Something about the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe
Something about the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe is a literary-critical treatise by Christian Dietrich Grabbe . Created in 1830, it was first printed in 1913. On June 21, 1835, excerpts of the article were in Hermann. A central organ for Rhineland-Westphalia appeared.
Grabbe tears up the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller from the years 1794 to 1805, which was published in six volumes in the Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Stuttgart in 1828/29.
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Grabbe observes his contemporaries keenly: “The mass of humanity today, at least the semi-educated in larger cities, turn to art (excluding their eating, drinking, cheating and being deceived).” He continues to observe that people even buy correspondence Goethe - Schiller. Annoying, "something less important has not been printed for a long time".
Grabbe cannot hide his deep-seated aversion to Goethe. The Weimar classic published "everything at Schiller's expense and because of his own blind vanity". The essay is not so much about the correspondence, which is teeming with "the most miserable trivialities", but simply about belittling "Sir Goethe" a little. That begins with the description of the relationship between the two letter writers. “Because of his [Goethe's] superior genius,” Schiller believes, he has to meet “the poet of the world” with “eternal Karesse” [love-making]. The "Minister of State Herr von Goethe" replied from above. Grabbe worries most that Goethe succeeded in everything with “talent and luck”, while Schiller's works are the products of his “spirit and diligence”. And besides, "Goethe, who had supported the Weimar Regent House for more than half a century, almost spoiled poets ... often traveled wherever he wanted." Nevertheless, Grabbe recognized Goethe's work, namely "small, often excellent songs". The "smaller lyrical and narrative ... poems arose with him from instantaneous feeling." Grabbe wonders how Goethe was able to produce all of this. Because "in Goethe's long life there would be almost nothing that could have excited him about poetry, a daughter of pain." Goethe's late work, however, more precisely, everything that the Olympian after the natural daughter (1803) and the elective affinities (1809) wrote, Grabbe cannot accept under any circumstances.
Self-testimony
- Grabbe treats the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller in passing. He brings "something about the aforementioned two poets themselves and about" his "time."
reception
- Löb tries to make the political and social components of Grabbe's hatred of Goethe visible.
- In terms of literary theory, Grabbe's treatise is worthless; it is certainly a contemporary document.
literature
- source
- Something about the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe. In: Grabbe's works in two volumes. Second volume. Pp. 387-410. Comments by Hans-Georg Werner (pp. 432–434). Library of German classics. Published by the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1987. 435 pages, ISBN 3-351-00113-4
- expenditure
- Christian Schuder and Jörg Petzel (eds.): Christian Dietrich Grabbe: Something about the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe. With hand-colored portraits by Irena Dubrowskaja. Afterword by Jörg Petzel. edition cave 1993. 28 loose sheets of paper printed on one side, 3 illustrations, each signed by the artist, original linen folder.
- Secondary literature
- Ladislaus Löb: Christian Dietrich Grabbe . Pp. 61-62. Verlag JB Metzler Stuttgart and Weimar 1996. 170 pages, ISBN 3-476-10294-7
Web links
- Text in Zeno.org My Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source, p. 432
- ^ Löb, p. 61
- ↑ Source, p. 432
- ↑ Source, p. 391, 4th Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 394, 15. Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 404, 7. Zvo
- ↑ Source, p. 432, 17th Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 401
- ↑ Source, p. 409
- ↑ Source p. 397, 15. Zvo
- ↑ Source p. 407, 7. Zvo
- ↑ Source, p. 400
- ↑ Source, p. 408
- ↑ Source, p. 410
- ↑ Source, p. 389
- ↑ Löb, p. 62, 16. Zvo
- ↑ Löb, p. 62, 11. Zvu