Oskar von Redwitz

Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz ( born June 28, 1823 in Lichtenau ( Middle Franconia ), † July 6, 1891 in St. Gilgen mountain near Bayreuth ) was a German poet.

  • 3.1 poems
  • 3.2 novels
  • 3.3 dramas

Life

Origin

Oskar von Redwitz was born in Lichtenau, near Ansbach, on 28 June 1823. He comes from the formerly rich immediate Frankish noble family of Redwitz and was the son of Bavarian officials Ludwig von Redwitz (1779-1848) and his wife Anna née Miller, the niece of the poet Johann Martin Miller.

Life transition

After attending schools in Speyer and Zweibrücken studied v. Redwitz in Munich and Erlangen. Since 1843 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich.

After that Redwitz contender for the Bavarian civil service ( 1846-49 ). Subsequently, he studied languages ​​and literature at Bonn ( 1849-50 ) and in 1851 professor of aesthetics and history of literature at the University of Vienna. In 1852 he gave up this position and moved to his country seat Schellenberg ( Schellenberger yard ) in Weilerbach, Palatinate. The estate had its coming from Speyer wife Mathilde Hoscher, whom he married in Weilerbach 1851, introduced into the marriage.

In 1854 he moved to his castle Schmölz near Kronach. This he did extend until 1857 a south wing. But in 1861 sold the baron the ancestral home of his family Redwitz - Schmölz to the barons of Egloffstein.

As an elected member of the Bavarian Regional Chamber in 1862 he moved to Munich. In 1872 he chose his residence in Merano to the residence. Here he associated, inter alia, the writer Fedor von Zobeltitz. The last years of his life were spent in a sanatorium for " nervous disorders " near Bayreuth, where he died on July 6, 1891.

Both in Weilerbach, as well as in his native Lichtenau streets are named after the poet today.

Progeny

The couple had several children. The son of Max Redwitz (1858-1920) was a general of the cavalry and Hofmeister in the royal house of Wittelsbach, the daughter of Marie Redwitz (1856-1933), maid of honor at Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, was active as a writer, the other daughter, Anna Redwitz (1852-1924), had married the railway industrialist Otto von Kuhlmann; her son, the diplomat Richard von Kuhlmann took in World War I perceive the official business of the German Foreign Minister. Her grandson was the German FDP politician Knut von Kuhlmann - Stumm ( 1916-1977 ).

Work as a writer

The pious sentimentality of his romantic epic Amaranth (1849; 42nd 1898) already earned him an enthusiastic admirer. The work followed Tale ( 1850), Poems (1852 ) and the tragedy Sieglinde (1854 ). At Castle Schmölz he wrote the tragedy of Sir Thomas More (1856 ), the historical dramas Philippine Welser (1859 ) and The Guild Master from Nuremberg ( 1860), one of which brought in the first two great success.

In 1868 he published the novel Hermann Stark, German life, and 1871 Song of the new German Empire ( Song of the New German Reich, consisting of several hundred patriotic sonnets ).

As an ongoing voice creation of Redwitz 'got to " Shoo, shoo - The Forest Fairy " ( of Philippine Welser ).

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Amaranth (1849 )
  • A Fairy Tale (1850 ) ( digitized at lexikus.de / free digital copy at Google Books)
  • Poems (1852 )
  • The song from the new German Empire ( 1871)
  • A German house book (1883 )

Novels

  • Herman Stark, German Life ( 1868)

Dramas

  • Sieglinde (1853 )
  • Thomas More (1856 )
  • Philippine Welser (1859 )
  • The Doge of Venice ( 1863)
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