Theodor Storm

Hans Theodor Storm Woldsen ( born September 14, 1817 in Husum, † July 4, 1888 in Hanerau -Hademarschen ) was a German writer who was important as a poet and as a writer of short stories and prose of German realism with the north German style. In civilian job Storm was a lawyer.

• 3.1 Poems (Selection)
• 3.2 fairytale
• 3.3 novellas (selection)

• 4.1 Werkausgaben
• 4.2 editions of letters

• 5.1 Periodical writings
• 5.2 Biographical representations
• 5.3 Individual studies
• 5.4 Scientific investigations Edition

• 6.1 works on the Internet

Life and work

Childhood, youth and education (1817-1842)

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm was the first child of the Judicial Council Johann Casimir Storm and his wife, the patrician daughter Lucie Woldsen in Husum, Markt 9, was born. 1818 the family moved into the house Neustadt 56, 1821 in the house of the grandparents Woldsen, Hohle Gasse 3 In the autumn of Storm came into the cliff school one, from 1826 to 1835 he attended the Husum Gelehrtenschule, then for three semesters the Katharineum in Lübeck.

Storm wrote as a 15- year-old student his first poems, which were modeled on the then-popular weekly poetry (first handed down poem: To Emma, 1833); at school he learned to imitate examples of ancient poetry and wrote his first prose. Four poems, and several journalistic works were printed in Husum weekly ( singer Evening Song, July 27, 1834) and in Dithmarsch and Eiderstedter messenger.

In Lübeck Storm Ferdinand Roese met, by whom he was familiar with the contemporary literature, including Goethe's Faust, Heine's Book of Songs and Eichendorff's poetry and prose.

In 1837 Storm studied law at the University of Kiel, where he was a member of the fraternity Albertina Kiel, and Berlin. Thus began his friendship with Theodor and Tycho Mommsen, with whom he carried a collection of Schleswig -Holstein songs, fairy tales and legends. In 1843 they jointly published the songbook of three friends that includes self-composed poems of the three authors. In September 1837 Storm became engaged to Emma cooling from the island of Foehr; in February 1838 sparked Emma cooling this engagement. In September or October 1842 Storm of living in Altona Bertha made ​​of Buchan, whom he had met in 1837, a marriage proposal rejected this.

Lawyer in Husum (1842-1853)

In 1843 he returned to Husum and opened a law firm. In January 1844, Storm and its cousin Constanze Esmarch ( 1825-1865 ) became engaged, the marriage took place in 1846 in the City Hall of Segeberg. From the marriage seven children were born: Hans ( born January 25, 1848), Ernst ( born January 30, 1851), Charles ( born June 1853), Lisbeth ( born June 10, 1855), Lucie ( 1860), Elsabe (* January 1863 ) and Gertrud ( born May 4, 1865).

Despite the peace treaty of 1850 between Denmark and Prussia Storm took an unforgiving attitude towards Denmark. That's why it withdrew in 1852, the Danish minister Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig Tillisch the Bar.

Gerichtsassessor in Potsdam (1853-1856)

1853 spoke to him in Berlin an unpaid job in the District Court of Potsdam. At this time he published his novella written in 1849 Immensee. During his stay in Potsdam Storm tells of his disgust at the " Prussian human consumption in the state mechanism "; he struggled with professional and financial difficulties. His artistic circle of friends in Riitli, which included inter alia Theodor Fontane and Franz Kugler, contributed to the fact that the republican -minded people felt increasingly isolated in the circles of the Prussian Conservatives.

Circuit Judge in the Holy City (1856-1864)

In 1856 he was appointed Circuit Judge in the Thuringian Holy City.

Bailiff and magistrate in Husum (1864-1880)

After the defeat of Denmark in the German -Danish War of 1864 Storm was appointed in Husum from the population of the city to the bailiff. In March of that year he moved back to Husum.

Constanze Storm died on 24 May 1865 the birth of their daughter Gertrude. His sorrow gave Storm in the strophic poem cycle Deep shadows expression; In addition to the frequently read in school poems The city and Ans Lagoon is now flying the gull counts this cycle to the best known poems Storms.

1866 Storm married the 38 -year-old Dorothea Jensen, whom he had met shortly after his first marriage and with whom he had a passionate relationship. They moved into the house water row 31, which they occupied until 1880 and is now used as Theodor -Storm- Museum. The marriage produced a daughter emerged: Friederike (* November 4, 1868 ).

In 1867 he was appointed in the wake of the Prussian administrative reform after the annexation of Schleswig-Holstein to the district judge. Around 1870 came the then 15 -year-old Ferdinand Tönnies, later one of the founders of sociology, as a proofreader in Storms house and later became his friend. 1874 died Storms father, his mother in 1878. Since 1877, Storm was in correspondence with his Swiss writer Gottfried Keller colleagues.

