Gottlieb Theodor Pilz

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Gottlieb Theodor Pilz (also known under the pseudonym Otto Nicolai ; 1789–1856) is a fictional writer and composer .

Pilz appears for the first time as a literary figure in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's short story "1956 - a year of mushrooms", which was first published on February 2, 1951 in the magazine "hier und heute" (No. IV, pp. 14-16) and later (with changing titles) in Hildesheimer's 1952 (1956, 1962 etc.) short story collection Lieblose Legenden was published. Raimund Bezold dedicated an article to Pilz in 1991 in: Walther Killy (Hrsg.): Literatur Lexikon. Authors and works of German language. Vol. 9. Berlin and Gütersloh 1991. pp. 165 f., And also the CD-ROM edition published in the digital library reproduces this article on p. 15993. Like the stone louse or Edmund Friedemann Dräcker, mushroom is one of the scientific jokes that are distributed as bogus lexicon articles .

Life

According to the invented vita , Pilz was born in Dinkelsbühl or Nördlingen in 1789 and died on September 12, 1856 in Paris . As the son of wealthy Protestant parents, he came into contact with the spiritual life of his time at an early age. Particularly noteworthy is his acquaintance with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , who visited Pilz's parents' house after the family moved to Hamburg. During a two-year trip to Italy after finishing school, he met Mme. De Staël in Rome . He was opposed to your plan for a work on Germany (De l'Allemagne) , but - not yet in full possession of his demotivating abilities - was only able to restrict its execution and publication in 1813, but not prevent it. Back in Germany, Pilz played a decisive role in Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's task of writing and his turning to and invention of the gymnastics movement in 1810/11 . “Pilz does not limit himself to dissuading poets from their literary projects, musicians and painters are not safe from him either. He pursues a cross-disciplinary art prevention program. ”From 1814, Pilz appeared in Vienna in the vicinity of Beethoven and is generally regarded as the cause of his unproductive phase (1814 to 1818). 1821 joined mushroom in Berlin in appearance and learned - as a regular guest in the house Lutter & Wegner - E. T. A. Hoffmann and Grabbe know. From 1823, mostly in Paris, Pilz was initially involved in literary circles around George Sand and Alfred de Musset . Meyerbeer and Chopin were later friends. The realization of the real talent of Rossini is generally attributed to him. Pilz died on September 12, 1856, during a reading of his one-act revision of all of Jean Racine's tragedies at the Schlagfluss .

effect

According to Bezold, Pilz 'particular importance is to have "fought tirelessly against the artistic overzealousness of his time". Throughout his life he tried to “retard the art of his contemporaries”. The seven letters of Gottlieb Theodor Pilz (Ed .: Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow, Stuttgart 1864) are regarded as his main work .

literature

  • GS Grützbacher: Is Pilz Dinkelsbühler? [...] . In: sheet for applied culture. Vol. 22 (1881).
  • Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Loveless legends . DVA, Stuttgart 1952.
  • Raimund Bezold: Pilz, Gottlieb Theodor . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German . Vol. 9. Berlin and Gütersloh 1991. pp. 165 f.
  • Mathias Greffrath: Montaigne, Pilz, Beckett - a broken line of tradition in modern European times. In: Einstein Forum, Symposium “2006 - a mushroom year”, Potsdam, November 17, 2006 (available as an electronic resource at: [1] ; PDF; 212 kB).
  • Wolfgang Hörner: None of that should exist! A conference implosion in seven sentences with an explanatory appendix on the true mushroom year . In: Einstein Forum , Symposium "2006 - a year of mushrooms" Potsdam, November 17, 2006 (available as an electronic resource at: [2] ; PDF; 131 kB).
  • Rüdiger Zill: The Truth About Gottlieb Theodor Pilz. Corrections to a legend . In: Einstein Forum , Symposium "2006 - a year of mushrooms" Potsdam, November 17, 2006 (available as an electronic resource at: [3] ; PDF; 288 kB).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A paradise of many tracks. The writer and visual artist Wolfgang Hildesheimer was born a hundred years ago. In: NZZ.ch. December 8, 2016, accessed January 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hildesheimer: 1956 - a year of mushrooms , quoted from: Das deutsche Inkfaß , edited by Daniel Keel and Gerd Haffmans , Diogenes, Zurich 1977, pp. 88–96, here p. 94.

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personal data
SURNAME Pilz, Gottlieb Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicolai, Otto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION fictional writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1789
DATE OF DEATH 1856