Ernst Ortlepp

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Memorial plaque at the school gate cemetery
Schiller songs , collected by Ernst Ortlepp, 1839

Ernst Ortlepp (born August 1, 1800 in Droyßig ; † June 14, 1864 at Schulpforte ) was a German poet of the Vormärz .

Life

Ortlepp was born as the son of a Protestant pastor . From the age of 12 to 19 he was taught at the state school in Schulpforte, after which he studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig . In 1824 he finished his studies without a degree. He then lived for a time as a " privateer " with his father in Schkölen .

In the 1830s Ortlepp went to Leipzig again, where he was able to develop a reputation as a politically committed poet. The Poland songs were one of his most important works . At that time he also made the acquaintance of Heinrich Laube and Richard Wagner ( he had met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a few years earlier). Ortlepp's critical lines in Fieschi prompted Metternich to have this poem banned. In 1836 Ortlepp fell out of favor and had to turn his back on the city.

In the period between 1837 and 1853 he stayed in Württemberg . At that time he lived mainly from his work as a publisher and translator. Although he evaluates the work quite critically, his complete translation of Shakespeare's sonnets appeared in 1840 , in which, however, he claims to borrow from the translations of Karl Richter and Gottlob Regis . In the revolutionary year of 1848 he tried to create a kind of German national poem with his work Germania . Since 1853 the now impoverished Ortlepp lived in his old home again.

After the failed attempt to become a teacher at a secondary school in 1856, he slipped even deeper into social isolation. He received his only award from Cologne: a fool's diploma. He now repeatedly came into conflict with the judiciary and had to serve two prison terms in Zeitz in 1858 and 1861. However, this did not end his poetic work. During the period in question, numerous poems by Ortlepp continued to appear in the Naumburger Kreisblatt .

In the last few years before his death, he often stayed at his old school, where he was friends with a few students. One of these was Friedrich Nietzsche , whom, in the opinion of Nietzsche researcher Hermann Josef Schmidt , Ortlepp is said to have shaped through alleged pederastic behavior as well as through his aggressive blasphemy. Nonetheless, his technically sound work as a tutor was impressive. He fascinated the young adepts with his bizarre and almost magical aura.

The writer Joachim Köhler incorporated the discoveries of Hermann Josef Schmidt into his Nietzsche biography.

Ernst Ortlepp died on June 14, 1864 under circumstances that were never entirely clear. The literary criticism was happy: Robert Prutz posthumously denounced him as the very last representative of a misinterpreted Sturm und Drang. At the time, 19-year-old Nietzsche wrote the following in a letter:

“By the way, old Ortlepp is dead. He fell into a ditch between Pforta and Almrich and broke his neck. In Pforta he was buried early in the morning in the gloomy rain; four workers carried the raw coffin; Prof. Keil followed with an umbrella. Not a clergyman. We spoke to him on the day of his death in Almrich. He said he was going to rent a room in the Saalthale. We want to put a little memorial stone for him; we have collected; we have 40 thousand. "

Poems and other works

  • The evening bells. , 1831
  • Fieschi: A poetic night piece. L. Fort, Leipzig 1835 ( online at Google Books ).
  • Beethoven. A fantastic characteristic , Leipzig 1836 ( digitized version )
  • Shakespeare's sonnets , in: Supplements to Shakspeare's works in four volumes, Volume 3 (1840), pp. 221-324

literature

  • Paul Mitzschke : Memories of Ernst Ortlepp. in: Thüringer Monatsblätter XIX, 1912, pp. 137–141
  • Friedrich Nemec:  Ortlepp, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 601 ( digitized version ).
  • Roland Rittig and Rüdiger Ziemann (editors): Ernst Ortlepp, Sounds from the Saalthal, poems , Halle (Saale) 1999
  • Roland Rittig and Rüdiger Ziemann (editors): Ernst Ortlepp, documents of his life and work in the holdings of the Museum Schloss Moritzburg Zeitz , Halle (Saale) 2000
  • Roland Rittig and Rüdiger Ziemann (editors): Ernst Ortlepp, Fieschi. A poetic night piece , Halle (Saale) 2001, Janos Stekovics publishing house
  • Roland Rittig and Rüdiger Ziemann (editors): Nietzsche and Ortlepp's “demonic song” . In: Nietzsche research. Yearbook of the Nietzsche Society , Volume 7, Berlin 2000, Akademie-Verlag
  • Writings of the Ernst Ortlepp Society:
    • Volume 1: Hermann Josef Schmidt: DICHTERSCHICKSALS cloud - Ernst Ortlepp's way to Zeitz , Halle (Saale) 2001, Janos Stekovics publishing house
    • Volume 2: "The free spirit free flight". Contributions to German literature , 2003 (editors: Roland Rittig, Dieter Bähtz and Manfred Beetz)
    • Volume 3: “I will continue poetry until this life disappears” . Ernst Ortlepp Colloquium 2004 in Schulpforte.
  • Manfred Neuhaus: Facts and assumptions about Ernst Ortlepp. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2303-X .
  • Manfred Neuhaus: The Comet / The Northern Lights (1830–1833) and Ernst Ortlepp. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005.
  • Hermann J. Schmidt: It was probably old Ortlepp after all. Alibri Verlag Aschaffenburg, 2nd heavily changed edition 2004, ISBN 3-932710-69-X .
  • Günter Schulte : Nietzsche's Dionysian Initiation , in: ders .: Philosophy of the last things. About love and death as the ground and abyss of thinking, Kreuzlingen / Munich, Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 1997, pp. 156–173.
  • Thomas Steinert: "Dionysus was here". Ernst Ortlepp: The poet's life and work in words and pictures. Leipzig, Verlag Pro, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-936508-57-4 .
  • Ernst Ortlepp: Speech of the Eternal Jew (new ed. By R. Rittig and R. Ziemann with drawings by Dieter Golztsche), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-284-9
  • Writings of the Ernst Ortlepp Society:
    • Volume 9: Anne Usadel, Kai Agthe and Roland Rittig (editors): By the way, old Ortlepp is dead ... - but not forgotten. Literary colloquium on the 150th anniversary of the death of the poet Ernst Ortlepp from Droyanzig. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2015
    • Volume 10: Anne Usadel (editor): Ernst Ortlepp's letters - an annotated inventory. Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken 2015
    • Volume 11: Manfred Neuhaus: Music, Music! You echo of other worlds - Ernst Ortlepp and music. epubli, Berlin 2019

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Ortlepp  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Joachim Köhler: Dangerous God , in: stern, No. 41, Hamburg 1994, p. 246.
  2. ↑ Joachim Köhler: Zarathustra's secret. Friedrich Nietzsche and his encrypted message , Reinbek near Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1992.
  3. ^ To Wilhelm Pinder in Heidelberg, Naumburg, July 4, 1864 full text
  4. ↑ Google Books (online) , (1414)
  5. ↑ http://fbk-lsa.de/index.php?id=21&autor=102 , accessed on February 7, 2020
  6. ↑ https://www.ernst-ortlepp.de/index.html , accessed on February 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Ortlepp, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the Vormärz
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Droyziger at Zeitz
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1864
Place of death School gate near Naumburg