• Theodor Storm House in Husum
• Living room
• Bailiwick of rooms
• Upstairs
• Ghost Rider Hall
• Staircase
• Silhouette of the poet

Retirement home in Hademarschen (1880-1888)

In May 1880 Storm took early retirement and moved to Hademarschen, where his younger brother John Storm ( 1824-1906 ) operated a timber trade. Theodor Storm had built a villa in the main street of the village. Here are his age stories emerged: The sons of Senators (1880 ), The Lord Privy Councillor (1881 ), Hans and Heinz Kirch (1882 ), The Chronicle of Grieshuus (1884), A Doppelganger (1887 ) and A Confession ( 1887). In May 1886 Storm took a trip to Weimar and visited Erich Schmidt, the local director of the newly founded Goethe archive, and one of his long-time correspondent. After his return, Storm began to work on the novella The Ghost Rider, which appeared in April 1888 as Storms last amendment. On July 4, 1888, he died of stomach cancer in Hademarschen. His final resting place he found in the cemetery " St. Jürgen " in Husum.

Aftereffect

Storm is one of the most important German representatives of the " civil " or " poetic realism ", where in addition to his poems, especially his short stories established his fame. Many of his works are still being launched. The novella The Ghost Rider is often used as reading in German classes. The book has been filmed several times.

Ten years after his death Storms created by Adolf Brütt memorial bust was unveiled in Husum Castle Park on his birthday. The town of Husum is today known as gray town by the sea, after the Storm Poem The City. In Husum and the rest of the Duchy of Schleswig play many stories Storms. Numerous public institutions throughout Germany, including squares, streets and the Theodor -Storm- School Husum, are named after him. The German Society for Sea Rescue named the Seenotkreuzer Theodor Storm after the writer.

The Theodor -Storm -Gesellschaft has approximately 1100 members, is dedicated to the exploration of his works and has its own scientific journal (the " writings of Theodor -Storm -Gesellschaft " ) out. Its current chairman is the literary scholar Heinrich Detering. It has its headquarters in Theodor Storm House in Husum water series.

The painter Angelika Dering Dering and Elizabeth are great-granddaughters of Storms.

Works

Poems (Selection)

• To Emma ( 1833)
• Singer Evening Song (1834 )
• Beggars Love ( 1843 )
• Twilight (1843 )
• Evening (1845 )
• Away (1847 )
• Red Roses (1847 )
• August (1849 )
• The Children ( 1852)
• The City (1852 )
• Farewell (1853 )
• From March ( 1854)
• For my sons (1854 )
• On the File Table ( 1855 )
• April (1859 )
• Knecht Ruprecht (1862 )
• The beginning of the end ( 1864)
• The Lump (1864 )
• Doubt (1864 )
• Deep Shadows (1865 )
• The officer (1867 )
• On Birthdays (1868 )
• Bury therefore thy dearest (1870 )
• Constanze (1870 )
• At Klaus Groth (1872 )
• Do not go into it (1879 )
• To Mrs. Do (1883 )
• Love
• Across the heath
• The Nightingale
• October song
• From Cats
• Sea ​​beach
• Under stars

Fairy tale

• The small Häwelmann (1849 )
• Bulemanns House ( 1862)
• The Regentrude (1862 )
• The mirror of Cyprian (1862 )

Novellas (selection)

• Marthe and her Clock (1847 )
• Immensee (1849 ) ( digitized and full text archive in the German text of the first independent edition, Duncker, Berlin 1852)
• In The Sunshine (1854 )
• Angelika (1855 )
• On the Staatshof (1859 )
• Veronica (1859 )
• Late Roses (1860 )
• In the Castle (1862 )
• On the University (1863 )
• Away (1863 )
• Bottom Tannenbaum (1864 )
• From Beyond the Sea ( 1865)
• In St. Jürgen (1867 )
• A painter working (1867 )
• Outside in Heidedorf (1872 )
• Pole Poppenspäler (1874 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• Forest angle ( 1874) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• When cousin Christian ( 1874)
• Viola tricolor (1874 )
• A silent Musician (1875 )
• Psyche ( 1875)
• In the house next door on the left ( 1875)
• Aquis submersus (1876 ) ( digitized and full text archive in the German text of the first independent edition, Paetel, Berlin 1877)
• Renate (1878 )
• Carsten Curator (1878 )
• Eekenhof (1879 )
• The sons of Senators (1880 )
• The Lord Privy Councillor (1881 )
• Hans and Heinz Kirch ( 1882)
• To chronicle of Grieshuus (1884 )
• John Riew (1885 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• A feast on Haderslevhuus (1885 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• Bötjer Basch (1887 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• A Doppelgänger (1887 ). ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive ) film under the title John Gluckstadt ( Director: Ulf Miehe )
• A Confession ( 1887)
• Sylt novella (1887, fragment)
• The Ghost Rider (1888 ) ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )

Primary literature

Werkausgaben

• All writings. First complete edition, 6 volumes. Braunschweig 1868.
• Collected Writings. 19 volumes. Brunswick from 1877 to 1889.
• Complete Works. New edition, 8 volumes. Braunschweig 1898.
• Works. Edited by Theodore Hertel, 6 volumes. Leipzig; Vienna 1919.
• Complete Works. Edited by Albert Koster, 8 volumes. Leipzig from 1919 to 1920.
• Complete Works. Edited by Peter Goldammer, 4 volumes. Berlin (East), 1956 ( 4th edition. Weimar 1978).
• Complete Works. Edited by Karl Ernst Laage and Dieter Lohmeier, 4 volumes. Frankfurt am Main 1987-1988.

