Friedrich Witthauer

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Friedrich Witthauer, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, supplement to the Wiener Zeitschrift , February 1, 1845

Friedrich Witthauer (born May 25, 1793 in Berlin , † September 30, 1846 in Meran ) was a German-Austrian journalist, editor and publisher of the Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion .

Life

Little is known about Witthauer's childhood and youth. He is said to have been born in Bremen either in 1786 or 1793. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Michaelis in 1811. He is probably identical to that Friedrich Witthauer, who can be verified as the son of the composer and church musician Johann Georg Witthauer, who died in Lübeck in 1802 and received the Paulische Family Scholarship as a law student in Leipzig. This is underpinned by the fact that Wilhelm Crusius , who married Anna Elise Witthauer , is later named as his brother-in-law and recipient of his estate. Friedrich Witthauer is said to have lived temporarily in Sweden and London and served as a Prussian officer. In 1825 he worked as a theater critic in Berlin, as Karoline Bauer recalled before moving to Vienna shortly afterwards.

Here he gave lessons in French and English, including Nikolaus Lenau before his (temporary) emigration, and wrote in Adolf Bäuerle's Wiener Theaterzeitung and from 1827 on in the Viennese magazine . When its owner and publisher Johann Schickh died in 1835, Witthauer acquired the magazine, generally known only as a fashion newspaper, from his widow. Under his leadership, it developed into Austria's most respected magazine and was compared to the Morgenblatt for educated classes .

There are no individual literary works by Witthauer, but there are poems and stories in magazines, especially in the Wiener Zeitschrift itself. In 1838 he published an anthology under the title Album. With the participation of national writers, for the benefit of the unfortunate in Pesth and Ofen , the proceeds of which were intended for the victims of a flood in what is now Budapest ; The volume, which contains contributions from almost all outstanding Austrian Biedermeier writers, opens with a foreword by Nikolaus Lenau.

In the mid-1840s, a severe chest condition and the increasing censorship of the Vormärz forced him to withdraw. At the end of 1844 he gave up the publication of the magazine. His successor as editor was Gustav von Franck .

He went to Merano via Venice, where he arrived in the summer of 1846 and died in September. He was also buried in Merano, where a marble plaque in the church wall commemorated him.

Honors

In memory of Witthauer, Kleingasse in Vienna-Währing was renamed Witthauergasse in 1894 .

Works

  • Album: With the participation of national writers for the benefit of those who died in Pesth and Oven. Vienna: Anton Strauss 1838

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Witthauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Bruno Pokorny's description of Witthauer's grave slab in Der Schlern 12 (1931), p. 430
  2. ↑ If he was born in 1793, according to his father's biography, his place of birth will have to be Berlin - just as his tombstone apparently describes him as a writer from Berlin , according to Baedeker (e).
  3. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized , no. 23
  4. ↑ Angela Kulenkampff: The Paulische Family Scholarship in Lübeck: A contribution to the history of the Hanseatic foundation with a list of the scholarship recipients from 1732-1923 , in: Journal of the Association for Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde (ZVLGA) 73, 1993, pp. 185–246, here p 228
  5. ↑ Ignaz Franz Castelli : Memoirs of my life: Found and felt, experienced and strived for. Volume 4, Vienna: Kober & Markgraf 1861, p. 178 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Karoline Bauer: From my stage life: memories. Berlin 1871 p. 258f, see also Arnold Wellmer (ed.): Verschollene Herzensgeschichten. ( From the life of a deceased, Volume 3) Berlin 1880, p. 27f
  7. ↑ See the digital copies of selected volumes of the Düsseldorf University Library
  8. ↑ Biographisches Lexikon (Lit), p. 159
  9. ↑ See list of street names in Vienna / Währing
personal data
SURNAME Witthauer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian journalist, editor and publisher of the Viennese magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1786 or 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1846
Place of death Meran