Otto Roquette

Otto Roquette ( born April 19, 1824 in Krotoschin in Poznan, † March 18, 1896 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer.

Life

Roquette was of Huguenot descent; He was the son of the judicial council Louis Roquette and his wife Antoinette Barraud. His first lessons he learned from his grandfather, a Reformed pastor. In 1834 he came to Bromberg and studied from 1846 to 1850 philology and history at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Halle. After traveling to Switzerland and Italy, he moved to Berlin in 1852. There he joined inter alia acquaintance with August Förster, Alfred Graefe, Rudolf Koegel and Julius Hans von Thummel. Many a time they met and to exchange ideas with the writer Louise von François in Weissenfels.

1853 brought one Roquette as a teacher of German and history to the Blochmannsche Institute in Dresden. In 1857 he returned to Berlin and in 1862 professor of literary history at the Prussian Military Academy, before he moved to the Royal Technical Academy in 1867. During this time, he was one of the guests at the regular meeting of the society tunnel over the river Spree. In 1868 he was Corp. loop carrier Teutonia Berlin. From 1869 he taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Darmstadt. In 1893 he was appointed a Privy Councillor. Roquette was friends with the German writer Paul Heyse and how this member of the literary society " Riitli ".

Reception

With its pseudo -romantic, imitative poetry and his fabulously draped Versepik Roquette is a typical representative of Butzenscheibenlyrik. His works were extremely popular after 1850 and enjoyed especially in conservative circles great popularity. Roquette's post-revolutionary fashion poetry was a deliberate departure from the political tendency of the poetry Vormärzepoche. His love, wine, Rhine and youth celebrating epic poem woodruff Brautfahrt first appeared in 1851, it brought in thirty years to more than 50 editions and was a sensational success book for its time. Illustrated by Arpad Schmidhammer.

Roquette was popular with some songs, as with the 1851 and 1863 written by Wilhelm Baumgartner to a well-known folk song set to music the poem is still the blooming, golden time. Roquette also worked as a story writer, playwright, literary historian and autobiographer.

Roquette's work was judged later as predominantly shallow and artistically worthless and is almost forgotten today.

" Dramas were his first works, such as his last, after this bay he has always striven hottest - and yet has him, the man of great understanding of art and rare self-criticism, the inner voice in this a deceived "

Works

Autobiography

  • Seventy years. Story of my life. 2 vols. Bergsträsser, Darmstadt 1894.

Stories

  • Mr. Heinrich. A German legend. Cotta, Stuttgart 1854. (2nd edition 1857)
  • The passage grave. Historical narrative. Katz, Dessau 1855.
  • Narratives. Art & Science, Frankfurt am Main, 1859.
  • New narratives. Cotta, Stuttgart, 1862.
  • Susanne. Narrative. Cotta, Stuttgart 1864.
  • The Legend of St. Elizabeth. Cotta, Stuttgart 1866.
  • Luginsland. Novels. Cotta, Stuttgart 1867.
  • Pierrot. A story. In: Westermann's yearbook / NF. Volume 5, 1867, pp. 337-350, 449-464, 561-574.
  • Barney must. Narrative. In: German Roman newspaper. Vol 5, Volume 2, 1868.

* The Paradise. Narrative. In: German Roman newspaper. Vol 6, Volume 1, 1869.

  • Novels. Hertz, Berlin, 1870.
  • World and home. Novels. Westermann, Braunschweig 1871/1875.
  • Grim Reaper. In 1873.
  • The snake Queen. New edition: Globus, Berlin 1910 ( German novella Treasure 16. ).
  • New short story book. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1884.
  • Move, novellas. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1884.
  • Days of forest life. Novels. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1884.
  • Large and small people in Alt -Weimar. Novels. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1887.
  • Voices of Spring. Novels. Publisher Scotchman, Wroclaw 1890.
  • Life's masquerade. Amendment. Societäts- printing, Frankfurt am Main, 1890.
  • Narrative poetry. Fontane, Berlin 1892.
  • Nerds. Novels. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1895.
  • Ragtag and bobtail. Novels. Scotchman, Wroclaw 1896.
  • From day to day. Narratives. Cotta, Stuttgart 1896.

Poetry

  • Woodruff Brautfahrt. A Rhine, wine and hiking tale. Epic poem. . Stuttgart 1851 reprint: Summer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902664-36-5.
  • Poems. 3rd edition. Cotta, Stuttgart 1859 ( former Title: Songbook ).
  • The day of St. Jacob. A poem. 3rd edition. Cotta, Stuttgart 1852.
  • House Haide cuckoo. Epic poem. In 1855.
  • Tree in the Odenwald. In 1884.

Novels

  • Henry Falk. Novel in three parts. Trewendt, Berlin, 1879.
  • Euphrosyne. Novel. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1877 ( German Roman Library ).
  • The Buchstabirbuch of passion. Novel. Hertz, Berlin 1878.
  • In the house of their fathers. Novel. In 1878.
  • The school of prophets. Novel. 2 vols. Janke, Berlin, 1879.

Non-fiction

  • Life and densities Johann Christian Günther. Biography. In 1860.
  • History of German poetry. From the oldest monuments to the modern era. Stuttgart 1862/1863. Reprints: Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1879 (2 volumes in one volume ).
  • Friedrich Preller. A picture of life. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1883.

Theater

  • Walpurgis. Drama in five acts. Litfass, Berlin 1850.
  • Orion. A fantasy piece. Schlodtmann, Bremen 1851.
  • The realm of dreams. A dramatic poem in five acts. Schindler, Berlin 1853.
  • Dramatic seals. 3 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1867/1876.
  • Rhampsinit. Carnival comedy in three acts. Herbert, Darmstadt 1873.
  • The house Eberhard. Comedy in four acts. Herbert, Darmstadt 1884.

Werkausgabe

  • Selected Works. 6 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1893.
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