Johann Friedrich child

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Johann Friedrich child
Friedrich Kind's grave in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden

Friedrich Kind (born March 4, 1768 in Leipzig , † June 24, 1843 in Dresden ; baptismal name Johann Friedrich Kind ) was a German writer .

Life

Friedrich Kind's father was a judge and councilor of Leipzig. There Friedrich attended the Thomas School together with his classmate August Apel , who later wrote the Freischütz novella in the Ghost Book . This story became the basis for the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber .

Kind studied philosophy and law at the university. From 1789 he worked at the justice office in Delitzsch . He founded a private theater there, in which he also played, and was also an editor and journalist.

In 1792 he went to Dresden as a lawyer, but from 1814 he only devoted himself to writing. Friedrich Kind became world famous as the author of the libretto for the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. But he also wrote the play The Night Camp in Granada , which was the model for Conradin Kreutzer 's opera of the same name.

Kind was a founding member of the Dresdner Liederkreis , which emerged from the Dresdner Dichter-Tee. From 1814 onwards, it took place every week, then every two weeks on Fridays with the participants.

In 1818 the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha gave Friedrich Kind the title of Hofrat .

Friedrich Kind died in Dresden on June 24, 1843 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery.

Works (selection)

Chosen Conversations, Vienna 1827 (title page)

Full list of digitized items on Wikisource

  • Carlo (1801)
  • Tulips (1807)
  • Poems (1808)
  • The Ghost (1814), online
  • Van Dyks Country Life (1817)
  • The vineyard on the Elbe (1817)
  • The night camp of Granada (1818)
  • Der Freischütz (1821), online (libretto English / German)
  • Recent poems (1825), online
  • Chosen Conversations , Vienna 1827

literature

  • Joseph Kürschner :  Child, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 742 f.
  • Wilhelm Pfannkuch:  child, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hermann A. Krüger: Pseudo-romanticism. Friedrich Kind and the Dresdner Liederkreis . Leipzig, H. Haessel , 1904
  • Joachim Reiber : Preservation and Probation. The libretto to Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz in the literary life of his time. Munich: Ludwig 1990
  • Solveig Schreiter (Ed.): Friedrich Kind. Carl Maria von Weber. The Freischütz. Critical textbook edition. (= Opera libretti - critically edited. Ed. By Irmlind Capelle and Joachim Veit ), Munich: alliteraverlag 2007.
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: “I don't want to do it like Carl Maria once did” Conradin Kreutzer , Weber , Meyerbeer and Friedrich Kind , in: Weberiana 21 (2011), pp. 57–99.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Friedrich Kind  - Sources and full texts
Wikiquote: Johann Friedrich Kind  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Schulze to Apel dated January 12, 1815 .
  2. ^ Weber complete edition of Dresdner Dichter-Tee .
  3. ↑ CM v. Weber's Diary 1817 by 22.1., 5.2., Etc. .
personal data
SURNAME Child, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Child, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1843
Place of death Dresden