Julius Grosse

Julius Waldemar Grosse ( born April 25, 1828 in Erfurt, † May 9, 1902 in Torbole, Italy ) was a German writer (pseudonym: Otfried von der Ilm ) and theater critic.

Life

Julius Grosse, the son of a chaplain, studied from 1849 in Halle ( Saale) jurisprudence. In the next few years emerged early dramas. 1851 its first fruits, the tragedy Cola di Rienzi and ridiculous night game of Shakespeare have been performed with such success that Big opted for termination of studies.

In 1852 he moved to Munich, which then attracted artists from all over the German-speaking world. Out to Big tried to the screen and studied painting at the Academy until 1855. Together with the Boyfriend, poet and later Nobel Paul Heyse 1854 he founded the literary group " The Crocodiles ", a merger mostly North German writer in Munich. 1855-1861 Great was hired as a drama critic for the arts section at the New Munich newspaper. After a stint as an editor at the newspaper Leipziger Illustrirten 1862 he returned back to the capital of Bavaria and worked for the Bavarian newspaper until it five years later her appearance was established. Big, however, had as his successor in the role of Goethe as editor of the Propylaea and the Advisory Board of the Court Theatre sufficient alternative employment.

From 1869 lived Big alternately in Dresden and Weimar, where he had to stop as Secretary General of the Schiller Foundation because of his new job. As early as 1870 or 1871-73 published with the collected dramatic works and the narrative ends seals Werkausgaben of the writer. 1885 Big referred back permanent residence in Munich. Honored as Grand Ducal court counselor and professor, he died in 1902 at Lake Garda at the age of 74 years.

Literary creation

Big was one of the most prolific writers of his time. Although his stage plays hardly ever came to great public success, the more his poems and prose. Meyers Lexicon wrote at the end of the 19th century about the author:

Works (selection)

  • Romance, ballad
  • Poems ( 1857), a collection of poems
  • The Ynglinger (1858 ), Tragedy
  • The girl of Capri ( 1860), poem
  • Novels ( 1862-63 )
  • Gundel from the Koenigssee. Idyll in verse (1864 )
  • Vox populi (1867 ), stories
  • Unfaithful out of pity (1868 ), short story
  • From moving days (1869 ), a collection of poems
  • An old love (1869 ), short story
  • A Revolutionary (1869 ), short story
  • Resist France (1870 ), poems
  • Maria Mancini ( 1871), short story
  • Hilpah and Shalum, a vorsündflutliche History ( 1871)
  • The Wasunger distress, a tragicomic hero song (1873 )
  • Open Wounds (1873 ), short stories
  • Daponte and Mozart ( 1874)
  • The Adventures of Kalewiden. Estonian Folk Tales (1875 )
  • New Stories ( 1875)
  • Sophie Monnier (1876 ), short story
  • Tiberius (1876 ) Drama
  • Sophie Monnier (1876 ), short story
  • Double standards (1878 )
  • Poems. New selection. (1882 )
  • Bourgeois Demetrius (1884 )
  • The faithful Eckart (1885 )
  • A Frauenlos (1888 ), short story
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