Hanns Wagner (playwright)

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Hanns Wagner , also Johannes Carpentarius or Ioannes Carpentarius (born October 19, 1522 in Bremgarten ; † September 1, 1590 in Solothurn ), Swiss playwright .

Life

Hanns Wagner enrolled at April 29, 1538 at the University in Freiburg , where even his uncle John eel had studied. There he came into contact with Heinrich Loriti (Glarean) and acquired knowledge of Latin and of Greek and Roman poetry. Wagner completed his studies in 1542 with a master's degree . He then followed again John eel, this time to Solothurn, where he organist and schoolmaster at the Latin St.Ursen - Stiftsschule was. Hans Jakob vom Staal (the elder) was his pupil. In 1585 Wagner retired and was awarded a lifelong pension. From 1581 until his death, Hanns Wagner was a member of the Grand Council of the City of Solothurn. Hanns Wagner's library has been preserved (today in the Solothurn Central Library ).

Works

Hanns Wagner wrote occasional poems and directed several school dramas in Latin. In German , he wrote several citizens play :

  • Epiphany Game (performed on February 5, 1561)
  • Ariſtotimus tyrannus ( manuscript , 1575)
  • Sant Mauritzen Tragoedia and Sant Vrſen Spil (double drama, performed August 1581)
  • Actus V. Stephanis (unfinished)

His handwritten music is stored in the Solothurn State Archives.

literature

  • Reto Caluori: Hanns Wagner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 2036 f.
  • Rolf Max Kully: Hanns Wagner alias "Ioannes Carpentarius". All works and a testimony biography . Bern, Frankfurt am Main 1982 (brosch. As Europäische Hochschulschriften: series 1, German language and literature , vol. 506 ), ISBN 3-261-05009-8
    • Vol. 1: Sant Mauritzen Tragoedia and Sant Vrſen Spil
    • Vol. 2: Dreikönigsspiel , Ariſtotimus tyrannus , Actus V. Stephanis , Carmina and poems
    • Vol. 3: The life of the Latin schoolmaster and playwright Hanns Wagner alias "Ioannes Carpentarius". A testimony biography by Rolf Max Kully
  • Rolf Max Kully: Hanns Wagner and the Solothurn Festival from 1581 . In: Yearbook for History of Solothurn, 55th Grenchen 1982, pp. 109–128 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-324807 )
  • Rolf Max Kully: The Glare student Ioannes Carpentarius, a poeta doctus. In: Glareans Solothurn students. Regional identity and international networking in the early modern scholarly culture. Ed .: Inga Mai Groote. Solothurn 2013 (= Publications of the Central Library Solothurn, 35), ISBN 978-3-9523134-7-3 , pp. 60–81
  • Rolf Max Kully: Hanns Wagner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Brinzing: small tradition of polyphonic music before 1550 in the German language area VII: New sources of music from the 13th to the 16th century in Munich, Solothurn and Augsburg ; in: Studies in Philology and Musicology ; de Gruyter, Berlin 2009 ( Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , New Volume 7, anthology 1), pp. 245–292, especially chap. 2.1: Organ tablature fragments by the hand of the Solothurn schoolmaster and organist Johann Wagner (pp. 263–267, as well as Fig. 5a-g, pp. 282–288).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpentarius, Johannes; Carpentarius, Ioannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss playwright and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1522
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremgarten
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1590
Place of death Solothurn