Ignaz Franz Castelli
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Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (born March 6, 1781 in Vienna ; † February 5, 1862 there ) was an Austrian poet and playwright . The order of his first names varies in literature. He also published under the pseudonyms brother Fatalis , Hohler , Kosmas , cosmos , Rosenfeld , CA silence .
Life
Castelli studied law , but soon devoted himself to literary work. With his war song for the Austrian army , which was distributed in large numbers to the Austrian soldiers, he was one of the first patriotic poets of the wars of liberation . By sending him to Hungary, the Austrian government brought him to safety from the pursuit of the French.
From 1811 to 1814 Castelli was court theater poet at the Vienna Kärntnertortheater . Nothing of his 199 comedies has survived on stage , but his Singspiel libretti Die Schweizer Familie (1809) for Joseph Weigl and The Conspirators , composed by Franz Schubert , Georg Abraham Schneider and Franz de Paula Roser , achieved great popularity. Weigl and Schubert's operas have also been performed again in the present.
As the editor and employee of various periodicals in Vienna and in German-speaking countries, he contributed significantly to this (in partly pseudonymous and anonymous reports with author names such as "Brother Fatalis", "Kosmas", "Rosenfeld", "CA Stille" and "Höhler") to convey a specific image of Vienna. The best is likely to be his poems in Lower Austrian dialect (Vienna, 1828), with which he inspired Austrian dialect poetry ( Johann Gabriel Seidl , Franz Stelzhamer , Carl Adam Kaltenbrunner ). In 1819 he founded the Ludlamshöhle literary society . He had contact with numerous famous writers and artists of his time and was a. a. friends with Moritz Gottlieb Saphir and Antonio Salieri .
His conflict-shy, peaceful temperament, which earned him great popularity with writer friends and colleagues and just as popular with the public, is reflected in his memoirs, which have been reprinted many times under the title From the life of a Viennese Phäaken and Schiller's ironic word about the "Phäakenstadt" , coined on Vienna, as a city of well-being.
Ludwig van Beethoven , with whom he attended the farewell dinner for the publisher Maurice Schlesinger on September 26, 1825 , also belonged to his circle of friends .
In 1846 he was a co-founder of the Lower Austrian Association against the Abuse of Animals in Vienna , which still exists today as the Vienna Animal Welfare Association .
Ignaz Franz Castelli died on February 5, 1862 at the age of 81 in Vienna. His grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gr. 0, R 1, No. 18).
In 1874 the Castelligasse in Vienna- Margareten (5th district) was named after him.
Works (selection)
- The Swiss Family , 1809 (Singspiel)
- New Wehrmanns-Lieder , 1813
- Aubry's Hound , 1816 (drama)
- The Orphan and the Murderer , 1819 (drama)
- 100 Fables in Four Verses , 1822
- The Husband as Lover or the Lover as Husband , 1823 (comedy)
- The Conspirators , 1823 (Singspiel)
- Poems in Lower Austrian dialect , 1828
- Viennese Life Pictures (derbhumoristic sketch poem) , 1828
- One for the other , 1830 (comedy)
- Uniform and dressing gown , 1831 (comedy)
- The partition , 1833 (comedy)
- Memoirs of my Life , 4 volumes, 1861
- Saint Martin
- From the life of a Viennese Phäaken 1781-1862. The memoirs of I. F. Castelli, re-edited by Adolf Saager (memoir library, IV. Series, eighth volume). Verlag von Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912 ( digitized 2nd edition in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Karl Weiß : Castelli, Ignaz Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 63 f.
- Gustav Gugitz: Castelli, Vinzenz Ignaz Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 172 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Castelli, Ignaz Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 303-307 ( digitized version ).
- Ignaz Franz Castelli. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 138. (with wrong date of birth)
- Barbara Boisits: Castelli, Ignaz Franz. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Friedrich Biermann: Castelli as a time poet. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1927
- Barbara Tumfart: Ignaz Franz Castelli as translator of French plays. A contribution to the Austrian translation system in the 19th century. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1996
- Till Gerrit Waidelich: "He should open his mouth", Schubert in the "Diary from Vienna" of the Dresden "Abend-Zeitung" by Ignaz Franz Castelli . In: Schubert through the glasses 18 (1997), pp. 25-40.
- Till Gerrit Waidelich: The conspirators, "composed for nothing"? Ignaz Franz Castelli's libretto adaptation of the Lysistrata, set to music by Franz Schubert and Georg Abraham Schneider . In: Schubert yearbook . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1996, pp. 41-60. ISSN 1611-6291
- Till Gerrit Waidelich: "... imitée d'Aristophane". The Lisistrata by Hoffman and Solié (1802) as a link to the conspirators of Castelli and Schubert with an outlook on the reception of the subject in music theater (part 1). In: Schubert: Perspectives . 9, 2010, pp. 216-228.
Web links
- Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna
- Literature by and about Ignaz Franz Castelli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ignaz Franz Castelli in the German Digital Library
- Works by Ignaz Franz Castelli at Zeno.org .
- Works by Ignaz Franz Castelli in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Entry on Ignaz Franz Castelli in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Ignaz Franz Castelli in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Entry about Ignaz Franz Castelli ( memento from July 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. TG Waidelich: "He should open his mouth", Schubert in the "Diary from Vienna" of the Dresden "Abend-Zeitung" by Ignaz Franz Castelli . In: Schubert through the glasses 18 (1997), pp. 25-40.
- ↑ Birgit Scholz: Biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 to 1862). Zs LiTheS of the University of Graz, German Institute, 2008, on the Internet biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 to 1862) and biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (PDF) accessed on June 4, 2015
- ↑ From the life of a Viennese Phäaken 1781-1862. The IF Castelli memoirs . Reissued by Adolf Saager, 2nd edition, Verlag Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1927. Made available online and for download in facsimile from the Library of the University of Toronto, Ignaz Franz Castelli, accessed on July 4th 2014. In this edition, the text of the original edition from 1861 has been rearranged chronologically with abbreviations of the irrelevant and some repetitions, cf. Saager's introduction, p. 20.
- ↑ In Schiller's distich “Danube in **” Vienna is concealed: The people of the Phaiacs live around me with a shining eye: / It's always Sunday, the tables are always turning on the stove (quoted from the complete edition, 1st volume, Zahme Xenien )
- ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 181-183.
- ↑ viennatouristguide.at
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Castelli, Ignaz Franz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castelli, Ignaz Vinzenz Franz (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet and playwright |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1781 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1862 |
Place of death | Vienna |