Wilhelm Hauff

Wilhelm Hauff ( born November 29, 1802 in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, † November 18, 1827 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a German Romantic writer. He was a major representative of the Swabian school of poetry.

• 5.1 Reading issues

• 7.1 Hauff's works online

Life

Hauff's father August Friederich Hauff was governmental Sekretarius in Stuttgart. When he died in 1809, his mother moved with her four children (along with Wilhelm Hermann, born in 1800, Marie, born 1806, Sophie, born 1807) with her father Karl Friederich Alsatians to Tübingen.

Hauff attended from 1809 to 1816 the Schola Anatolica, the former Tübingen Latin school, and after passing the exam country from 1817 the convent school in Blaubeuren. He studied from 1820 to 1824 as a fellow of the Evangelical congregation at the University of Tübingen Tübingen theology and became the Dr. phil. doctorate. He was a member of the Tübingen fraternity Germania. From this time, some printed in Kommersbuch texts of student songs originate.

Hauff worked from 1824 to 1826 in Stuttgart at Ernst Eugen Freiherr von Hügel as a tutor and then traveled through France and northern Germany. In 1825, he joined with the satirical show The Man in the Moon, in which he imitates the style and manner of trivial author Heinrich Clauren and its narrative mimili virtuoso and ridicule are. Two years later he dropped the controvers - sermon on H. Clauren and the Man in the Moon open the literary Bluff.

In January 1827 he became editor of the Cotta morning sheet for formed articles. In 1827 he married his cousin Luise Hauff (* January 6, 1806, † 30 July 1867) that him on 10 November of the same year the daughter Wilhelmine († January 2, 1845 ) gave birth.

Hauff died a week later as a result of typhoid disease which he had contracted during a trip through the Tyrol, where he wanted to collect material for a planned book on Andreas Hofer. His grave is located on the Hoppenlaufriedhof.

To commemorate the Hauff Wilhelm -Hauff - Prize was instituted to promote children 's literature.

Works

Wilhelm Hauff's short literary creative period began in 1825 with the publication of several short stories ( memoirs of Satan, Othello ) and his first fairy tale almanac.

Lichtenstein ( 1826), a historical novel of romance, until the 20th century next to Hauff's fairy tale was his most famous work. Duke Wilhelm of Urach, a member of a collateral branch of the ruling House of Württemberg, settled stimulated by the novel, to acquire the old forester's house near the site of the former castle Alt- Lichtenstein and early 1840s in the grounds one of the former knight's castle, inspired new Castle, to make up existing today Lichtenstein Castle, build. The ruined remains of the late 14th century ruined castle located just a few hundred meters away.

Also, an opera, plays and dramatizations for the silhouette theater contributed to the popularization of the novel.

The Germanists Gabriele von Glasenapp and Wolf -Daniel Hartwich pointed out that Hauff in his stories as Jud Süss, Mittheilungen from the memoirs of Satan and Abner the Jew who has seen nothing by drawings of the character as the physiognomy of his characters also anti-Jewish stereotypes and clichés of his time reproduce.

Fairy tales and legends

Hauff's fairy tales fall into the late romantic literature phase according to the strict censorship provisions of the Carlsbad Decrees in 1819. The first band around the frame narrative The caravan contains known fairy tales such as Caliph Stork and Little Muck. The second band around the sheikh of Alessandria and his slaves leaving the pure oriental action space; Dwarf nose and two of Wilhelm Grimm fairytale acquired ( Snow White and Rose Roth and The Feast of the Underground, the latter is not in the Grimm fairy tales collection ) are in the European fairy tale tradition. His third volume, The Haunted Castle, rather treated Share substances as a fairy tale; the Black Forest Sage The cold heart is the most famous of these legends.

• Fairytale Almanac for the year 1826 for sons and daughters of the educated classes (1825 ) Tale as almanac (Introduction)
• The Caravan ( framing story )
• The Story of Caliph Stork
• The story of the ghost ship
• The story of the severed hand
• Salvation Fatmes
• The Story of Little Muck
• The Tale of the false prince

• The Sheik of Alexandria and his slaves ( framing story )
• The Zwergnase
• Abner, the Jew who has seen nothing
• The poor Stephan (from Gustav Adolf Scholl )
• The baked head ( by James Justinian Morier )
• The monkey as a human being ( The Young Englishman)
• The Feast of the Underground ( by Wilhelm Grimm)
• Snow White and Rose Red ( by Wilhelm Grimm)
• The story Almansor

• The Haunted Castle ( framing story )
• The legend of the florin [on 2]
• The Cold Heart ( in two parts in the frame narrative inserted )
• Said's fate
• The Cave of Steenfoll - A schottländische Sage

Novel

• Lichtenstein (3 volumes, 1826)

Satires

• The man in the moon or the train of the heart is the fate of voice ( published in 1825 under the name of the popular H. Clauren )
• Mittheilungen from the memoirs of Satan (1825/1826, 2 volumes)
• Controvers - sermon on H. Clauren and the Man in the Moon, held in front of the German public in the Autumn Fair 1827

Stories

• Othello ( 1826)
• The singer (1826 )
• The beggar from the Pont des Arts (1827 )
• Jud Suss (1827 )
• The last Knights from Malbork
• The image of the Emperor
• Fantasies in Ratskeller, an autumn gift for friends of the wine (1827 ) [on 4]
• The books and the reading world
• Free hours at the window
• The aesthetic Club
• A couple hours of travel

Students and other songs

• For the last time welcome (1823 )
• If the cups revolve happy (1823 ) [on 5]
• Brothers, raises the blade (1824 ) [on 6]
• Loyalty Love ( 1824) [on 7]
• Where a fervor that binds the heart (1824 ) [on 8]
• Reiter's morning song ( dawn, shine for me early death? ) After a Swabian folk song with the turned- quoted lines "Yesterday, today shot on proud horses, through the chest, tomorrow in the cold grave ."

Opera

Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in 1964, the libretto for Hans Werner Henze's comic opera, The Young Lord based on the parable The monkey as a human being ( The Young Englishman).

Films

Many films are based on Hauff's fairy tale - but there were some of his other substances implemented: