Heinrich von Levitschnigg

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Heinrich von Levitschnigg (portrait in "Poems". 1842)

Heinrich Ritter von Levitschnigg , actually: until 1815 Heinrich Levitschnigg , from 1815 to 1818 Heinrich Edler von Levitschnigg , from 1818 Heinrich Levitschnigg Ritter von Glomberg (born September 25, 1810 in Vienna ; † January 24,  1862 there ), was an Austrian writer and Journalist.

Life

Heinrich Ritter von Levitschnigg first studied law at the University of Vienna , then medicine and finally went over to the military class. As a sub-lieutenant in a regiment on the Turkish border, he warmed his imagination completely for the oriental luxury of images that Freiligrath and partly Rückert had brought into poetry, and after he had published lyrical samples in magazines etc., he also left the military class, to devote oneself entirely to literature.

From 1837 he worked for the Wiener Zeitung and the magazine Der Humorist by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir . From 1845 he lived in Pest as editor of the feature pages of the Pester Zeitung and published the Pester Sunday newspaper between 1854 and 1855 . From March 1859 (after Saphir's death) he was temporarily editor of the magazine Der Humorist . In 1861 Levitschnigg finally founded his own satirical monthly newspaper Der Zeitgeist (which existed until 1889) .

Literary work

His first publications, the romantic poem in four acts Rustan (Stuttgart 1841) and the poems (Vienna 1842), showed a beautiful talent that got lost in a labyrinth of exuberant and unfounded metaphors, which is what the later poems West - Oestlich (Vienna 1846) was even more the case. As a feature writer for the semi-official Pester Zeitung , he witnessed the Hungarian Revolution from 1848-49 , and after its defeat he received sharp opposing images in the two-volume Kossuth and its banners. Silhouettes from the post-March period in Hungary (Pest 1850). He dedicated his "Soldier's Primer" (Vienna, Munich, Pest 1852) to the imperial victors, and once again showed the poet already characterized in the volume of poems Brennende Liebe (Vienna 1852) .

After that he mainly wrote novels that were not very demanding (including The Mysteries of Pest , Vienna 1853). At the time when Wagner's Tannhauser appeared, he was staging a play of the same name that was enhanced by equipment and was a daily success (with the music of Franz von Suppés ). At last he sank down to puzzle books and the like. In 1860 Vienna appeared as it was and is. Pen drawings .

With Der Diebsfänger (1860) and other stories, Levitschnigg is one of the early German-speaking crime authors .

Chess writer

Levitschnigg took an active part in the development of the Pest Chess Club, founded in 1839 . A year before his death he gave a chess book entitled The Chess Master. Handbook for self-instruction in chess (Pest, Vienna and Leipzig 1861), which was later reissued. A third edition reworked by Johannes Minckwitz and provided with “an introduction to problem composition ” appeared in 1886 under the changed title Der Schachmatador. A Guide to Self-Lesson in Playing Chess .

Works

  • Rustan. Romantic poem in four acts. Stuttgart 1841.
  • Poems . Vienna 1842. - Full text .
  • West - East. Poems. Vienna 1846.
  • Lion and rose. Tragedy in five acts. Pest 1847. - Full text in: Ludwig Foglár : Discarded Drama . Pest 1847, p. 1.
  • A fairy tale. Pesth 1847. - Full text .
  • The stone guest. Poem. Vienna 1848.
  • Kossuth and its banners. Silhouettes from the post-march in Hungary. Pesth 1850. - Full text volume 1 , volume 2/2 .
  • Burning Love. Two bouquets of poems. Vienna 1852.
  • -, Franz von Suppé: The Tannhauser. Dramatic poem with song and dance in 3 acts. (Performed with great applause in the k. K. Priv. Theater an der Wien). Vienna 1852. - Full text .
  • The secrets of plague. Novel. 4 volumes. Vienna 1853. - Full text Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4/4 .
  • The Montenegrins or Christians Suffering in Turkey. Novel. Pest 1853. - Full text .
  • The newsboy. Novel. Pest, Vienna (among others) 1855. - Full text volume 1 , volume 2/2 .
  • The thief catcher. Novel. Vienna 1860. - Full text volume 1 , volume 2/2 .
  • Turandot. Nuts to crack open for beautiful, yet strong teeth. A collection of three hundred new riddles, characters, homonyms, etc. Pest, Vienna 1860. - Full text .
  • Vienna as it was and is. Pen drawings. Pest, Vienna 1860. - Full text .
  • The walk to the poison tree. Novel. Vienna 1862.
  • The corpse in the suitcase or another blond from Namur. Novel. Vienna 1863.
  • Lyre and sword. A future novella. Vienna 1864.
  • -, Thomas Loewe: Concini. Romantic opera in four acts. Music. by Thomas Loewe. Vienna 1865. - Full text .
  • See also microfiche editions, Saur, Munich (et al.) 1990–94, ISBN 3-598-51666-5 .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich von Levitschnigg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Levitschnigg, Levitschnigg v. Glomberg. In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 5: Kalb - Loewenthal. Voigt, Leipzig 1864, p. 497. ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. The Tannhauser. Dramatic poem with song and dance in three acts. According to a German folk tale. Music by Franz v. Soup. Prix, Vienna 1857.
  3. ^ Short history of the Austrian crime thriller .
  4. Ludwig Bachmann : From bygone times. Pictures from the history of the development of the practical game of chess. 2 volumes. Berlin 1920–1922 (Volume 2: p. 305)

Remarks

  1. Levitschnigg used this short name in his publications.
  2. a b From 1832 to 1845 the United Ofner-Pester Zeitung existed in Pest ; the Pester Zeitung appeared from 1848 (until 1849 and from 1853 to 1860 as the Pest-Ofner Zeitung ).
  3. ^ The Pest Sunday paper. Weekly for poetry, literature, art, music, theater and fashion: with monthly original Parisian fashion pictures existed from 1854 to 1858 and named Heinrich Ritter von Levitschnigg as editor in the extended title .