Ignaz Franz Castelli

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Ignaz Franz Castelli, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1835

Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (born March 6, 1781 in Vienna ; † February 5, 1862 there ) was an Austrian poet and playwright . The order of his first names varies in literature. He also published under the pseudonyms brother Fatalis , Hohler , Kosmas , cosmos , Rosenfeld , CA silence .

Life

Castelli studied law , but soon devoted himself to literary work. With his war song for the Austrian army , which was distributed in large numbers to the Austrian soldiers, he was one of the first patriotic poets of the wars of liberation . By sending him to Hungary, the Austrian government brought him to safety from the pursuit of the French.

Ignaz Franz Castelli

From 1811 to 1814 Castelli was court theater poet at the Vienna Kärntnertortheater . Nothing of his 199 comedies has survived on stage , but his Singspiel libretti Die Schweizer Familie (1809) for Joseph Weigl and The Conspirators , composed by Franz Schubert , Georg Abraham Schneider and Franz de Paula Roser , achieved great popularity. Weigl and Schubert's operas have also been performed again in the present.

As the editor and employee of various periodicals in Vienna and in German-speaking countries, he contributed significantly to this (in partly pseudonymous and anonymous reports with author names such as "Brother Fatalis", "Kosmas", "Rosenfeld", "CA Stille" and "Höhler") to convey a specific image of Vienna. The best is likely to be his poems in Lower Austrian dialect (Vienna, 1828), with which he inspired Austrian dialect poetry ( Johann Gabriel Seidl , Franz Stelzhamer , Carl Adam Kaltenbrunner ). In 1819 he founded the Ludlamshöhle literary society . He had contact with numerous famous writers and artists of his time and was a. a. friends with Moritz Gottlieb Saphir and Antonio Salieri .

His conflict-shy, peaceful temperament, which earned him great popularity with writer friends and colleagues and just as popular with the public, is reflected in his memoirs, which have been reprinted many times under the title From the life of a Viennese Phäaken and Schiller's ironic word about the "Phäakenstadt" , coined on Vienna, as a city of well-being.

Ludwig van Beethoven , with whom he attended the farewell dinner for the publisher Maurice Schlesinger on September 26, 1825 , also belonged to his circle of friends .

In 1846 he was a co-founder of the Lower Austrian Association against the Abuse of Animals in Vienna , which still exists today as the Vienna Animal Welfare Association .

Ignaz Franz Castelli died on February 5, 1862 at the age of 81 in Vienna. His grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gr. 0, R 1, No. 18).

In 1874 the Castelligasse in Vienna- Margareten (5th district) was named after him.

Works (selection)

Grave of Ignaz Franz Castelli
  • The Swiss Family , 1809 (Singspiel)
  • New Wehrmanns-Lieder , 1813
  • Aubry's Hound , 1816 (drama)
  • The Orphan and the Murderer , 1819 (drama)
  • 100 Fables in Four Verses , 1822
  • The Husband as Lover or the Lover as Husband , 1823 (comedy)
  • The Conspirators , 1823 (Singspiel)
  • Poems in Lower Austrian dialect , 1828
  • Viennese Life Pictures (derbhumoristic sketch poem) , 1828
  • One for the other , 1830 (comedy)
  • Uniform and dressing gown , 1831 (comedy)
  • The partition , 1833 (comedy)
  • Memoirs of my Life , 4 volumes, 1861
  • Saint Martin
  • From the life of a Viennese Phäaken 1781-1862. The memoirs of I. F. Castelli, re-edited by Adolf Saager (memoir library, IV. Series, eighth volume). Verlag von Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912 ( digitized 2nd edition in the Internet Archive )

literature

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Franz Castelli  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ignaz Franz Castelli  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. TG Waidelich: "He should open his mouth", Schubert in the "Diary from Vienna" of the Dresden "Abend-Zeitung" by Ignaz Franz Castelli . In: Schubert through the glasses 18 (1997), pp. 25-40.
  2. ↑ Birgit Scholz: Biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 to 1862). Zs LiTheS of the University of Graz, German Institute, 2008, on the Internet biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (1781 to 1862) and biography of Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (PDF) accessed on June 4, 2015
  3. ↑ From the life of a Viennese Phäaken 1781-1862. The IF Castelli memoirs . Reissued by Adolf Saager, 2nd edition, Verlag Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1927. Made available online and for download in facsimile from the Library of the University of Toronto, Ignaz Franz Castelli, accessed on July 4th 2014. In this edition, the text of the original edition from 1861 has been rearranged chronologically with abbreviations of the irrelevant and some repetitions, cf. Saager's introduction, p. 20.
  4. ↑ In Schiller's distich “Danube in **” Vienna is concealed: The people of the Phaiacs live around me with a shining eye: / It's always Sunday, the tables are always turning on the stove (quoted from the complete edition, 1st volume, Zahme Xenien )
  5. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 181-183.
  6. ↑ viennatouristguide.at
personal data
SURNAME Castelli, Ignaz Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castelli, Ignaz Vinzenz Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1862
Place of death Vienna