Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg
Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg , artist: Alexander von Sternberg , pseudonym : Sylvan (born 10 . Jul / 22. April 1806 greg. On Good Noistfer ( Purdi ), Governorate of Estonia , Russian Empire ; † 24. August 1868 in Dannenwalde , Mecklenburg-Strelitz ), was a German storyteller, poet and painter.
Life
He came from the German-Baltic aristocratic family Ungern-Sternberg and was the author of historical and biographical novels , short stories and ironic fairy tales . He lived in Berlin from 1841 to 1854 and worked there, among other things, as an author for the Kreuzzeitung . Occasionally he worked as a draftsman .
Ungern-Sternberg studied law, philosophy and literary history at the University of Dorpat and in 1830 - after a short stay in Petersburg - moved to Dresden, where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Tieck . In the 1830s Ungern-Sternberg published his texts in several paperbacks, including in Urania. In 1841 he settled in Berlin and associated with Karl Gutzkow , Willibald Alexis , Fanny Lewald , Tiecks and other artists from the Berlin salons. In the revolutionary year of 1848, Ungern-Sternberg was on the side of the conservatives and worked for the Kreuzzeitung newspaper loyal to the king; later he went to the Frankfurt parliament as a rapporteur on behalf of the Russian embassy in Berlin.
He married Karoline Luise von Waldow (1811–1867) in Dresden only after 1850 . He spent the last years of his life with his wife on his Gramzow estate in Fürstenberger Werder , Mecklenburg , which his brother-in-law, the landowner and chamberlain Franz von Waldow, had bequeathed to him. He died at the age of 62 and had been widowed for a year in August 1868 while visiting his brother-in-law on his estate in Dannenwalde .
Works
- The torn. Novella . Stuttgart & Tübingen, 1832. ( digitized version )
- The alchemists . Novella. In: Urania. Paperback for the year 1835. pp. 317–394. ( Digitized version )
- The Breughel brothers. Novella. In: Urania. Paperback for the year 1836. pp. 1–110. ( Digitized version )
- Jena and Leipzig. Novella in two parts. Berlin, 1844. ( digitized version )
- Tutu. Fantastic episodes and poetic excursions. Leipzig, 1846 ( digitized version )
- The royalists. Narration . Bremen, 1848.
- Brown fairy tale. Bremen, 1850.
- Reminder sheets. 6 vols., Berlin, Leipzig, 1855–60.
New editions:
- Scholastics . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 20. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1–102. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Tutu. Fantastic episodes and poetic excursions. FW Hendel-Verlag, Meersburg on Lake Constance 1936
- Brown fairy tale. 1986. ISBN 3-416-01899-0
- The wax candle. Lost fantasies. 1998. ISBN 3-932621-13-1
- Physiology of society in letters from a father to his son. A contribution to Knigge's dealing with people . 1844 in: Fundstücke , 5th ed. Dirck Linck. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2005. ISBN 978-3-932324-70-3
literature
- Anneliese Molsberger: Nobility and nobility sentiment in the time novels of Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg. Werkbund-Druck, Würzburg 1929
- Heinrich Pröhle : Ungern: Peter Alexander, Freiherr v. Ungern-Sternberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 299-302.
- Friedrich Sengle : Biedermeier period. Vol. II. Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1972. About Ungern-Sternberg as “the main representative of the ironic fairy tale in the Biedermeier period” pp. 973–975. ISBN 3-476-00242-X
- Edgar Weil: Alexander von Sternberg. A contribution to the literary and cultural history of the 19th century . Ebering, Berlin 1932. Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1967
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1342-1348 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg in the German Digital Library
- Works by Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg at Zeno.org .
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ungern-Sternberg, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sternberg, Alexander von (stage name); Ungern-Sternberg, Peter Alexander Freiherr von (full name); Sylvan (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German storyteller, poet and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Noistfer (Purdi), Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1868 |
| Place of death | Dannenwalde , Mecklenburg-Strelitz |