Albert Lindner

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Albert Lindner

Albert Christian Lindner (born April 24, 1831 in Ober-Neusulza in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , † February 4, 1888 in Dalldorf near Berlin ) was a German playwright . Despite the Schiller Prize awarded to him at a young age for his tragedy Brutus and Collatinus , most of his works were unsuccessful or only marginally successful.

Life

The son of a salt miner and a farmer's wife grew up in modest circumstances, but was able to attend high school in Weimar . His parents wanted him to become a pastor, but at the universities of Jena and Berlin he turned to philology and aesthetics . In Jena he was a member of the Corps Thuringia . Initially working as a private tutor in Pomerania from 1857, he received his doctorate in 1860 and then worked as a teacher in Prenzlau and Spremberg , before becoming a high school teacher in Rudolstadt in 1864 .

In Rudolstadt he finished his tragedy Brutus and Collatinus , which he had started in Pomerania and which only attracted greater attention in 1866 when the Schiller Prize donated by Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was awarded .

Convinced of his writing activities, Lindner moved to Berlin some time later, despite advising against friends and family. There, however, he did not find the acceptance and recognition he had hoped for, and his other publications were not crowned with success either, so that he had to secure his living as a teacher on a low wage. After almost 7 years, he married his fiancée in Rudolstadt during this time.

Lindner was given the position of librarian of the Reichstag in 1872, but proved to be no match for it. As part of an institute expansion, it was suggested that he should be released on April 1, 1875.

In the following years he suffered from the unsuccessfulness of his works. Due to the family's extremely poor income situation, Lindner worked temporarily as a contract writer and journalist. At the turn of the year 1885/1886 he was diagnosed with a mental disorder, due to which he was admitted to the mental hospital in Dalldorf a little later as an incurably ill person, where he died in 1888. He was buried in Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II , the grave has not been preserved.

After his consignment to Adlldorf and also after his death, some of his works experienced brief success.

Works (excerpt)

  • Dante Alighieri. 1855.
  • Cothurnus Sophocleus. Dissertation. A. Vogel, Berlin 1860.
  • William Shakespeare. 1864.
  • Brutus and Collatinus. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1866.
  • Stauf and Welf. Hermann Costenoble, Jena 1867.
  • Catherine the Second. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1868.
  • The Corps Thuringia. In addition to an appendix: The Duchy of Lichtenhain. 1870.
  • The Blood Wedding, or, The Bartholomew Night. 1871. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1890.
  • Marino Falieri. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1875.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ German writers from corporate student circles: Albert Lindner . In: Academische Monatshefte , 5, 1889/90, pp. 66–70.
  2. ^ According to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , the disorder was recognized as early as December 1885; Eugen Reichel dated it to January 1886.
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindner, Christian Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and winner of the Schiller Prize
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Ober-Neusulza , Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1888
Place of death Dalldorf near Berlin