August Friedrich Ernst Langbein

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August Friedrich Ernst Langbein
Langbein's signature 1815

August Friedrich Ernst Langbein (born September 6, 1757 in Radeberg , † January 2, 1835 in Berlin ) was a German poet and novelist.

Life

August Ernst Friedrich Langbein, son of the Radeberg bailiff Ernst Ludwig Langbein (1734-1824, from 1787 judicial officer zu Radeberg) and grandson of the Radeberg bailiff Johann Balthasar Langbein, was the oldest of 15 children. He was born in Klippenstein Castle and grew up mostly in his father's " Langbeinschen Garden " next to the castle. He was tutored by the family tutor of the family, the rector of the Radeberg city school Johann Michael Klemm, who had also been tutor of Karl Gottlob Sonntag , who later became the senior pastor of Riga and general superintendent of Livonia .

As a 12-year-old Langbein wrote his first verses. From 1772, when he was 15, he received his training at the Princely School in Meissen , which he graduated with honors in 1777. In recognition of this, he was allowed to write the "final poem". From 1777 he studied law in Leipzig and in 1781 took up a position as " Vice-Actuarius " in Großenhain . In the absence of career advancement opportunities there, he went to Dresden , where he initially worked for 2 years as a freelance lawyer , then as administrator and chancellery in the secret archive. In 1780 his first text was published in the magazine "Poetic Flower Harvesting for the Year 1780". In 1800 he married Johanna Eleonore Reichel, daughter of a master tanner from Tharandt .

After Langbein made his debut as a student in Gottfried August Bürger's “ Musenalmanach ” and was able to celebrate his first modest successes as a writer, he gave up the unpopular chancellery position and settled in Berlin in 1800 as a freelance writer. This led to the family break with his father Ernst Ludwig Langbein, judicial clerk at Radeberg, who had planned a promising career as clerk at Radeberg for his son.

Langbein developed astonishing productivity with novels and short stories, but ultimately couldn't make a living from it. Charlotte von Kalb , who greatly appreciated Langbein's novel The Gray King , made Princess Marianne of Prussia aware of the poet. It is probably thanks to their influence that Langbein was appointed censor for scholarly writings in 1820. Langbein was a relatively mild censor who repeatedly got into conflict with his superiors. The fact that he is said to have deleted his own works from the catalogs of the lending libraries probably belongs to the area of ​​anecdote. However, he later denied some of his youthful works and finally defused several of his early works that he found too offensive or too critical of the nobility and authorities.

August Friedrich Ernst Langbein died in poor circumstances in Berlin in early 1835 at the age of 77. He was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery . The tomb no longer exists today.

Honors

Memorial plaque for AFE Langbein at Klippenstein Castle Radeberg

A group of citizens from Langbein's birthplace, Radeberg, carried out a private collection of money in 1867 with the aim of honoring Langbein and, on November 20, 1867, decided to put a memorial plaque at his birthplace, Schloss Klippenstein Radeberg. This plaque, manufactured by the A. Geißler KG Radeberg glass mold factory and iron foundry in Gusseisen, with the inscription "This is where the poet August Friedrich Ernst Langbein was born on September 6, 1757" is on September 6, 1868, Langbein's 111th birthday, directly above the southern castle portal was installed and inaugurated. In the 1930s the memorial plaque was moved about 10 m to the left on the south-west outer wall of the outer bailey. The "Langbeinstrasse" built in 1901 in Radeberg was named in honor of the poet Langbein, his father and his grandfather. The city council of Radeberg still administered the "Langbein Foundation" in 1885. A "long-legged room" was set up in Klippenstein Castle.

criticism

Langbein became popular with humorous novels such as Thomas Kellerwurm or Magister Zimpels Brautfahrt . In his poetry, especially in his ballads, there is sometimes a tendency towards frivolity, especially Langbein serves the joking genre. Alongside Friedrich Gustav Schilling (1766-1839), August Lafontaine , Friedrich Laun (di Friedrich August Schulze , 1770-1849) and Heinrich Clauren, he was one of the most popular entertainment writers in the first third of the 19th century. Many of his works were illustrated by the Hanoverian court painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg . Langbein was so famous and sought after that even some contemporaries published under his name. Langbein's humorous story Die Fledermaus (from Feyerabende ) was made into a comedy by Karl Friedrich Hensler .

Works

  • Two comedies . 1788
  • Poems . Leipzig 1788
  • Texts in the Göttingen "Muses-Almanach" . 1790
  • Rascals . 2 vols., Dresden a. Leipzig 1791–92
  • Fey evenings . 3 vol., Leipzig 1793–98
  • Ball songs . 1798
  • Talismans against the long while . 3 vol., Berlin 1801-1802
  • The gray king. A novant novel . Berlin 1803
  • Thomas Kellerwurm . Berlin 1806
  • The nerd and his sons. Novel . Berlin 1809
  • Newer poems . 2 vol., Tübingen 1812-23
  • All the writings. Complete verb. u. presumably original edition last hand . 31 vol., Stuttgart 1835–37

(Some of Langbein's letters can be found in: Letters from and to Gottfried August Bürger. Ed. By Adolf Strodtmann. 4 vol., Berlin, 1874.)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radeberger Chronik 1550-1839 . Handwritten manuscript. Archive no. 00003476. Museum Schloss Klippenstein Radeberg
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 101.
  3. ↑ Radeberger Chronik 1840–1904 . Handwritten manuscript. Archive no. 00003477. Museum Schloss Klippenstein Radeberg
  4. ^ Address book for the city of Radeberg 1885
  5. ^ Yannik Behme: Art. Langbein: Magister Zimpels Ehechronik ; Langbein: motherly love and heroism ; Langbein: The trip to the Löwenburg ; Long Legs: The Serpent Queen ; Langbein: The magic table . In: Literature - Pictures. Johann Heinrich Ramberg as a book illustrator in Goethe's time. Edited by Alexander Košenina. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2013, pp. 244–253. ISBN 978-3-86525-339-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Langbein, August Friedrich Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Radeberg
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1835
Place of death Berlin