Franz Koppel-Ellfeld

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Franz Koppel-Ellfeld (before 1890)

Franz Koppel (-Ellfeld) (born December 7, 1838 in Eltville am Rhein , † January 16, 1920 in Dresden ) was a German poet lawyer and dramaturge in Dresden.

Life

Koppel was the only son of the Eltville landowner Johannes Koppel and his wife Luise nee. Strüvy. He began to study history and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and was active in the Corps Suevia Tübingen in 1859 . He switched to law and went to the University of Leipzig for the winter semester of 1859/60 . There he joined the Corps Misnia Leipzig (with Nikolaus von Baudissin and Albin Le Maistre ) . Finally he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he was awarded a Dr. iur. received his doctorate . After completing his studies, he married Irene Schaeuffelen (1846–1921) in Dresden (Maria Theresia) on January 17, 1865 . She was the daughter of the entrepreneur Gustav Schaeuffelen and his second wife Auguste Luise geb. Seyffer. Having become financially independent through the “good match”, he gave up the desire to become a diplomat . After the one-year honeymoon, the couple settled in Munich . Paul Heyse , Friedrich Bodenstedt and Emanuel Geibel became friends of the house.

Disappointed with the failure of his first novel, Two Brothers in Jesus , he left Munich. Temporarily in Heilbronn , his wife's home, he went on a journey of several months through Spain . Then he traveled to the North Cape via Sweden and Norway . In the spring of 1869 he bought a large house in Dresden. He left the garden pavilion to Hans von Marées , who was a permanent guest of the house until he moved to Florence . In 1871 , Koppel completed his habilitation at the Dresden Polytechnic for cultural history . After five years as a private lecturer , he was appointed associate professor in 1876 . When his Spartacus failed at the Royal Court Theater in Dresden in 1875 , the spouses became estranged. Koppel's wife saw her wish for a very famous man unfulfilled. She divorced and married Adolf von Hildebrand in Florence in 1877 .

Koppel gave up his professorship and switched to journalism . In 1877 he became a feature section editor for the Dresdner Zeitung , later a critic for drama for the Dresdner Nachrichten . He remained a stage poet. At that time he took the name Ellfeld after his place of birth Eltville in order not to be confused with the playwright Ernst Koppel . In April 1890 he became dramaturge at the Dresden court theater and in October 1890 he received the honorary title of artistic director .

“ King Albert held the highly skilled, funny, playful journalist in high regard. When his life became cloudy six years later, he gave up his position and left the Association of the Court Theater at the end of October 1896. From then on he withdrew, who had already lost his only son earlier, and lived in quiet contemplation and sociable communication only with his own work. "

- Obituary Suevia Tübingen

He could not realize the intention to write down his life story under the title: "How I lived and was lived." When friends visited him after his 81st birthday, he said:

“Children, you have no idea how nice it is to die. I feel how I slowly slide over, I feel how I am getting happier. "

- Franz Koppel-Ellfeld

Works

Stella von Hohenfels-Berger and Jenny Groß liked to play in Koppel's pieces. Eduard Bloch moved some of his stage works .

"By working with Franz von Schönthan, he became one of the most successful representatives of the French role models that received and socially defused entertainment theater of the early days."

- Christian Black

“These stage works were surrounded by a lovable elegance; the characteristics, the verses, the rhymes were casual and flattering; the pieces were unreal, they were only ornate emanations of the great, infinite romanticism; but they had that lightness, that gift of beautiful women, that in their presence, their playful amiability, one forgot the hard, gray monotony of reality. They always bore the stamp of the unreal openly on their foreheads: they were games and never wanted to be more than games. "

- NN

Dramas

  • The end of the Schill . A tragedy in five acts. Mäntler, Stuttgart 1864.
  • It does not apply to worry . Comedy in 5 acts. Lehmann, Dresden 1870. ( digitized version )
  • Marguerite . Acting in five acts. Pierson, Dresden and Leipzig 1887. ( digitized ) reprint NabuPress 2010.
  • On coal . Original comedy in four acts'. Mutze, Leipzig 1873. ( digitized version )
  • Which Maier? Stagger in an elevator. Schulze, Dresden 1876.
  • Spartacus . A tragedy in five acts. Schulze, Dresden 1876. ( digitized version )
  • Gorilla or chimpanzee . Stagger in an elevator. Pierson, Dresden 1877.
  • Albrecht the Courageous . Romantic patriotic drama in 4 acts. Publishing house of the Literary Society, Leipzig 1889. ( digitized version )
  • The baptism of fire , festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the officer ... of King Albert. Schottlaender, Breslau 1893.
  • The sweet face . Episode. Schottlaender, Breslau 1894.
  • Poison and bile . Stagger in 4 lifts. Berlin 1895.
  • A Don Juan exam . Humorous. Thiel, Leipzig 1881.
  • (With Franz von Schönthan ): Renaissance . Comedy in three acts. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1897.
  • Rosenwacht . Comedy in one act. Bloch, Berlin 1900.
  • (With Franz von Schönthan): The golden Eva . Comedy in 3 acts. Bloch, Berlin 1902.
  • (With Franz von Schönthan): Florio and Flavio . A picaresque piece and love game. Bloch, Berlin 1902.
  • The lion's share . Cheerful game in 3 lifts. Berlin 1907.
  • (With Franz von Schönthan): Countess Guckerl . Comedy in 3 acts. Bloch, Berlin 1906.
  • (With Franz von Schönthan): Mrs. Queen . Game in 2 departments. Bloch, Berlin 1902.
  • The direction of chance . Comedy in 4 acts. Dresden 1890.

Opera texts

  • for Reinhold Becker (1842–1924): Frauenlob. Opera in 3 acts . Leipzig 1910.
  • for Karl Grammann : Neutral ground. Opera in 1 act . 1890.
  • for Karl von Kaskel : wedding morning. Opera in one act . 1883.

Others

  • Cervantes on the way . A poem. Kröner, Stuttgart 1865.
  • Two brothers in Jesus ' novel. Kröner, Stuttgart 1867.
  • The early knife . Narrative.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Schwarz: Koppel-Ellfeld, Franz . Killy literary dictionary . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ^ University of Jena
  3. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129/168; 90/157.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Archives Corps Suevia Tübingen
  5. ↑ Werner Mittlmeier:  Hildebrand, Adolf Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 119 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Ernst Koppel (born April 22, 1850 in Hamburg, † January 11, 1920 in Italy [Florence or Rome]) was the son of a Hamburg merchant and lived in Berlin and Italy. Dramas: Merlin (1877), The Carthaginian (1902). Shows: Iphigenia in Delphi (1874), The Treasure (1882), The Church (1897)
  7. ↑ Register entry in the German biography
  8. ↑ a b Dresdner Anzeiger , January 16, 1920
personal data
SURNAME Koppel-Ellfeld, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koppel, Franz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1920
Place of death Dresden