Johann Christian Trömer

Johann Christian Trömer alias Jean Chretien Toucement

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Especially for "entertaining French-German dialect poet", "in German-French dialect", "in dialect".
(Instead of vernacular / dialect would also be high German + French accent (debate) conceivable In. Encyclopedia of German national literature or biographical-critical Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the earliest times, along with samples from their works . Edited and published by Dr. Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff. Seventh volume Schmauss bis Z (Leipzig, 1842, p. 395ff. Under the heading "Johann Christian Trömer") it says, among other things, "wrote Tr. [= Trömmer] in a mishmash of French and German, as roughly one French would speak "which sounds like an accent and not a dialect.)

Johann Christian Trömer (also Jean Chrétien Toucement ; * 1697 in Dresden ; † May 1, 1756 in Dresden) was an entertaining Franco-German dialect poet at the court of Augustus the Strong .

Life

Trömer is the historical archetype of the "German-French", whom Gotthold Ephraim Lessing helped to immortality in the Minna von Barnhelm . Although he was born in Dresden, next to nothing is known about his youth. Apparently he was the son of a French soldier in the Saxon service. Although he had almost no formal schooling, he worked in several bookstores, where he was able to acquire some knowledge of the world by self-taught. He hired himself as a valet at the Saxon court in Weißenfels early on , but soon came back to his native Dresden, where his first literary hit, Ehn curieuse Brief , made him a popular figure at the court of Augustus the Strong in 1728 .

From now on he remained permanently at the Dresden court, admittedly only in a subordinate position in the servants, but was always “there” everywhere, even when traveling. In a constant style, in comical Alexandrians in the German-French dialect, he constantly contributes to the entertainment of court society. After every courtyard festival, every hunt, every state visit, the funny "German-French" reports the events, as pure commentary without comment, without any picaresque criticism. His comedy lies solely in the dialect . There are almost a hundred individual prints of these popular poems, as well as several opulently illustrated contemporary complete editions.

Collected Writings

• Jean Chretien Toucement Deusch Francos Schrifften with a lot of nice Kuffer piece Kanss Complett. Nuremberg 1772 (last, most complete of the five collective editions)

List of works and references

• Johann Christian Trömer (1697-1756) . In: Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque . Volume 6: Speer - Zincgref. The registers (= Hiersemann's bibliographical handbooks 9, 6). 2nd improved and significantly increased edition. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7772-9305-9 , pp. 4083-4102.

Literature (selection)

• Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff : Encyclopedia of German National Literature or biographical-critical lexicon of German poets and prose writers since the earliest times; along with samples from their works . Volume 7, Leipzig 1842, p. 395ff.
• Erich Schmidt :  Trömer, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 636-639.
• Hans Beschorner: New Archive for Saxon History . Descriptions ... of the Zeithainer camp from 1730. Volume 27 , 1906, pp. 87-151 .
• Franz Weinitz : The "Deutsch-Francoss" Jean Chrétien Toucements description of Berlin from the year 1730 . Berlin 1900.
• I. Altgrimm-Fiala: Description of the birthday party of August the Strong, at which Johann Sebastian Bach presented a tribute music . Vienna 1954.

• Katharina Middell: The "German-French" , in: Thomas Höpel (ed.), Pictures of Germany - Pictures of France, 1700-1850. Reception and demarcation of two cultures (University of Leipzig, Publications of the France Center, 6), Leipzig 2001, pp. 199-220.