Ernst Wichert

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Ernst Wichert (around 1875)
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Ernst Alexander August George Wichert (born March 11, 1831 in Insterburg , East Prussia , † January 21, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German writer and lawyer.

Life

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Ernst Wichert, son of a lawyer, attended secondary school in Pillau and later the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg . As a student of law at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he became a member of the progressist fraternity of Palmburgia in 1851 . After his time as assessor in Memel , he became a district judge in Prökuls (now in Lithuania ) in 1860 . Three years later he came back to Königsberg as a city ​​judge , where in 1877 (according to other sources, 1879) he was appointed senior judge at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court and received an honorary doctorate . From the three emperor year 1888 Wichert was a judge of the chamber judge in Berlin. In 1896 he went as a Privy Counselor in pension . Ernst Wichert died in Berlin and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery.

The poet lawyer - known as "poet and judge" - was co-editor of the Old Prussian monthly and co-founder of the German cooperative of dramatic authors and composers , which was launched in Leipzig in 1871 . Later renamed the Association of German Stage Writers , the oldest national association of authors in Germany now operates as the Dramatists Union .

His daughter Anna Wichert (* 1865) married the Indologist Richard Garbe in 1887 , then a professor in Königsberg and later in Tübingen.

Works

Wichert has published 34 works for the stage , 28 novels and 15 mostly multi-volume collections of short stories .

His knowledge of the social reality in the German Empire and his experiences from everyday court life flowed into his works. In the Lithuanian Stories , Wichert tells of the life and struggle for existence of fishermen and country people.

In his stage plays and prose works he met the need of the Wilhelmine bourgeoisie for confirmation of their values ​​and belief in the future of the German Empire . They form a culturally and historically authentic picture of the 19th century.

Plays

  • Our General York . Patriotic drama in five acts. Decker, Berlin 1858. ( digitized version )
  • The Withing of Samland . A tragedy in five acts. Decker, Berlin 1860. ( digitized version )
  • Light and shadow . Play in five acts. Decker, Berlin 1861. ( digitized version )
  • The fool of luck . Comedy in five acts. Landvogt, Vienna 1869. ( digitized version )
  • One step off the path . Acting in five acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1871. ( digitized version ) premiered November 16, 1871 at the City Theater Königsberg; a limited new edition with materials on life and work was published in 1999 by Baltica Verlag (Flensburg). ISBN 3-934097-05-7
  • The realists . Comedy in four acts. Dalkowski, Königsberg 1873. ( digitized version )
  • Bending or breaking . Comedy in four acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1874. ( digitized version )
  • At the major corner . Comedy in one act. Reclam, Leipzig 1875. ( digitized version )
  • The woman for the world . Acting in five acts. Dalkowski, Königsberg 1875. ( digitized version) (already performed in the season 1874/75 at the Stadttheater Königsberg)
  • Moritz of Saxony . Tragedy in 5 acts. Janke, Berlin 1873. ( digitized version ) premiered December 6, 1876 at the City Theater Koenigsberg
  • The Prince's friend . Comedy in four acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1879. ( digitized version )
  • Peter Munk . Folk play in four acts and a prelude. Reclam, Leipzig 1882. ( digitized version )
  • In its own right . Patriotic drama in 5 acts. Reissner, Leipzig 1893.
  • In the service of duty . Play in four acts. Reissner, Dresden and Leipzig 1896. ( digitized version )

Novels, short stories, short stories

  • From a decent family , novel in three volumes. Janke, Berlin 1866
  • Schuster Lange , novella, published in the garden gazebo in 1873
  • A small picture , a story from the time of the Franco-German War, published in the Gazebo in 1875
  • Novelized comedy , published in the gazebo in 1876
  • Only truth , novella, published in the Deutsche Rundschau in 1876
  • Bound. Story , published in the gazebo in 1878
  • Heinrich von Plauen . Historical novel, Reissner, Leipzig 1886
  • Lithuanian stories . Reissner, Leipzig 1881. New edition Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7437-2505-8 ( digitized version )
  • From life . Stories. 2 volumes. Reissner, Leipzig 1882
  • Under a blanket . Novellas. Reissner, Leipzig 1883
  • The bride in mourning , appeared in the gazebo in 1883
  • The Mayor of Thorn , Roman, 1886 new edition 2015. ( digitized version )
  • The Great Elector in Prussia Patriotic novel in 2 volumes. Volume 1: Konrad Born ; Volume 2: The Schöppenmeister . Reissner, Leipzig 1887
  • A confession , novella, published in the gazebo in 1891
  • "Elsa". A marriage tragedy in letters , 1893 in the gazebo appeared
  • Ansas and Grita . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 14. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 195-300. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

Autobiography

  • Judge and poet. A life card . Schuster & Loefler, Berlin 1899. ( digitized version )

Film adaptations

literature

  • Margot Braun: Ernst Wichert's novel "The Great Elector in Prussia". A contribution to the history of the historical novel in the 19th century. Triltsch, Würzburg-Aumühle 1940.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 722-724.

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Wichert  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Ernst Wichert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Wichert. Focus .
  2. ^ Ostpreußenblatt , December 29, 1962, p. 10
  3. ↑ Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 166.
  4. ^ Ernst Wichert: The mayor of Thorn in the Gutenberg-DE project
personal data
SURNAME Wichert, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichert, Ernst Alexander August George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1902
Place of death Berlin