Franz Callenbach

Franz Callenbach SJ (born January 10, 1663 in Dittwar near Tauberbischofsheim , † February 3, 1743 in Bamberg ) was a Jesuit author of satirical school dramas of the Baroque period .

Life

Franz Callenbach's father was a temporary clerk in Tauberbischofsheim and then in 1680 an official cellar in Gamburg . His name was Christoph Callenbach, died in 1717, his mother was called Anna Katharina, she died in 1721. Callenbach grew up in Dittwar near Tauberbischofsheim. Franz Callenbach learned the basics of the Latin language in Tauberbischofsheim before attending the Jesuit grammar school in Würzburg . He received his further training at the Würzburg Jesuit College, where he was promoted to master's degree in spring 1683. On July 20 of the same year he entered the Jesuit order in Mainz. After the probationary period as a novice, he was transferred to Bamberg in 1685 in order to further train himself in science and teaching. From 1685 to 1690 he taught at the Bamberg Jesuit grammar school (1685/1686 he taught grammar, 1687 poetics, 1689/1990 rhetoric) and then continued his theological studies at the University of Würzburg . After studying theology between 1690 and 1694, he was ordained a priest in 1694. In 1694 the order appointed him to Wetzlar as educator of the Catholic members of the Reich Chamber of Commerce . A proper school first had to be established for the numerous families of the highest court in Wetzlar. Franz Callenbach received the order to found it in 1694. At first he ran the school alone, which was difficult because all denominations were represented. He was also the main preacher. He remained in this office for more than a quarter of a century. In 1697 he was prince educator in Wanfried bei Eschwege in Hesse , in 1698 he was a teacher at the Bamberg Jesuit College, first for mathematics, then for logic and philosophy. In 1702 he was a missionary in Hagenau, Alsace, from 1703–1721 he was again responsible for the old tasks in Wetzlar. The devastating conditions at the then Reich Chamber of Commerce provided plenty of material for his eight satirical comedies, which had to be reprinted over and over again during his tenure and enjoyed great popularity with the performing students as well as their parents in the auditorium. In 1721 he was called back to Würzburg, when Callenbach was given the honorable call of rector and novice master of the Würzburg Jesuit College. In 1725 he became a pastor, temporarily also secretary of the Upper Rhine Order Provincial in Bamberg, Heidelberg and Mainz, from 1734 back in Bamberg, where he died on February 3, 1743 at the age of eighty.

Call Bach's comedies are invariably in a macaroni rule written mishmash of Latin and German and have titles such as Wurmatia worm country, sub Tropico Cancri , Genealogia Nisibitarum / Nisi Trunk tree , Uti ante hac to the old hack , and quasi Vero, the Hinckende Bot , always with the Wetzlar court bureaucracy as a target. In his satirical comedies, Franz Callenbach also makes fun of the bad habits and vices in his environment in his own way. The worship of tobacco prompts him, for example, to the satirical tobacco order chant and to the tobacco order rule . His remarks are characterized by a keen eye for observation and clear description.

Literature (selection)

• Doris Behrens: Franz Callenbach's “Dramas” - satirical criticism of absolutism at the beginning of the 18th century in the context of Jesuit theater. Rheinfelden 1981 (originally Diss. Aachen 1980)
• Richard Brinkmann: Quasificirte Welt , in: Festschrift Elida Maria Szarota (1982), pp. 409-427
• Franz Callenbach: Eight school comedies. Edited by Reinhardt Roth in reprint by Edition Rolf Fetzer. Edingen-Neckarhausen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940968-01-2
• Rudolf Dammert: Franz Callenbach and his satirical comedies. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1903
• Jakob Franck :  Callenbach, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 707.
• Kurt Schreinert:  Callenbach, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 95 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Franz Callenbach in the literature portal Bavaria
• Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Famous Dittwarer: Franz Callenbach

List of works and references

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Franz Callenbach SJ (1663-1743)", in: Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque , Volume 2. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1990, pp. 949-968
• Pastor Kleemann: Festschrift - home book for the anniversary 300 years of the Kreuzkapelle Dittwar, parish of St. Laurentius Dittwar, StieberDruck GmbH, 186 pages, Lauda 1983, p. 97-101 (The Jesuit Franz Callenbach and his comedies)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Famous Dittwarers: Franz Callenbach Online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016.