Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder ( born July 13, 1773 in Berlin, † February 13, 1798 in Berlin), lawyer, was as a writer co-founder of German Romanticism.

Life

Brought up in the spirit of the late Enlightenment rationalism, the son of the first mayor visited the Berlin Justice Friedrichwerdersche high school, where he became close friends with Ludwig Tieck 1786-1792. The following year the musically talented Wackenroder took on her father's wish to study law. Besides, he heard but still cultural and historical lectures and worked intensively with the art of the Italian Renaissance.

During a summer trip to Bamberg, Nuremberg and Pommersfelden he learned the landscape of southern Germany and the art of the " German European" Albrecht Dürer know about which he enthusiastically expressed in letters, which can already recognize Wackenroder position to the early Romantic period. Under such impressions created 1795/1796 the outpourings of an art-loving friar, a collection of art-theoretical treatises and partly fictional biographies in which the example of Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer is advertised among other things, a sacred reception of the painting, as it virtue to exert a similar contemplative effect as worship or prayer. Because as an expression of free creativity build the art " a new altar in honor of God"; at the same time they could force their " divine assistance " heal the desperate introspection on the part of the audience. In the final, autobiographical story Joseph Berglinger Wackenroder breaks of course with the previously designed image of a still powerful influential generation of artists and addresses in return, the existential crises of the modern musician who fail the sacred ideals of ordinary life needs. With this double intention anonymously published 1796 in Berlin outpourings had sustained on the discussion in the philosophy and literature of the Romantic problem of artistic identity and meaning. The anti-Enlightenment gesture with which Wackenroder turned away behind the mask of the fictional friar of the increasingly utilitarian construction culture of his time, influenced beyond the painting of the Nazarene.

In addition to Ludwig Tieck Wackenroder regarded as the founder of Romantic music aesthetics; both authors believed in a transcendent character of the music in their ecstatic moments of man to rise above himself. In the literature of their designs have often been interpreted as a theory of absolute music; as Alexandra Kertz - Welzel has exhibited Wackenroder and Tieck, however, were at least as much interested in the emotional and sensory experience of music.

In 1797 Wackenroder returned as a trainee to Berlin. Probably in the same year written down together with Tieck fantasies about the art appeared a year after the death of Wackenroder, who died in 1798 of typhoid fever.

Works

Wackenroder has left only a small oeuvre; It primarily concerns theorizing headings:

  • Outpourings of an art-loving friar, Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin in 1797, but already released in late 1796, some essays Ludwig Tieck is written. ( Digitized and full text archive in the German text, digitized at Google Books)
  • Fantasies on Art for Friends of the Art, ed. v. Ludwig Tieck (Hamburg, bey Friedrich Perthes, 1799); also with texts by Tieck ( digitized )
  • Fantasies about the art of an art- loving Friar, ed. v. Ludwig Tieck (Berlin 1814); by Tieck's testimony to this issue only texts of Wackenroder included ( digitized )

At » Franz Sternbalds walks " (1798 ed. Tieck ) Wackenroder was probably involved as an inspiration, but the development of the novel took Tieck well alone before.

From Wackenroder several philological works, six trip reports and numerous letters also have survived.

Werkausgabe

  • Silvio Vietta, Richard Littlejohns ( Eds.): Complete works and letters. Historical- Critical Edition. 2 vols. Heidelberg 1991

As CD

  • . Pentecostal travel in 1793 Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenrode and Ludwig Tieck, presented by Michael Thumser, spoken by Hans- Jürgen Schatz, 2 CD; Auricula Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-93196-106-0
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