Hermann Kurz

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Hermann Kurz; Lithograph by G. Engelbach, 1843.
Birthplace in Reutlingen
Hermann Kurz, after a photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl , 1863
Hermann Kurz Memorial in Oberesslingen-Gartenstadt (district of Esslingen am Neckar )
The family of his grandfather Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm
Statue of a muse on the tomb in Tübingen

Hermann Kurz (born November 30, 1813 in Reutlingen , † October 10, 1873 in Tübingen ) was a German writer from the Swabian school of poets , journalist and translator . He is one of the founders of historical, realistic and social storytelling in the German Vormärz. He is the father of the medical doctor and poet Edgar Kurz , the writer Isolde Kurz and the sculptor Erwin Kurz .

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He was born as Hermann Kurtz, but modernized his name in 1848. His parents died early. After completing the Württemberg state examination , he attended the Protestant theological seminar in Maulbronn and then studied at the Protestant monastery in Tübingen . During his studies he joined the fraternity of Patriots in 1831 . After his theological exam in 1835, he worked as a vicar in Ehningen for a few months , but then moved to Stuttgart , where he lived as a freelance writer and translator.

There he met Eduard Mörike , Justinus Kerner and Gustav Schwab , among others . In 1848 he became an employee of the German family book for instruction and entertainment in Karlsruhe and editor of the Democratic Observer in Stuttgart.

In 1851, Kurz had to serve three weeks' imprisonment on the Hohenasperg as a punishment for an improper article . He then married Marie Freiin von Brunnow , a great-great-grandniece of the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , who had become groundbreaking in his social utopia Die Güldene Zeit (1759–1761) by pleading for more freedom, equality and humanity . The couple had four sons: Edgar, Erwin, Alfred and Balde and their daughter Isolde. In 1856 Kurz withdrew from public life and first moved (1858) to Oberesslingen , where the family had bought an estate, in 1863 to Kirchheim unter Teck and then to Tübingen, where he became a librarian at the University of Tübingen . In 1865 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock .

At the inauguration of the Uhland monument in Tübingen , he suffered a sunstroke from which he did not recover and as a result of which he died on October 10, 1873. He was buried in the Tübingen city cemetery.

Works (selection)

Poetry and prose

  • Faust's coat ride. A small collection of epigrams. Along with an appendix of old epigrams by Owenius, Tübingen 1834.
  • Poems. Stuttgart 1836.
  • Gentians. A bouquet of novellas. Stuttgart 1837.
  • Seals. Pforzheim 1839.
  • Schiller's home years. Patriotic novel. Stuttgart 1843.
  • The sun host. Swabian folk history from the previous century. Frankfurt 1856.
  • The Christmas find. A picture of the soul from Swabian folk life. Frankfurt 1856.
  • Stories. 3 vol., Stuttgart 1858–1861.
  • On Shakespeare's life and work. Old and new, Munich 1868.
  • From the days of shame. Historical images from the Melacs period. Stuttgart 1871.
  • Falstaff and his journeymen. By Paul Konewka. Text by Hermann Kurz, Strasbourg n.d. [1871]
  • The two tubes . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 18. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 149-277. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Lisardo. Roman, ed. and with an afterword by Heinz Kindermann, Stuttgart 1919.

Translations

  • Selected poems by Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott and others in German translations, Reutlingen 1834.
  • The alleged aunt. Postponed student novella by Cervantes, Stuttgart 1836.
  • Spirit of Judaism. Translated from the English (des d'Israeli, father), Stuttgart 1836.
  • Ariost's raging Roland. 3 vol., Stuttgart and Pforzheim 1840–1841.
  • Captain Marryat. Japhet, who is looking for a father, Stuttgart 1843.
  • Tristan and Isolde. Poem by Gottfried von Strasbourg. Transferred and decided by Hermann Kurtz, Stuttgart 1844.
  • Thomas Moore's Paradise and the Peri. With an appendix of Byronian songs. For friends of poetry by Hermann Kurtz, Stuttgart 1844.
  • Chateaubriand. Spirit of Christianity, Ulm 1844.
  • Chateaubriand's selected works. 12 vols., Ulm 1844-1846.
  • William Shakespeare. The merry women of Windsor, Leipzig 1867.
  • Cervantes' Nine Interludes, Hildburghausen 1868.

