Johann Gottfried Hagemeister

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Johann Gottfried Lucas Hagemeister (born January 13, 1762 in Greifswald , † August 4, 1806 in Anklam ) was a German actor, poet, publicist and teacher.

Life

The son of Lucas Friedrich Hagemeister (1731-1770), academic secretary in Greifswald, and Anna Katharina Unger attended the Greifswald city school , which was headed by Theophilus Coelestinus Piper at the time . Here he made friends with Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt and Andreas Christoph Niz , with whom he shared an interest in English and Romance literature. From 1779 he studied at the University of Greifswald . Inspired by the tragedies of William Shakespeare , he wrote plays for the student theater at the Schonenfahrercompagnie, which was founded by M. Raufseysen, and also appeared as an actor himself. In 1782 he went to the University of Halle where, in addition to studying history, aesthetics and the Hebrew language, he received musical training.

In 1784 he moved to Berlin , where he first taught in pension institutions, then from 1785 as a teacher of languages ​​and history at the Schindler orphanage . In 1788 he gave up this position and worked as a freelance writer. From Berlin he made trips to Hamburg , Kassel and Weimar . He wrote several dramatic poems and translated Shakespeare's Othello for the Royal National Theater . There, in 1791, his pieces “The Great Loos” and “Johann von Procida” were performed. Hagemeister published the magazine “Dramaturgisches Wochenblatt” in 1792 and, together with Georg Wilhelm Bartholdy, the enlightening journal for community spirit. He dealt with the events of the French Revolution in 1793 in his "Roman Poetry". He wrote lyrical poems in the style of the young Friedrich Schiller . He tended to be dissolute and had repeated financial problems.

Hagemeister left Berlin in 1793 and went via Kassel and Hamburg for some time to Demmin , where his friend Ahlwardt was a teacher at the city school at that time, and Greifswald. He then stayed for some time as a private tutor at the prepositus Georg Theodor Schwarz in Wiek on Rügen . There he got to know Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten and Ernst Moritz Arndt , among others . Later he became a doctor doctorate . In 1798 he was vice rector and in 1802 rector of the city school of Anklam. Alcohol and illness led to deterioration in health. In 1806 he died of emaciation.

The literary historian Heinrich Kurz counted Johann Gottfried Hagemeister among “the most popular playwrights of his time” and emphasized the quality of the plays “The Jesuit” and “Johann von Procida”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Elegy to September 9, 1786. 1786. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • The Jesuits. Drama, Berlin 1787
  • The prejudices and the touchstone. two plays, Berlin 1787
  • Merchant of London. 1789 (translation after George Lillo )
  • Kurt von Bassewitz or the rescued Kyritz. Berlin 1790.
  • John of Procida. Drama, Berlin 1791.
  • The great lot. ( The Lottery Lot. ), Comedy, Berlin 1791.
  • Dramaturgy for Berlin and Germany. 2nd vol. Berlin 1792.
  • Woldemar. Drama, Berlin 1793.
  • Roman seals. Berlin 1794.
  • The vow. Tragedy, Berlin 1795
  • The touchstone for artists. Drama, Berlin 1795.
  • The death of Pausanias. Tragedy, Berlin 1785.
  • Gustav Wasa. Berlin 1795 (new edition Berlin 1802).

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The year of death is given in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie as well as by the German National Library and the State Bibliography as 1806. In 1810 Johann Georg Meusel gave in Das schehre Teutschland. Vol. 14, p. 13 ( Google books ) on August 3, 1807 as the date of death.
  2. ^ Nils Jörn : Greifswalder, Rostocker, Bützower and Erlanger professors at the Wismar Tribunal . In: Dirk Alvermann , Jürgen Regge (Ed.): Justitia in Pommern . LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8218-7 , pp. 205 ff. ( Online ).
  3. ^ Albert Meier: dramaturgy of admiration. In: The West. Vol. 23, Vittorio Klostermann, 1993, ISBN 3-46502588-1 , pp. 359-362 ( Google books ).
  4. ^ Albert Leitzmann (ed.): Wilhelm von Humboldt's diaries. Vol. 15, Walter de Gruyter, 1968, p. 291 ( Google books ).
  5. ↑ Heinrich Kurz : History of German literature. With selected pieces from the works of the most excellent writers. Volume 3, Teubner, Leipzig 1859, p. 378 ( Google books ).

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personal data
SURNAME Hagemeister, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagemeister, Johann Gottfried Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, poet, publicist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1806
Place of death Anklam