Franz von Schober

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Schober in front of Torup Castle, painting by Leopold Kupelwieser
To the music - Schober's poem in one of Schubert's autograph writings
Memorial plaque for the unfinished D 759 and Schubert as a guest at Schobers (1822) in the Göttweiger Hof Vienna on Spiegelgasse

Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober , from 1801 von Schober (born May 17, 1796 at Torup Castle near Malmö , Sweden ; † September 13, 1882 in Dresden ) was an Austrian poet , librettist and lithographer as well as an actor in Breslau and a councilor in Weimar .

Life

Franz Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden, as his father was an estate manager in Schonen (Skåne) at the time. In 1801 the family was raised to the Austrian nobility. The father died on February 8, 1802. Schober's mother, Katharina b. Derffel (* 1762 in Baden near Vienna; † 1833 in Vienna) returned to Austria with Franz and his three older siblings Axel († 1817), Ludovica († 1812) and Sophie († 1825) - whose exact dates of birth are not yet known back.

From 1803 Schober was educated in the Salzmann School in Schnepfenthal . From 1806 he lived in Austria, attended the Vienna Academic Gymnasium and from 1808 the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster . From 1815 he lived in Vienna again . There he first took up a degree in philosophy at the university , but did not complete it.

While still in Upper Austria he made friends with the von Spaun siblings , in Vienna also with Johann Mayrhofer , Johann Chrysostomus Senn , Leopold Kupelwieser , Franz von Bruchmann, Franz Schubert , Moritz von Schwind , Eduard von Bauernfeld and Ernst von Feuchtersleben and later with their Vienna -Stays u. a. with Ottilie von Goethe and her children, so with Walther von Goethe .

Even at the time of his later broken engagement to Franz von Bruchmann's sister Justina, Schober performed in Breslau from 1823 to 1825 - during his engagement with Gottlob Benedict Bierey as an actor under the pseudonym "Torupson" - not only u. a. with Richard Wagner's older siblings Albert and Luise and Heinrich Schmelka on stage, but also came into lively contact with the journalist Karl Schall as well as with Johann Theodor Mosewius , Karl Witte and Antonio Mayer from the circle of Carl von Holtei and Eugen von Vaerst . Also in Breslau he was idolized by Ferdinand Esslair's daughter Hedwig and Marie, the wife of the (glass) painter Albert Höcker.

From 1826 to 1829 Schober headed the Lithography Institute in Vienna. He was a partner and educator in the family of Leo Graf Festetics in Tolna , Hungary , travel companion of Franz Liszt and initiated that the frescoes in the Wartburg were designed by Schwind. From 1856 he was married to the youthful writer Thekla von Gumpert , but from 1860 he was separated again.

Schober's estate, which is distributed among various collections in Vienna, Hamburg and Weimar, is one of the most important sources for the biography of Franz Schubert and Moritz von Schwind. He was in constant contact with their first biographers Heinrich Kreißle von Hellborn and Hyacinth Holland since 1861 and 1871 respectively.

Poems set to music

Schober wrote numerous poems, some of which were set to music by Schubert - including An die Musik and Jäger's Liebeslied - as well as the libretto for Schubert's opera Alfonso and Estrella in 1821 . Liszt and other composers also set texts by him to music.

Publications (selection)

literature

  • E. Lebensaft - R. Pichl - H. Reitterer:  Schober, Franz (Adolf Friedrich) von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 420 f. (Direct links on p. 420 , p. 421 ).
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Schober, Franz von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 62–65 ( digitized version ).
  • Hyacinth Holland:  Schober, Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 202-206.
  • Maria Eckhardt: Franz von Schober. Schubert and Liszt's poet friend. In: Schubert through glasses. 18. Hans Schneider , Tutzing 1997, pp. 69-79.
  • Ilija Dürhammer : "Affections of a lively, desiring sensuality". The “Sch o bert” circle between “new school” and Weltschmerz. In: Walther Dürr , Siegfried Schmalzriedt , Thomas Seyboldt (eds.): Schubert's songs based on poems from his literary circle of friends. In search of the tone of poetry in music. Congress report Ettlingen 1997. Frankfurt a. M. 1999, pp. 39-58.
  • Siegfried Schmalzriedt : “My soul touches the strings”. Franz von Schober's poetry in Franz Schubert's settings . In: Schubert's songs based on poems from his literary circle of friends . [... ibid], pp. 59–80.
  • Ilija Dürhammer: Schubert's literary home. Poetry and literature reception of the Schubert friends. Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1999.
  • Michael Kohlhäufl: Poetic Fatherland. Poetry and political thinking in Franz Schubert's circle of friends. Kassel 1999.
  • Rita Steblin : The Schober family's "deep moral corruption" as revealed in spy reports from 1810 about Ludovica and her mother. In: Schubert through glasses. 29. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2002, pp. 39-65.
  • Michael Lorenz : The Schober family and their genealogical environment. In: Schubert through glasses. 30. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2003 ( family tree from this article )
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: “Torupson” and Franz von Schober - the life and work of the Schubert and Schwind friend, courted by women, friends and biographers. In: Schubert: Perspectives. Volume 6, 2006, Issue 1 and 2 - special issue, pp. 1–237, ISSN  1617-6340 . In addition table of contents and register of persons, in: Schubert: Perspektiven. Volume 7, 2007, pp. 107-120.
  • Rita Steblin: Schober's Love Affair with Marie von Spaun and the Role Played by Helene Schmith, the Wife of Mozart's First Violinist. In: Schubert: Perspectives. Volume 8, 2008, pp. 48-86.

Web links

Commons : Franz von Schober  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Genealogy of the Schober Family , accessed on September 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schober, Franz Adolf Friedrich (full name until 1801); Schober, Franz Adolf Friedrich von (full name from 1801)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Torup Castle near Malmo, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1882
Place of death Dresden