Essays

  • The adventures of the Simplicissimus. A novel from the time of the Thirty Years War. Eduard von Bülow. Leipzig Brockhaus. 1836. [Review], in: Der Spiegel. Journal of Literary Entertainment and Criticism 5–6 (1837).
  • The questions of the present and the free word. Voting of a poet in political affairs, Ulm 1845.
  • If you like. The fight with the dragon. A knight and magic tale. For the good of the Tristan singer and Tristan critic, Mr. Oswald Marbach, with glosses in New, Middle and Old High German that are understandable to the world. Given in Karlsruhe on November 30, 1844, Stuttgart and Cannstatt in 1845.
  • Historical and artistic explanations of L. Weißer's picture atlas for world history, Stuttgart 1864.
  • With Paul Heyse : Introduction . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 1. Munich, [1871], pp. V – XXIV. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

Editorships

  • The angry life and terrible end of the notorious arch-black artist Johannes Fausti. First carefully described many years ago by Georg Rudolph Widmann: later overlooked and re-edited by Ch. Nikolaus Pfitzer, Med. D. Nürnb. A. 1647. Now published again and decorated with 16 woodcuts, Reutlingen 1834.
  • German novella treasure . Vol. 1-18, ed. by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz, Munich 1870–1874.
  • Novel treasure from abroad. Vol. 1-10, ed. by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz, Munich 1872–1874.

Letters

  • Hermann Fischer: Hermann Kurz in his letters to Gustav Schwab, in: Special supplement to the Staats-Anzeiger für Württemberg 1908, pp. 1–10, 42–49.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz in his youth. Based on unprinted letters, in: Süddeutsche Monatshefte 3 (1906), pp. 56–67, 246–255, 388–402, 499–514, 620–632.
  • Ders .: The wandering years of a poet, in: Süddeutsche Monatshefte 5 (1908), pp. 571-577.
  • Heinz Kindermann (ed.): Correspondence between Hermann Kurz and Eduard Mörike, ed. by Heinz Kindermann, Stuttgart 1919. (Parallel edition: Jakob Baechtold (Ed.), Stuttgart 1885)

Editions (selection)

Work editions

  • Collected Works. With a biography of the poet, ed. v. Paul Heyse, 10 vols., Stuttgart 1874
  • All works in twelve volumes, ed. u. a. by Hermann Fischer, Leipzig 1904

Reprints

  • The sun host. Swabian folk history. Jürgen Schweier, Kirchheim unter Teck 1980, ISBN 3-921829-07-0
  • Schiller's home years. The walks of Heinrich Roller. Jürgen Schweier, Kirchheim 1986, ISBN 3-921829-22-4
  • The angry life and terrible end of the notorious ore black artist Johannis Fausti. After the editions by G. R. Widmann and J. N. Pfitzer, re-edited by Hermann Kurz. Facsimile print of the edition from 1834 for the 900th anniversary of the first documented mention of the city of Reutlingen. Reissued, epilogue and explanations of words by Bernd Mahl. Jürgen Schweier, Kirchheim 1990, ISBN 3-921829-29-1
  • Mountain fairy tale. Adventure in the home & the love of the mountains. Jürgen Schweier, Kirchheim 1999, ISBN 3-921829-35-6
  • Werner Ströbele (Ed.): "The Freye Word." A democratic pamphlet , by Hermann Kurz. Foreword by Heribert Prantl ; Follow-up by Ed. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86351-073-2

Literature (selection)

