Johannes Nefflen

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Johannes Nefflen (born November 5, 1789 in Oberstenfeld , † January 6, 1858 in Cumberland , Allegany County , Maryland ) was a Swabian writer and satirist who criticized the social conditions in the Kingdom of Württemberg in plays .

Life

Johannes Nefflen was born the son of a cooper in Oberstenfeld. After the father died early, the mother married the schoolmaster Elsässer. The young Nefflen was sent to higher education institutions in Esslingen am Neckar and Stuttgart .

Nefflen later completed an apprenticeship as a clerk and in 1815 became an official substitute in Murr and Pleidelsheim . In 1821 the government installed him as mayor in Pleidelsheim. In 1836 Johannes Nefflen gave up the mayor's office and bought the Gasthaus Krone in Hessental near Schwäbisch Hall . From 1833 to 1836 he also worked as a delegate in the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies . Because of his political views, the now writer was sentenced to imprisonment on the Hohenasperg near Ludwigsburg in 1837 , where he served a total of 20 months until 1840. When his wife died in 1842, Nefflen sold the inn and the associated estate in Hessental, moved to Hall and worked there as editor of the weekly and intelligence newspaper . Only one year later he took over a commission business in Heilbronn . As the founder and head of the Democratic Association, Nefflen was persecuted again and fled to Strasbourg in 1848 . From there he emigrated to the United States to live with his son in Cumberland , County Allegany / Maryland. Nefflen died there on January 6, 1858 at the age of 68.

Alongside Gottlieb Friedrich Wagner and Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Johannes Nefflen is one of the most important Württemberg satirists of the 19th century.

Publications

  • The cousin from Swabia. Swabian Customs and Swabian Pranks, taken from life , 1837 ( digital version )
  • The Coburg six. A most gruesome incident in the nineteenth century , 1840
  • Poems for the People , 1841
  • The organ maker from Freudental in his good camaraderie with his cousin from Swabia , 1845 digitized

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