Bernhard von Lepel

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Bernhard von Lepel, chalk drawing by EHGrünwald

Georg Friedrich Gustav Bernhard von Lepel (* 27. May 1818 in Meppen , † 17th May 1885 in Prenzlau ) was a Prussian officer ( Major a. D. ) and writers .

family

His parents came from Western Pomerania - the von Lepel family . His father, the Hanoverian Lieutenant Colonel Adolf von Lepel (1783–1847), was the brother of the Prussian Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Lepel (1774–1840), who was the adjutant of Prince Heinrich in Rome . His mother Sophie (1796–1823), b. von Bilow , came from Grischow . He lost his mother at an early age and in 1827 made a trip to Rome with his father. He fled his parents' house several times. In 1846 he traveled to Rome and Sicily. Bernhard von Lepel married his cousin Hedwig von Lepel (1827–1893) in Gützkow in 1847 , the daughter of the Prussian captain and member of the manor Franz Heinrich Erich von Lepel (1803–1877) on Wieck (Gützkow) and Mathilde, daughter of the lawyer Johann Christoph Rodbertus . The marriage ended in divorce in 1873. From this marriage came three sons, two of whom were lords of Wieck-Gützkow, Franz (1851–1906) from 1877 to 1906 and Heinrich from 1906 to 1911. In his second marriage, Bernhard married Anna von Heydebreck (1834–1899) in 1873 .

Education and career

Bellevue Palace near Köpenick

At 18 he joined the Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 . As an officer he took part in the Danish campaign in 1848 and ended his active military career that same year. Lived as a private citizen until 1873 in the inherited Bellevue castle near Köpenick . He then went back to military service with the Provincial Invalid Company in Prenzlau as chief and captain. Here he also joined the Masonic Lodge To Truth .

As a member of the Berlin literary society Tunnel over the Spree - his poet name there was Schenckendorf - he introduced his lifelong friend Theodor Fontane there. Both made some trips together; Fontane wrote his report Beyond the Tweed - Pictures and Letters from Scotland , which he dedicated by Lepel on the trip to Scotland . He often accompanied Fontane on his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg .

Fontane judges him in From Twenty to Thirty : “He was a real humorist, of that finest kind, which is mostly not understood at all or perhaps even misunderstood. Apart from the fact that this misunderstood humor often created direct annoyance for him, he also felt at the same time a serious and yet again comical artist's grief that his most brilliant social side was only recognized exceptionally and that I was the one always tasted these fine things with the most grateful tongue: that really won my heart. He collected stories for me, first to please me and then immediately afterwards to please yourself, a joy about my joy. 'I love to see you laugh', I heard him say a hundred times. "

Fontane later expressed himself more critically about his friend: “[...] he was always wrapped in an absolutely crooked manner and worked for the“ Lodge ”. He may have earned a monument there, but unfortunately not otherwise. And yet he was wealthy and had beautiful gifts from God. But as the English say, 'his controlling apparatus did not work properly'. "(Letter to Mathilde von Rohr , 23 May 1885)

Works

Seals

Letters

  • Forty years - Bernhard von Lepel to Theodor Fontane. Letters from 1843–1883 . Edited by Eva A. von Arnim , Berlin (Friedrich Fontane) 1910.
  • Theodor Fontane and Bernhard von Lepel - A friendship correspondence . Edited by Julius Petersen. 2 vols. Munich: Beck 1940.
  • Theodor Fontane - Bernhard von Lepel. The correspondence. Critical edition . Edited by Gabriele Radecke . Berlin: de Gruyter 2006 ( writings of the Theodor Fontane Society , Vol. 5.1 and 5.2).

literature

  • Franz Brümmer :  Lepel, Bernhard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 658 f.
  • Gerhard Hay:  Lepel, Bernhard von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 302 ( digitized version ).
  • Gabriele Radecke: Theodor Fontane's literary correspondence with Wilhelm Wolfsohn and Bernhard von Lepel. In: Theodor Fontane and Wilhelm Wolfsohn - An intercultural relationship. Letters, documents, reflections. Edited by Hanna Delf von Wolzüge and Itta Shedletzky. Tübingen 2006, pp. 373-388.
  • Gabriele Radecke: Theodor Fontane and Bernhard von Lepel: A literary working discussion in letters. With a birthday greeting for Theodor Storm on September 14, 1853. In: Storm-Blätter from Heiligenstadt 12 (2006), pp. 56–71.
  • Gabriele Radecke: "Finally the request to send the MS back to me as soon as possible because it is on fire". On the comment function of letter enclosures using Theodor Fontane's correspondence with Bernhard von Lepel and Theodor Storm as an example. In: Problems of Commenting. Contribution to a workshop in Innsbruck. Edited by Wolfgang Wiesmüller. Innsbruck 2014 (Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies Germanistic series, vol. 80), pp. 131–146.
  • Gabriele Radecke: supplement, insert, inclusion. On the function and differentiation of letter additions and their editorial representation using the example of Theodor Fontane's correspondence with Bernhard von Lepel and Theodor Storm. In: Letter edition in the digital age. Edited by Anne Bohnenkamp and Elke Richter. Berlin, Boston 2013 (supplements to editio, vol. 34), pp. 165–177.
  • Ingo Schwarz: Alexander von Humboldt and Bernhard von Lepel. Notes on a letter from Alexander von Humboldt to Bernhard von Lepel. In: Mitteilungen der Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft 47 (2014), pp. 69–72.
  • Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch des Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8

Web links

Commons : Bernhard von Lepel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt and Bernhard von Lepel - Theodor Fontane Society eV
personal data
SURNAME Lepel, Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1885
Place of death Prenzlau , Germany