Hermann Kletke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermann Kletke (1877)
Signature Hermann Kletke.PNG

Gustav Hermann Kletke (born March 14, 1813 in Breslau ; † May 2, 1886 in Berlin ) was a German poet, writer and publicist.

Life

Hermann Kletke was the son of a lawyer from Breslau. Even as a high school student he wrote and worked occasionally for Wroclaw newspapers. He studied at the University of Breslau and became a doctor of philosophy doctorate . From 1832 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Breslau . He stayed temporarily in Vienna , where he belonged to Nikolaus Lenau's circle of friends . Driven out of the Austrian censorship , he went to Berlin, where Eduard Hitzig introduced him to the Monday Club .

The music critic Ludwig Rellstab recommended Kletke to the Vossische Zeitung in 1838 . Kletke was initially the editor of this probably most important sheet of the Berlin bourgeoisie , and in 1849, together with Otto Lindner, designed the main political section. From 1867 to 1880 Kletke was editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He then handed over the management to Friedrich Stephany , but remained a nominal member of the editorial team until one day before his death on May 2, 1886. In his last working years, Kletke devoted himself primarily to the Sunday supplement.

As a writer for young people, Kletke ensured above all that older materials from German and classical poetry were made accessible to young readers in prose versions. With his fairy tales by the fireplace , he provided a counterpart to Richard Volkmann-Leander's most successful fairy tale collection at the time , the dreams of French chimneys (1871). Kletke's collection of the Märchensaal der Völker (1844/1845), which, like his adaptation of the Rübezahl sagas (1882), records peculiarities of Kletke's Silesian homeland is part of the Herder tradition . A multilingual mixture of cultures was Kletke's ideal.

As an editor , Kletke excelled above all with Geistliche Blumenlese from German poets (1839), Book of Travel (1852) and the collection of pictures of nature and morals (1861).

As a liberal thinker and opinion-forming publicist, Kletke was a much sought-after conversationalist and correspondent. His long-term contact with Theodor Fontane is important due to the edition of their correspondence (1969) as a contemporary document.

Fonts

As an author

  • Poems, 1836
  • Words of love and comfort (poems), 1837
  • German song treasure trove in old and new songs, 1839
  • Almanac of German Folk Tales, 1840
  • The civil conspiracy in Breslau, novella, 1840
  • The Royalists in the Vendée, novella, 1840
  • Phantasus, 1841 (with the Christmas carol " The lights are burning on the Christmas tree ")
  • The Savoyard Children (story), 1841
  • Grandmother's evening stories, 1841
  • Spiritual flower picking from German poets, 1841
  • German fables of the 18th and 19th centuries, 1841
  • Almanac of German folk and children's fairy tales, 1841
  • Selection of epic poems for school and home, 1842
  • Songs and pictures from children's life, 1842
  • Spinning room, 1842
  • Song fairy tale, 1843
  • Album of German Poets, 1843
  • Album of love and friendship, 1844
  • The Children's Crusade, 1844
  • Fairy Tale Hall, 3 vols., 1844/1845
  • Handbook for the History of Modern German Literature, 1845
  • Children's songs, 1846
  • German history in songs, romances and ballads by German poets, 1846
  • German children's fairy tales, put into rhyme, 1849
  • The golden book, 2 vols., 1849
  • Poets' Garden for German Youth, 2 vol., 1850/1851
  • German song friend for school and home, 2 vols. (With E. Pax), 1850
  • Prussia's mirror of honor (with Adolf Müller), 1851
  • My grandmother's fairy tales, 1851
  • The Book of Rübezahl, 1852
  • Poems, 1852
  • The Book of Journeys, 1852
  • New book of journeys, 1853
  • The animal world in hunting scenes and character pictures, 1853
  • Germany's female poets, 1854
  • Walhalla (Germany's poet of the 18th and 19th centuries), 1854
  • Pictures from space, 1854
  • Alexander von Humboldt. Travels in America and Asia. A description of his most important research, 1854–1856
  • New travel pictures, 1855
  • Pictures and sketches from history, 1856
  • Sketchbook, 1856
  • Song and saying, 1857
  • Panorama, 1857
  • Jacob and his cousin, 1857
  • Princess Tausendschön, 1858
  • Germany's war and victory years 1809-15 in the song of German poets, 1859
  • New sketchbook, 1859
  • Selected letters from German men and German women, 1860
  • New historical pictures, 1860
  • Lands and Peoples, 1860
  • Pictures of nature and morals, 1861
  • A fairy tale book, 1864
  • Alexander von Humboldt. Travels in America and Asia. A description of his most important research, 1854–1856
  • The three kings of Jerusalem, 1868
  • Cross and Crescent, 1868
  • A new book of fairy tales, 1869
  • Fairy tales by the fireplace, 1873
  • Poems (Complete Edition), 1873
  • Colorful life, collected stories for the youth 1878
  • The children's world in fairy tales and songs, 1881
  • Children's songs (complete edition), 1882

As editor

literature

in order of appearance

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Nameless Leaves", Illustrated Newspaper for Art, Literature and Entertainment, No. 16, 1877.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 29/180.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Kletke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Kletke, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kletke, Gustav Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1886
Place of death Berlin