Phöbus

Phoebus - A journal for the arts was a published by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam Heinrich Müller literary magazine. The journal was published between January 1808 and December 1808 in twelve booklets in nine deliveries in Dresden.

Plan for the magazine

The journal was named after the epithet of the Greek god Phoebus Apollo. The cover drawing of the first issue, created by Ferdinand Hartmann, was the sun god Phoebus as on a chariot drawn by horses of the sun passes over Dresden. In his intent for the first issue Kleist bedichtete it this way: " Wettre in, O you with your blazing steeds, / Phoebus, Bringer of the day, into infinite space! "

Ajar was the Journal of Schiller's Horen. Trying to promote the magazine by renowned authors such as Goethe and Schiller, failed quickly because these distanced themselves from the project. Thus, and because Müller and Kleist neither a detailed plan, nor had relationships with booksellers, Phoebus failed soon; the two editors had to shoot money. The exact circulation is not known, but Klaus Günzel goes into his Kleist 's biography on the assumption that no more than 150 copies were sold per issue.

Content and Development

As well as the magazine as a whole - - was added little low in the first issue of a fragment of Kleist's Penthesilea drama, the critically appeared. One example is the review of Karl August Böttiger from February 6, 1808 quoted in the states, inter alia: " On the other hand, there are a lot of places where the sense to find either all or nothing, or at least very twisted and cranky ... "Even Goethe saw the similar, although Kleist him with an almost obsequious letter the first issue of Phoebus " on the knees of his heart was offering. " Goethe's contributions to the Journal failed to materialize and his fate was actually sealed already with the first number.

Nevertheless, Kleist and Müller went on. The accumulating debt, however, led rapidly to tensions between the two editors. As Mueller sold the book behind Kleist's back to a Dresdner bookseller ( against repayment of the debt ), the ratio between the two cooled off noticeably.

Contents of the booklets

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First issue, January 1808

• Prolog, von Kleist
• Organic fragment from the tragedy Penthesilea, Kleist
• On the significance of the dance by Christian Gottfried Körner
• The angel at the tomb of the Lord of Kleist
• Dorothee Novalis
• Fragments of the dramatic poetry and art, from Müller
• Popularity and mysticism, of Müller
• About the literary character of Madame de Stael -Holstein, Muller
• Epilogue, von Kleist

Second Issue, February 1808

• The Marquise of O ..., von Kleist
• The two pigeons, a fable by La Fontaine, von Kleist
• Lectures on the beautiful, Muller
• Corinne ou l'Italie par Madame de Stael -Holstein, Muller

Third Issue, March 1808

• Lectures on the Beautiful ( continued), by Müller
• Fragments from the comedy The Broken Jug, von Kleist
• Fables, von Kleist
• Pelegrin (excerpts), by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Fourth and Fifth Issue, April, May 1808

• Fragment from the tragedy Robert Guiscard, von Kleist
• The old man and his translator, Wetzel
• The adventures of the Fiddler to Shiraz, by God Help Heinrich Schubert
• M. and S., Novalis
• Lectures on the Beautiful ( continued), by Müller
• Faareveile, Adam Öhlenschläger
• Irony, comedy, Aristophanes, Muller
• Fragments of a lecture by Schubert
• Epigrams, von Kleist
• Something about landscape painting by Müller
• Variation on the Muses and Graces in the marrow, of Wetzel
• Fragment from the play Cathy of Heilbronn, von Kleist
• Saul and David Wetzel

Sixth Issue, June 1808

• La fête de la victoire où le retour of Grecs of Anne Germaine de Staël
• The Tale of the long nose, Wetzel
• From the great Christopher, Wetzel
• Michael Kohlhaas, Kleist
• Apology of the French dramatic literature, from Müller
• Art criticism, Muller
• Epigrams, von Kleist

Seventh Issue, July 1808

• From the character of the Spanish poetry of Müller
• From the didactic poetry of William Nienstädt
• Iduna, goddess of immortality, of Wetzel
• God's power, by Wetzel
• The omitted church of Wetzel
• Philosophical and critical Miscellen, various authors

Eighth Issue, August 1808

• The Wole grave, Wetzel
• Introduction to the consideration of the Greek stage, Muller
• Kleobis and Biton, of Wetzel
• From the didactic poetry ( continued), by Nienstädt
• Philosophical and critical Miscellen, Muller
• The school of Johann Müller, Müller
• Something about the difference of ancient and modern theater, from Müller

Ninth and tenth issue, September / October 1808

• From the religious character of the Greek stage, Muller
• For vintage, Novalis
• Second fragment from the play Cathy of Heilbronn, von Kleist
• Fragments about William Shakespear, by Müller
• Small occasional poems, von Kleist

Eleventh and twelfth issue, November / December 1808

• Prolegomena an art philosophy, Muller
• Song of the youth, of Wetzel
• The death, of Wetzel
• Curse of the time, of Wetzel
• The jewel of Wetzel
• The horror in the bath, von Kleist
• Kunz of Kauffungen, by Count Otto Heinrich von Löben
• The dying Mary, of of Löben
• The sky propelled Mary, of of Löben
• Pressure of the soul, of Müller
• Italian theater, masks, Extemporiren, Muller
• Spirits nearby, Wetzel
• About the German family paintings, Muller
• In J. Muller
• Invisible writing, of Wetzel
• Wanderers day trip from Wetzel
• Wanderers evening, Wetzel
• Wanderers camp, Wetzel
• About art exhibitions and art criticism, by Ferdinand Hartmann
• Noth and Hülfsbüchlein for artists and art lovers in Mild Home, by Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius of Ramdohr