Nine interludes, Hildburghausen 1868.

Essays

  • The Adventures of Simplicissimus. A novel from the time of the Thirty Years' War. Edited by Eduard von Bülow. Leipzig Brockhaus. 1836th [ Review ], in: Der Spiegel. Journal of literary criticism and Entertainment 5-6 ( 1837).
  • The questions of the present and the free men of word. Vote of a poet in political affairs, Ulm 1845.
  • If you please. The fight with the dragon. A knight and fairy tales. To the best of the singer Tristan and Tristan critic Mr. Oswald Marbach with new, medium and Old High German but all over the world understand glosses given Karlsruhe 30 November 1844 Stuttgart and Cannstatt 1845.
  • Historical and artistic explanations of L. White 's Picture Atlas of World History, Stuttgart 1864.

Editorial Boards

  • The annoying life and terrible end of the much infamous ore black artist John Fausti. In the first place diligently described by Georg Rudolph Widmann many years ago, afterwards overlooked and re- edited by Ch Nikolaus Pfitzer, Med D. Nürnb. A. 1647th jetzo hung up, but on 's New and embellished with 16 woodcuts, Reutlingen 1834.
  • German novella treasure. Vol 1-18, ed. Short of Paul Heyse and Hermann, Munich 1870-1874.
  • Amendment treasure from abroad. Vol 1-10, ed. Short of Paul Heyse and Hermann, Munich 1872-1874.

Letters

  • Hermann Fischer: Hermann Kurz in his letters to Gustav Schwab, in: Special Supplement to the State Gazette of Württemberg 1908, pp. 1-10, 42-49.
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz in his youth. According to unpublished letters, in: Süddeutsche Monatshefte 3 (1906 ), pp. 56-67, 246-255, 388-402, 499-514, 620-632.
  • Different:. Hiking years of a poet, in: Süddeutsche Monatshefte 5 (1908 ), pp. 571-577.
  • Heinz Kindermann ( eds.): Exchange of letters between Hermann Kurz and Eduard Moerike, ed.. Heinz Kindermann, Stuttgart 1919 (Parallel Edition: Jacob Baechtold (eds. ), Stuttgart 1885)

Editions (selection)

Werkausgaben

  • Collected Works. With a biography of the poet, ed. v. Paul Heyse, 10 vols, Stuttgart 1874
  • All works in twelve volumes, ed. and inlaid. by Hermann Fischer, Leipzig 1904

Reprises

  • Hermann Kurz: The Sun host. Swabian folk history. Jürgen Schweier Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck in 1980, ISBN 3-921829-07-0
  • Hermann Kurz: Schiller's home years. The Wanderings of Heinrich Roller. Jürgen Schweier Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck, 1986, ISBN 3-921829-22-4
  • The annoying life and terrible end of the much infamous Ore Black Artist Johannis Fausti. After the expenditure of GRWidmann and JNPfitzer anew edited by Hermann Kurz. Faksimiliedruck the edition of 1834 for the 900th anniversary of the first mention of the city of Reutlingen published again, with an afterword and word explanations of Bernd meal. Jürgen Schweier Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck, 1990, ISBN 3-921829-29-1
  • Hermann Kurz: Mountain fairy tale. Adventures in home & Love the mountains. Jürgen Schweier Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck in 1999, ISBN 3-921829-35-6
  • Werner Ströbele (ed.): The free men of word: a democratic polemic / Hermann Kurz. With a pref by Heribert Prantl and an afterword by Werner Ströbele, Tübingen: Klopfer & Meyer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86351-073-2

Secondary literature (selection)

  • Otto Borst: The Reichstädter Hermann Kurz, in: Reutlingen history leaves New Series 50 (1958 /59), pp. 62-69.
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz. Poet and translator, literary historian and political writer, in: life images from Swabia and Franconia 8, ed. by Max Miller and Robert Uhland, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 212-254 ( = Swabian life pictures Vol 8).
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz, in: The secret rebels. Swabia heads from five centuries, Stuttgart 1980, p 209-229.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Dictionary of the German fraternity. Volume I, politicians, sub-band 3: I- L. Heidelberg 1999, pp. 210-211.
  • Hermann Fischer: Short, Hermann. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 425 f
  • Peter Härtling: An unfulfilled legacy. Speaking at the opening of Herman Short - exhibition in Reutlingen in 1988, Kirchheim 1988.
  • Jörg Jungmayr: Hermann Kurz and Godfrey of Strasbourg, in: " From wyßheit Württemberg geert the human ... ", ed. by Ingrid Kühn / Gotthard Lerchner, Frankfurt 1993, pp. 291-320.
  • Mite Kiemnitz: A Forty, in: The Blue Book 1 (1906 ), pp. 1809-1814.
  • Heinz Kindermann: Hermann Kurz in his early days, Diss Mss Vienna 1918.
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz and the German translation of art in the 19th century. Literary-historical investigation, Stuttgart 1918.
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz as a literary historian. A contribution to the intellectual history of the 19th century, in: Festschrift Theodor screen 70th birthday, ed. by Walther Steller, Wroclaw 1933, pp. 323-353.
  • Different:. Hermann Kurz and his ballads, in: 21st Annual Report of the Swabian Schiller Association (1917 /18), pp. 32-42.
  • Tilman Krause: The other German tradition. Hermann Kurz ' Bildungsroman' Schiller's home years - a basic book of the vastness of this world and faith in: Reutlingen history leaves New Series 45 (2006), 121-138.
  • Rudolf Krauss: Hermann Kurz, in: idem: Swabian History of Literature, Vol 2, Freiburg / Leipzig / Tübingen 1899, pp. 262-270, emphasis Kirchheim 1975.
  • Friedrich Kürnberger: Hermann Kurz in his major writings, in: idem: Literary punishment at Hermann Kurz, in: Social History of German literature in the 19th century. Part 2, ed. by Monika Dimpfl / Georg Jäger, Tübingen 1990, pp. 25-84.
  • Isolde Kurz: Hermann Kurz. A contribution to his life story, Munich / Leipzig 1906.
  • Fritz Martini: Short, Hermann. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194- X, pp. 329-332 ( digitized ).
  • Ernst Müller: Hermann Kurz, in: pin heads. Swabian ancestors of the German spirit from the Tübingen Seminary, Heilbronn 1938, pp. 357-365.
  • Werner Ströbele (ed.): " I have fallen between the times." Hermann Kurz - realist writer, editor of Revolution, translator and literary historian, Reutlingen 1988 ( = catalog 175th birthday, City Gallery Reutlingen ).
  • Emil Sulger - Gebing: Hermann Kurz, a German poet of the people. A characteristic, together with a bibliography of his writings, Berlin, 1904.
  • Bonaventura Tecchi: Hermann Kurz, in: idem: Svevi Minori, Rome, 1975, pp. 53-129.
  • Gert Ueding: " What is what hurt in us lies, steals and murders? ". The narrator Hermann Kurz, in: Suevica. Contributions to the Swabian literature and intellectual history 6 (1991 ), pp. 39-58.
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