Hyperion (Holderlin)
Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece is a novel by Friedrich Hölderlin .
The name Hyperion (Greek ῾Υπερίων Hyperíon , in German usually stressed on the third last syllable) means "the one who walks above".
Hyperion appeared in two volumes in 1797 and 1799. It is a lyrical epistolary novel, the external plot of which has only subordinate importance compared to the internal experiences and the flowing richness of feeling is captured in linguistic sound.
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Hyperion, who retrospectively tells his German friend Bellarmine about his life, grew up in the middle of the 18th century in southern Greece in the peace of nature. His wise teacher Adamas leads him into the heroic world of Plutarch , then into the magical land of the Greek gods and inspires him for the Greek past. His energetic friend Alabanda lets him in on the plans for the liberation of Greece . In Kalaurea he met Diotima . It gives him the strength to act. In 1770 he takes part in the Greek war of liberation against the Turks , the Ottoman War. However, the brutality of the war repels him. He is badly wounded, Alabanda has to flee, and Diotima dies. Hyperion goes to Germany, but life there becomes unbearable for him. Therefore he returns to Greece and lives there as a hermit . In his loneliness he finds himself in the beauty of the landscape and nature and overcomes the tragedy that lies in this loneliness.
features
The novel is a self-confession which, despite some adolescent, enthusiastic traits, brings to mind Holderlin's outlook on life and soul. The nature which is celebrated hymn in the final letters, is worshiped as the God-filled space. In the portrayal of Greece, past and future, dream and promise intermingle.
reception
Hyperion was included in the ZEIT library of 100 books and also in the ZEIT student library .
literature
- Manfred Engel : The novel of the Goethe era. Volume 1: Beginnings in Classical and Early Romanticism: Transcendental Stories. Metzler, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-476-00858-4 , pp. 321-380.
- Uwe Beyer : Mythology and Reason. Four philosophical studies on Friedrich Hölderlin. Series: Studies on German Literary History, 65. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993; Reprint ibid. 2012. ISBN 3-484-32065-6 . Also as an e-book
- Michael Knaupp: Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion. Reclam, Stuttgart 1997 (Universal Library, Explanations and Documents, 16008), ISBN 3-15-016008-1 (with bibliography)
- Jean Firges : Friedrich Hölderlin. Mourning for Diotima. Holderlin's Hyperion novel. Exemplary series of literature and philosophy. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2002, ISBN 3-933264-17-0 (with bibliography)
- Johannes Heinrichs : Revolution out of spirit and love. Hölderlin's “Hyperion” commented on throughout. Steno, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-954-449-311-0
- Pascal Firges: Eros in Hyperion. Platonic and Spinozist ideas in Hölderlin's novel. Kulturgeschichtliche Reihe, 11. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2010 ISBN 978-3-933264-61-9 (with bibliography)
- Gerda Brenning: Explanations of Friedrichs Hölderlin's “Hyperion” taking into account the early versions. Dr. Wilhelm König's Explanations of the Classics , 260–262. C. Bange, Hollfeld 1963
- not specified: Hyperion or the Hermit of Greece , in: Between Classical and Romantic. Ed. Collective for literary history, Günter Albrecht, Johannes Mittenzwei, Kurt Böttcher; Editor of the seven-part series of explanations on German literature (here Volume 4): Klaus Gysi . People and Knowledge , Berlin 1956, then each in chang. Ed .; last 1983, pp. 66-79.
Web links
- Hyperion in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Selected passages as audio book (approx. 10 min)
- Selected passages as an audio book (approx. 1 hour) at vorleser.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Michael Knaup (editor), Friedrich Hölderlin, Complete Works . Hanser Verlag, Munich – Vienna, 1993, vol. 3, p. 741
- ↑ Volume 1 as digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive , Volume 2 as digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive .
- ↑ The later edition 1970 without the reference to the early versions of Hyperion in the subtitle and only with row number. 260. All without ISBN