Letter editions

• Theodor Storm, Constanze Storm: correspondence. Edited by Regina Fasold. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-503-09879-8.
• Theodor Storm - Klaus Groth: correspondence. Crit. Output. Ed in conjunction with the Theodor -Storm -Gesellschaft. by Boy Hinrichs. Erich Schmidt, Berlin, 1990, ISBN 3-503-03010-7.
• Theodor Storm - Theodor Fontane: correspondence. Crit. Output. Edited by Gabriele Radecke. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-503-12280-6.

Secondary literature

Periodical writings

• Husum contributions to the Storm Research ( HuB ), Erich Schmidt Verlag Berlin
• Storm - correspondence, ( StBw ) Erich Schmidt Verlag Berlin
• Theodor- Storm -Gesellschaft writings Boyens Publisher Heide
• Storm leaves from the Holy City, Holy City

Biographical representations

• Paul Barz: Theodor Storm. Hikers against time and the world. Biography. Construction Paperback -Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-1618-2.
• Alfred Tuck: Theodor Storm's life and works. As an introduction to the world and heart of the poet. Leipzig 1917.
• Hermann Binder: Theodor Storm. Leipzig 1914.
• Georg Boll Beck: Theodor Storm. A Biography. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-458-14621-0.
• Uwe Carstens: Dear friend Ferdinand. The remarkable friendship between Theodor Storm and Ferdinand Tönnies. Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4762-2.
• Regina Fasold: Theodor Storm. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-10304-8.
• David A. Jackson: Theodor Storm. Poet and democratic humanist. A Biography. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-503-06102-9.
• Karl Ernst Laage: Theodor Storm. Life and work. 8, enlarged and revised edition. Husum 2007, ISBN 978-3-88042-650-4.
• Karl Ernst Laage: An's Lagoon is now flying seagull. In Theodor Storm tracks. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0379-5.
• Jochen Miss Feldt: You gray town by the sea. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24141-1.
• Roger Paulin: Theodor Storm. Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35048-8.
• Paul Archer: Theodor Storm. His life and his poetry. Berlin 1887. (First Storm biography, obsolete)
• Gertrud Storm: Theodor Storm. A picture of his life.. 2 vols Berlin from 1912 to 1913 (Vol. 1: youth; vol 2: manhood )
• Gertrud Storm: My father Theodor Storm. Berlin 1922.
• Hartmut Vinçon: Theodor Storm presented with certificates and self- image documents. 16th edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-50186-4.

Individual studies

• Heinrich Detering: Childhood tracks. Theodor Storm and the end of the romance. Heide 2011.
• Gerd Evers Berg ( ed.): Storm's first great love. Theodor Storm and Bertha of Buchan in poems and documents. Heide 1995.
• Jean Firges: Theodor Storm. Idyll and decay. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2001, ISBN 3-933264-11-1. ( Exemplary series Literature and Philosophy, Vol 09)
• Asteris Koutoulas: Theodor Storm's novella " Hans and Heinz Kirch ". Essay.
• Hildegard Lorenz: variance and invariance. Theodor Storm stories: character constellations and patterns of action. Bonn 1985.
• Hans -Erich Teitge ( compiler ); German State Library (ed.): Theodor Storm bibliography. In 1967.
• Theodor -Storm -Gesellschaft Husum: The Storm manuscripts from the estate of Ernst Storm. With the edition of the " Concepts" to the short story " The Ghost Rider ". Edited Cultural Foundation of the Ministry of the Interior Ministry of the Interior countries Confederation of Schleswig -Holstein, etc.. Cultural Foundation of Countries, Berlin 1999. ( Patrimonial 151)
• Wulf Wülfing: "Air is not an empty dream. " Theodor Fontane and the Berlin air as a metaphor for the political and social climate in Nachmarz Prussia; with special consideration of the correspondence with Theodor Storm in 1853. In: forms of reality capture after 1848 German literature and culture from Nachmarz to the early days in a European perspective.. Vol 1 Edited by Helmut Koopmann and Michael Perraudin under al. by Andrea Bartl. Aisthesis. Bielefeld 2003, pp. 167-188.

Scientific investigations Edition

• Gabriele Radecke: "After all, Please, send me back the MS soon possible because it burns ". To comment function of letter supplements the example of Theodor Fontane's correspondence with Bernhard von Lepel and Theodor Storm. In: Problems of annotating. Contributions of Innsbruck workshops. Edited by Wolfgang Wiesmüller. Innsbruck 2014 ( Innsbruck Contributions to Cultural Studies Germanic series, vol 80 ), pp. 131-146.
• Gabriele Radecke: insert, insert, inclusion. For the function and differentiation of letter and its editorial offerings representation using the example of Theodor Fontane's correspondence with Bernhard von Lepel and Theodor Storm. In: letter edition in the digital age. Edited by Anne Bohnenkamp and Elke Richter. Berlin, Boston ( to editio Supplements, Vol 34), 2013, pp. 165-177.