Hippolyt August Schaufert

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Hippolyt August Schaufert

Hippolyt August Schaufert , (born March 5, 1834 in Winnweiler , † May 18, 1872 in Speyer ) was a German poet from the Palatinate .

Life

Hippolyt August Schaufert was the seventh child of the bailiff Johann Peter Schaufert and his wife Katharina geb. Eve.

After attending the local elementary school and taking private Latin lessons, Schaufert went to the Speyer Lyceum from 1847 to 1852 , then to Munich to study law. He completed an internship in Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken ; In 1859 he passed the state examination. Hippolyt August Schaufert then worked for the notaries' offices in Kusel , Wolfstein and Kaiserslautern , in 1864 he became police commissioner in Waldmohr , and in 1866 in Bad Dürkheim .

Here the official made friends with Eduard Jost , the later poet of the Palatinate song . Both were united by a love of poetry and Jost published Schaufert's first poems. During this time he wrote the local history comedy A Kiss at the Right Time or the Billy Goat by Lambrecht , which spontaneously became a great success. It was also published as a book in Munich in 1867. From May 1867 to January 1868 Hippolyt August Schaufert wrote a new comedy with the title Chess the King , as it was even more successful and prompted the poet to give up his current service as district court assessor in Germersheim to move to Vienna . There, the Burgtheater awarded his comedy a prize of 300 guilders, as the best piece of 197 entries. A serious historical drama entitled 1683 , on the siege of the Turks as its theme, was a failure.

Grave slab, Speyer old cemetery

In Vienna Hippolyt August Schaufert met the young Marie Görres (1851–1914). She was the daughter of Guido Görres and Maria Görres geb. Vespermann and the granddaughter of Joseph Görres . At that time her father had already died and she was living in the house of her stepfather Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg , who had married her widowed mother. Schaufert finally returned to the Bavarian civil service as a police commissioner in Germersheim and married Marie Görres there on January 7, 1871. The official wrote another tragedy entitled Father Brahm , which had some success in Berlin. The family moved to Speyer, where their daughter Marie Schaufert was born on December 18, 1871. The poet died of tuberculosis just a few months after his birth and was buried in the old cemetery in Speyer . His simple grave slab is there today in the separate cathedral chapter cemetery. The widow married the lawyer and politician Viktor von Fuchs in Vienna in 1874 .

The comedy Schach dem König was set to music as an operetta by Walter Wilhelm Goetze in 1935 . Victor Léon had made the libretto based on Schaufert's play.

Hippolyt August Schaufert's native comedy A kiss at the right time or the billy goat by Lambrecht was transferred to the Palatinate in 1990 by Bruno Hain under the title De werte Schmatz om rechts Platz .

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hippolyt August Schaufert  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on Lambrecht Customs, with reference to Schaufert's comedy
  2. ^ Heinz Wagner: Das große Operettenbuch, 1997, ISBN 3-932529-02-2 , page 86; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Robert Münster: Art Nouveau Music ?, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-88226-380-6 , page 122 Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Schaufert, Hippolyt August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnweiler
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1872
Place of death Speyer