Albert Emil Curlew

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Adam Emil Brachvogel, from Gazebo 1879
Albert Emil Curlew

Albert Emil Brachvogel (born April 29, 1824 in Breslau , † November 27, 1878 in Berlin ) was a German writer.

Curlew was best known for two works. His five-act tragedy Narcissus (1856) takes over the main character from Diderot's philosophical dialogue, Rameau's nephew, and places him in the vicinity of the French royal court in 1764.

The biographical novel Friedemann Bach , which contributed a lot to the bad reputation of this composer, was widely read well into the 20th century . This novel lacks in his action of any factual basis and is pure fiction, but found a lot of attention and was founded in 1931 by Paul Graener as opera edited and 1941 with Gustaf starring filmed .

Life

Brachvogel's father - a merchant - died in 1830, his mother in 1845. Albert Emil first attended the Magdalenengymnasium in Breslau , then apprenticed to an engraver and engraver and, after his mother's death in Vienna, was not very successful as an actor. He returned to Breslau and worked there again in his learned profession, but also attended lectures at the university, for example on literature and philosophy .

In 1848 he was again unsuccessful in Berlin with his first work Favard or The Love of the Rich . In 1850 he married Julie Hart († 1870) and went with her to Görbersdorf in Silesia , but later had to go back to Berlin for financial reasons, where he worked as a secretary and devoted his free time to writing. In 1856 his tragedy Narcissus premiered at the Berlin Royal Theater with great success . A few other plants failed, however, and Brachvogel moved several times ( Stuttgart , Karlsruhe , Eisenach , Görlitz ).

Between 1858 and 1867 he wrote a few lesser-known novels alongside Friedemann Bach . In 1871 his wife died and he moved to Lichterfelde near Berlin.

Brachvogel was accepted as a Freemason in the Berlin Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröte in 1857 . In 1874 he held the post of deputy secretary of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany .

tomb

He is buried in the Dom-Friedhof II in Berlin-Mitte. His grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

In 1910, Brachvogelstrasse was named after him in Berlin (today's Kreuzberg district ) .

Works (selection)

  • Schubart and his contemporaries. Historical novel , Leipzig 1864 (later also under the title Sturm und Drang. Christian Schubart and his contemporaries).
  • Narciss. A tragedy . Leipzig 1857 (later also in the spelling Narcissus )
  • Friedemann Bach . Berlin 1858 (and numerous new editions)
  • Des great Friedrich adjutant , Berlin 1875 (revised by E. Th. Kauer under the title Colonel von Steuben , the great king adjutant : Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft, Berlin 1920 and more often)
  • Louis the Fourteenth or the Comedy of Life . Historical novel.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Holtorf: The lodges of the Freemasons . Nikol Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 3-930656-58-2 , p. 141
  2. ↑ Brachvogelstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ s. Gartenlaube 1879: "The fate of the poet Schubart, the prisoner of Hohenaperg" - a cultural-historical novel from the beginnings of classical music , Stuttgart 1926
  4. ↑ s. Gazebo 1879: "fantastically decorated life story"
personal data
SURNAME Curlew, Albert Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1878
Place of death Berlin