August Lewald
Johann Karl August Lewald (born October 14, 1792 in Koenigsberg ; † March 10, 1871 in Baden-Baden ) was a German writer and publicist . He also published under the pseudonyms Hans Kindermann , Kurt Walder and Tobias Sonnabend .
Life
Lewald was to become a businessman, according to his parents' wishes. At the age of 21 Lewald came to the tsarist headquarters as a secretary, was active in the staff during the liberation wars from 1813 to 1815 and moved to France with the troops of General von Rosen . From 1818 he worked as an actor on the stages of Brno and Munich . In 1824 Lewald was hired as director of the Nuremberg theater. Further stations were Bamberg, Hamburg, Paris and Munich. From there, Lewald was brought to Stuttgart in 1834, where he settled down and founded the magazine Europa in 1835 , which he published until 1846. He had been friends with Heinrich Heine since 1827, as well as with Karl von Holtei and Karl Schall , whom he had met in Breslau after 1815.
In Stuttgart he frequented the two actors Moritz Rott and Karl Seydelmann as well as Karl Gutzkow , who later became an employee of Europa . Lewald tried to reform the German theater . From 1849 to 1862 he was a director at the Stuttgart court theater. In 1852 he converted in Munich from the Protestant Church, to which he had belonged since his conversion from Judaism to Christianity in 1812, to the Roman Catholic Church .
His last works are strongly influenced by ultramontanism , his theater novel (1841) has autobiographical traits. Lewald's autobiographical writings are important source works for understanding theater, political, cultural and literary life in Biedermeier and Vormärz .
August Lewald was a cousin of Fanny Lewald 's father .
Works
- The Prima Donna in Hamburg. Sung about by the poet Tobias Sonnabend , 2 booklets. 1830
- Gorgona. Pictures from the French Middle Ages , 1833
- Panorama of Munich , 1835
- General theater review , 1835–1837
- Europe. Chronicle of the Educated World , 1835–1846
- Watercolors from life , 4 vols., 1836/37
- New watercolors from life , 2 vol., 1840
- From the life of Frederick the Great Part 1: Katte. 2nd part: Rheinsberg. Stuttgart 1840 + 1841. 2 vol.
- Theater novel , 5 vols., 1841
- Collected writings , 12 vols., 1844/45 (also under the title Ein Menschenleben )
literature
- Lewald, August. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 356-381.
Web links
- Literature by and about August Lewald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about August Lewald in the German Digital Library
- Rolf Selbmann: Lewald, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 408 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Lewald's manuscripts and letters in libraries and archives
- Obituary by Karl Gutzkow for August Lewald 1871
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the personal lexicon of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society ( memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewald, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lewald, Johann Karl August (full name); Kindermann, Hans (pseudonym); Walder, Kurt (pseudonym); Saturday, Tobias (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1871 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |