Jobsiade
The Jobsiade is a literary work by the Bochum mountain doctor Carl Arnold Kortum (1745-1824).
As a comic heroic poem , it is the three-part biography of Hieronymus Jobs, a lost theology student ; at the same time a satire on German philistinism and student life.
The protagonist fails in all situations. This descending line of life was in contradiction to the general emotional state of the time, which was characterized by new beginnings and upswing.
satire
Kortum wrote the contemporary satire in Knittelversen in the years 1783 to 1784. The first edition of the work appeared in 1784 under the title: Life, Meyings and Thats of Hieronymus Jobs the candidate, and how he once gained much fame as a night watchman Sulzburg died .
In 1799 a revised version, expanded by two parts, appeared under the overall title The Jobsiade. A comic heroic poem in three parts , printed by the Mallinckrodt brothers on behalf of the Dortmund bookshop .
In the year of Kortum's death, the fourth edition of the Jobsiade appeared with a frontispiece by the illustrator Johann Heinrich Ramberg .
The name of Kortum, however, remained unknown until 1854 in the seventh edition of the publisher FA Brockhaus instead of “DCAK” the full name “Dr. Carl Arnold Kortum “was called.
Edits
The Jobsiade inspired Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) in 1872 for the pictures for the Jobsiade . Johann Peter Hasenclever (1810–1853) had previously painted 20 scenes of the play. One version of the work Jobs in the exam was acquired by Ludwig I , another was shown in the exhibition at the Düsseldorf Gallery in New York.
In 1931 Wolfgang Jacobi composed a school opera in 34 numbers Die Jobsiade for school performances. The well donated by the Deutsche Bank in front of the regional court in Bochum recreates an exam scene of the candidate Jobs: "There was a general shaking of the head about this answer of the candidate Job."
Based on the text by Ludwig Andersen, Joseph Haas created the comic opera Die Hochzeit des Jobs , in which Hieronimus Jobs appears as a lawyer instead of as a theologian (first performance in 1944).
The Jobsiade has been translated several times. A Dutch translation by Ard Posthuma was published in 2007.
Self-published in 1806 "in the taste of the Jobsiade" by GL Martin Spitzbauch, a satyrical-comic novel in verse .
literature
- Margret Axer: The Jobsiade. Genre, substance and form . Bonn 1950.
- Yannik Behme: Kortum: The Jobsiade . In: Literature - Pictures. Johann Heinrich Ramberg as a book illustrator in Goethe's time. Edited by Alexander Košenina. Hannover 2013, pp. 234–235.
- Hans Dickerhoff: The Origin of the Jobsiade . Munster 1908.
- Anton Fahne : Hasenclever's illustrations for the Jobsiade . Bonn 1852.
- Manfred Keller: Carl Arnold Kortum. The Bochum poet doctor and his jobsiade . Reicheneck 1995.
- Karl Wiechert: How Kortums Jobsiade became a Buschiade . In: Wilhelm-Busch-Jahrbuch 34 (1968), pp. 29-40.
Individual evidence
- ↑ approximate table of contents on legendhaftes-ruhrgebiet.de
- ↑ Pictures for the Jobsiade after paintings and drawings by JP Hasenclever, engraved by F. Th. Janssen
