Eduard von Bauernfeld

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Franz Dobiaschofsky: Portrait of Eduard von Bauernfeld , 1850
In the painting Die Landpartie , the painter Moritz von Schwind records a joint excursion with Eduard von Bauernfeld.

Eduard von Bauernfeld (pseudonyms: Rusticocampius , field ) (born January 13, 1802 in Vienna , † August 9, 1890 in Oberdöbling near Vienna) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Eduard von Bauernfeld attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna. During this time he visited the house of the educator Cajetan Giannatasio del Rio, where Ludwig van Beethoven's nephew Karl stayed from 1816 to 1818. There he made the acquaintance of Beethoven , who later asked him to compose an opera libretto Brutus . However, the project was not implemented. In Vienna studied Bauernfeld 1819-1821 philosophy and then to 1825 law . During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the Vienna fraternity circle .

From September 1, 1826, Bauernfeld worked as a concept intern with the Lower Austrian government, from 1827 he was a concept intern in the district office for the district under the Vienna Woods, and in 1830 he switched to the court chamber as an intern on the recommendation of his friend Karl Enderes . From 1843 he was an official at the lottery directorate .

He was also active as a writer and, as a representative of the Greater German liberal bourgeoisie, criticized the conditions of the Vormärz in 1846 with his comedy Growing up . In 1848 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences and in the same year he was dismissed from civil service. After that, Bauernfeld worked as a freelance writer and eventually became one of the most successful comedy writers in Austria.

Franz Lachner (left), Franz Schubert and Bauernfeld (right) at the Heurigen (sketch by Moritz von Schwind , 1862)

He is considered a master of the conversation piece with Viennese local flavor and became the house poet of the Burgtheater , in which his pieces had around 1,100 performances until 1902. He also wrote political plays and therefore often came into conflict with the censors . His work The Republic of Animals criticized the conditions in Austria at the time of Metternich and can be compared with Animal Farm by George Orwell . In 1882 Bauernfeld was granted honorary citizenship of the City of Vienna, and in 1883 an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna .

Bauernfeld maintained close contacts and friendships with well-known personalities such as Moritz von Schwind , Franz Schubert , Franz von Schober , Ernst von Feuchtersleben , Nikolaus Lenau , Johann Gabriel Seidl and Franz Grillparzer .

Bauernfeld's grave is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Honors and commemorations

In 1890 the Bauernfeldplatz in Vienna- Alsergrund (9th district) and in 1904 in Döbling (19th district) the Bauernfeldgasse were named after him.

In the District Museum Döbling one room to the living years Eduard Bauer field in Döbling and his work recalls.

The Bauernfeld Prize , donated in his will by Bauernfeld , has been awarded since 1894.

Works

Picture from the last years of life
  • 1823 The magnetizer (comedy)
  • 1831 Carelessness out of love
  • 1834 The Last Adventure ( comedy )
  • 1840 Two families (drama)
  • 1840 The siblings of Nuremberg (comedy)
  • 1846 coming of age (comedy)
  • 1848 The Republic of the Animals (fantastic drama)
  • 1852 at home (family scene in 1 act)
  • 1853 in old age (domestic scene in 1 act)
  • 1855 The migratory birds (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1865 Excellenz or: The Backfisch (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1865 women's friendship (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1867 Out of society
  • 1872 From old and new Vienna
  • 1873 Der Alte vom Berge (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1876 The rich heiress (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1878 The Forsaken (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1890 The Hotheads (comedy in 1 act)
  • 1900 Bourgeois and romantic (comedy in 4 acts)
  • The diary (comedy in 1 act)

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Bauernfeld, Eduard von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, pp. 186–188 ( digitized version ).
  • Emil Horner: Bauernfeld. (= Poet and actor; 5). Seemann et al., Leipzig a. a. 1900
  • Emil Horner:  Bauernfeld, Eduard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 243-247.
  • Wilhelm Zentner: Studies on the dramaturgy of Eduard von Bauernfelds. A contribution to research into the more recent comedy. Leipzig 1922 (Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1978, ISBN 3-262-00512-6 )
  • Alphons Maria Amann: The relationship between Eduard von Bauernfeld and Romanticism. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1932
  • Anna Artaker: Eduard von Bauernfeld in the political movement of his time. A contribution to Bauernfeld's biography. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1942
  • Wilhelm Bietak:  Bauernfeld, Eduard von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dolores Hornbach Whelan: Society in Transition. The angel is moulting. The image of women in Eduard von Bauernfeld's comedies. 1830-1870. (= European University Theses; Series 1; 223). Lang, Bern a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-261-03048-8
  • Christine Jaschek: Eduard von Bauernfeld as a literary recipient . Investigations into literary critical utterances of a writer from Vormärz. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1979
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 46-48 (Bauernfeld's memories of Beethoven).

Web links

Wikisource: Eduard von Bauernfeld  - Sources and full texts
Wikiquote: Eduard von Bauernfeld  - Quotes
Commons : Eduard von Bauernfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Holdings in the catalog of the Austrian National Library Vienna
http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00037238
http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00037241

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 41–43.
personal data
SURNAME Bauernfeld, Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian comedy poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1890
Place of death Vienna