  • Otto Borst : The Reichsstädter Hermann Kurz. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series 50 (1958/59), pp. 62–69.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz. Poet and translator, literary historian and political writer. In: Max Miller, Robert Uhland (ed.): Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia, Volume 8 (=  Swabian Life Pictures, Vol. 8). Stuttgart 1962, pp. 212-254.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz. In: The secret rebels. Swabian heads from five centuries. Stuttgart 1980, pp. 209-229.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 3: I – L. Heidelberg 1999, pp. 210-211.
  • Hermann Fischer: In  short, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 425 f.
  • Peter Härtling : An unredeemed legacy. Speech at the opening of the Herman Kurz exhibition, Reutlingen 1988. Kirchheim 1988.
  • Jörg Jungmayr : Hermann Kurz and Gottfried von Strasbourg. In: Ingrid Kühn, Gotthard Lerchner (ed.): From wyssheit der Mensch geert… Frankfurt 1993, pp. 291-320.
  • Mite Kiemnitz: Also a forty-eight . In: Das Blaubuch 1, 1906, pp. 1809–1814.
  • Heinz Kindermann : Hermann Kurz in his early days. Diss. Phil. University of Vienna 1918, Mskr.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz and the German Art of Translation in the 19th Century. Literary historical investigation. Stuttgart 1918.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz as a literary historian. A contribution to the intellectual history of the 19th century. In: Walther Steller (Ed.): Festschrift Theodor Siebs for his 70th birthday. Breslau 1933, pp. 323-353.
  • Ders .: Hermann Kurz and his ballads. In: 21st report of the Swabian Schiller Association (1917/18), pp. 32–42.
  • Stefan Knödler (Ed.): Hermann Kurz (1813-1878). The blue genius , Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2016 (Euphorion, supplements, volume 97), ISBN 978-3-8253-6671-1 .
  • Tilman Krause : The other German tradition. Hermann Kurz's educational novel Schiller's Heimatjahre - a land register of spaciousness and belief in this world. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series 45 (2006), pp. 121-138.
  • Rudolf Krauss : Hermann Kurz. In: ders .: Schwäbische Literaturgeschichte, Vol. 2. Freiburg 1899, pp. 262–270, reprint Kirchheim 1975.
  • Friedrich Kürnberger: Hermann Kurz in his main fonts. In: ders .: Literary punishment with Hermann Kurz. In: Monika Dimpfl, Georg Jäger (Ed.): Social history of German literature in the 19th century. Part 2. Tübingen 1990, pp. 25-84.
  • Isolde Kurz : Hermann Kurz. A contribution to his life story. Munich / Leipzig 1906.
  • Fritz Martini: In  short, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 329-332 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Müller: Hermann Kurz. In: pen heads. Swabian ancestors of the German spirit from the Tübingen monastery . With contributions by Hermann and Theodor Haering . Heilbronn 1938, pp. 357-365.
  • Georg Schwarz : The eternal trace. Poet profiles of a German tribe. Piper, Munich 1946 pp. 109–114 (2nd edition, ibid. 1949 with the subtitle: Schwäbische Dichterprofile aus einer Millennium ).
  • Matthias Slunitschek: Hermann Kurz and the 'Poetry of Reality'. Studies of his early work, texts from the estate . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-054323-0 (full text: degruyter.com ).
  • Werner Ströbele (Ed.): "I fell between the ages". Hermann Kurz - writer of realism, editor of the revolution, translator and literary historian. Reutlingen 1988 (= catalog for the 175th birthday, Reutlingen City Museum).
  • Emil Sulger-Gebing: Hermann Kurz a German folk poet. A characteristic, along with a bibliography of his writings. Berlin 1904.
  • Bonaventura Tecchi : Hermann Kurz. In: ders .: Svevi Minori. Rome 1975, pp. 53-129.
  • Gert Ueding : “What is it that hurts, lies, steals and murders in us?” The narrator Hermann Kurz. In: Suevica. Contributions to Swabian literary and intellectual history 6 (1991), pp. 39–58.

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Kurz  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Hermann Kurz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Slunitschek: Hermann Kurz and the 'Poetry of Reality'. Studies on early works, texts from the estate (=  studies on German literary history . Volume 150 ). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, ISBN 978-3-11-054323-0 ( degruyter.com ).
  2. ↑ Julius Baum (ed.): The Stuttgart art of the present. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1913, p. 212.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Stadelmaier : But I tell you, censorship is not German! Big scene of a preaching democrat: "The Freye Word" on the pulpit stage of Hermann Kurz . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Why Karl Marx scolded Isolde Kurz. Tagblatt, January 7, 2011.
  5. ^ Uhland memorial on TÜpedia.
personal data
SURNAME In short, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1873
Place of death Tübingen