Johann Christian Hallmann

Johann Christian Hallmann (* around 1640 in Silesia ; † around 1716? In Vienna ) was a German playwright of the Baroque period .

Life

Hallmann attended the Maria Magdalenen High School in Breslau from 1647 to 1661 , from which many Silesian poets emerged . Here he already produced his first school drama. In 1662 he enrolled in Jena , where he studied law , especially constitutional law, until 1665 . He then returned to Breslau as a trainee in court, where he quickly gained a reputation as a playwright and occasional poet. It has been proven that his almost operatic dramas were performed often, especially on festive occasions. No less than 18 dramatic works by his hand are proven. Hallmann's last years are shrouded in darkness. After his conversion to Catholicism, he is said to have died in great poverty in Vienna.

Work edition

• Johann Christian Hallmann. Complete works , ed. Gerhard Spellerberg. Berlin 1975 ff.

literature

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johann Christian Hallmann . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1932-1945 (list of works and references)
• Gernot Uwe Gabel: Johann Christian Hallmann . Dissertation, Rice University Houston 1971
• Albert Klein:  Hallmann, Johann Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 564 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Kristine Krämer: Johann Christian Hallmann's "Grief, Joy and Shepherd Games". Dissertation, Free University of Berlin 1980
• Erik Lunding: The Silesian Art Drama . Copenhagen 1940
• Erich Schmidt :  Hallmann, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 444-447.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Christian Hallmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Johann Christian Hallmann in VD 17 .
• Works by Johann Christian Hallmann at Zeno.org .