Georg Gotthart

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Georg Gotthart (also Gotthard ; * 1552 ?; †  March 23, 1619 in Solothurn ) was an iron merchant and poet ; he wrote three games (the spellings Gotthard and Gotthardt can also be found here and there, but Gotthart's works are all headed with "Georg Gotthart").

Life

Georg Gotthart took the citizenship oath in Solothurn in 1571 ; For the year of birth 1552, which is still mentioned in the older specialist literature, no further evidence could be provided. He worked as a «Jsenkraemer» (metal trader) and wrote three games without any academic training or knowledge of Latin , which were performed at great expense in Solothurn. The games are preserved as prints from that period. Georg Gotthart died on March 23, 1619. Gotthart's son is the theologian Johann Wilhelm Gotthard (also Johannes Wilhelm Gotthart ; 1592–1649).

German studies in the 19th century (and beyond) mostly took note of Gotthart's games in a disparaging manner; Jakob Baechtold , for example, wrote in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie: “The last two pieces, which required two days to be performed, are among the most extensive of the time. They are consistently without a plot, boring, blandly moralizing (...). "

Such judgments do not do justice to Gotthart's performance and his game texts. A special meaning of the games lies in the fact that they were the last publicly performed major citizen games in Solothurn; Before that, games had been held that were mainly oriented towards spiritual themes (e.g. the games by Hanns Wagner alias 'Ioannes Carpentarius'), after Gotthart came the time of the Jesuit and school drama.

Works

  • Histori vom Kampff between the Romans and those of Alba (Battle of the Romans), listed in 1584 and printed in Bern by Bendicht Ulmann and Vincenz Imhof. The material is a translation by Titus Livius 1.23ff. taken.
  • Destruction of the great and fortress royal place of Troia or Jlio (Troia), listed in 1598, printed in 1599 in Freiburg by Wilhelm Mäss. The game deals with the events of the Iliad , based on the transmission of the works of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis by Marcus Tatius (Tatius Alpinus).
  • Laeben deß deß pious vnnd Goettsfoerchtigen Tobiæ (Tobias), listed 1617, published by Johann Hederlin, Lucerne, printed in 1619 in Augsburg by Sara Mang. The game deals with the material from the book of Tobit .

expenditure

  • Georg Gotthart: Complete Works. Edited by Ralf Junghanns with an introduction to life and work. Zurich: Chronos 2016 (= Swiss texts, N. F., Vol. 46) [zgl. Diss. University of Zurich ]. ISBN 978-3-0340-1331-4
    • Contains the edition: "Histori of the struggle between the Romans and those of Alba."
    • In addition the digital edition: "A nice funny game or Tragedi of the destruction of the great and fortress royal place of Troia or Ilio"
    • In addition the digital edition: "A beautiful educational Histori and Comoedia, from the Läben of the pious and God-fearing Tobiae"

literature

  • Petra Fochler: Fiction as History. The Trojan War in 16th Century German Literature . Diss. Würzburg 1989. Wiesbaden 1990 (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages. Writings of the SFB 226 Würzburg / Eichstätt, 4), pp. 130–156.
  • Ralf Junghanns: Georg Gotthart . In: literary studies author lexicon . Humanism and Early Modern Times (1500 to 1750) [VL16], Volume 3. Berlin / Boston 2014.
  • Ralf Junghanns: “Good and useful” - drama as a civic education. Georg Gotthart's Troy from 1598/99. In: Journal for pedagogical historiography , 1/2005, pp. 65–71.
  • Ralf Junghanns: "Vil der Spylen" - Georg Gotthart († 1619) and the Solothurn playing tradition. In: Yearbook for History of Solothurn , 81/2008, pp. 119–130. doi: 10.5169 / seals-325259
  • Jürgen Kühnel: The "Troy novel" in the theater of the 15th and 16th centuries. Jacques Milet (1450/52), Hans Sachs (1554), Georg Gotthart (1599) . In: The Trojan War. European myths of love, passion, doom and death in (music) theater. Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 2000 . Ed .: Peter Csobádi, Gernot Gruber, Jürgen Kühnel, Ulrich Müller, Oswald Panagl, Franz Viktor Spechtler: Anif, Salzburg 2002 (= word and music. Salzburg academic contributions, 51), pp. 162–185.
  • Hellmut Thomke: Georg Gotthart: A nice, funny game or Tragedi: Of the destruction of the great and fortress royal place of Troy or Ilio. The Trojan War as a mirror of human life . In: The Trojan War. European myths of love, passion, doom and death in (music) theater. Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 2000 . Ed .: Peter Csobádi, Gernot Gruber, Jürgen Kühnel, Ulrich Müller, Oswald Panagl, Franz Viktor Spechtler: Anif, Salzburg 2002 (= word and music. Salzburg academic contributions, 51), pp. 186–194.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Baechtold :  Gotthart, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 485.
personal data
SURNAME Gotthart, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gotthard, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iron shopkeeper and poet, author of three games
DATE OF BIRTH around 1552
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1619
Place of death Solothurn