Joseph von Auffenberg

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Joseph von Auffenberg

Joseph Freiherr von Auffenberg (born August 25, 1798 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † December 25, 1857 there ) was a German playwright and poet .

Life

Joseph von Auffenberg studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1813 and took part in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 in Austrian service . Later von Auffenberg was a lieutenant in the Baden Guard in Karlsruhe .

His plays Pizarro and Die Spartaner were performed in Karlsruhe. The success inspired him to write more dramas. Auffenberg became a member of the court theater committee in 1822 and soon after became its president. In 1832 he undertook a trip to Spain that he described as a humorous pilgrimage to Granada and Cordoba , on which he was attacked by robbers near Valencia and survived seriously injured.

In 1839, Auffenberg was appointed court marshal of the Grand Duke of Baden .

Auffenberg lost all of his positions in 1849 due to a faux pas he had committed at a dinner for Grand Duke Leopold von Baden . Apparently he mimicked the Grand Duke while drunk behind his back, but was caught and suspended by him. Auffenberg then moved to his hometown Freiburg im Breisgau and lived with a servant in a house on Kaiserstraße (today's Kaiser-Joseph-Straße ). There have been many rumors about his life in recent years, as Auffenberg was seen wearing allegedly “defective clothing” in dirty inns - always accompanied by a black poodle. The assumption that Auffenberg was already impoverished during his lifetime was refuted after his death: he bequeathed 39,000 guilders to the hospital at Valencia del Cid, where he was nursed to health in 1832 after the robbery. He also bequeathed 1,000 guilders to his loyal companion of recent years, his poodle.

His grave is in the old cemetery in Freiburg . Next to the completely weathered tombstone, which was created by Josef Alois Knittel , there is a memorial that was created in 1965 by the Freiburg sculptor Eva Eisenlohr .

Works

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  • Wallas
  • The Flibustier
  • King Eric
  • The Syracusans
  • The sacrifice of Themistocles
  • Fergus Mac Ivor
  • The northern lights of Kazan
  • The lion of Kurdistan. A romantic play in 5 acts , based on Walter Scott's The Talisman . Etlinger, Würzburg 1827 ( digitized version )
  • Louis XI. in Péronne
  • The bad house
  • The sisters of Amiens
  • The Prophet of Florence and others remained in the repertoire for a few years.

The poem Alhambra (Karlsruhe 1829–30, 3 volumes) is not intended for the stage , an “epic in dramatic form”, not without fantasy, but without deeper life and without artistic measure.

A complete edition of his works appeared in 22 volumes (Siegen 1846; 3rd edition Wiesbaden 1855), a selection in 7 volumes (Wiesbaden 1850).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph von Auffenberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Betz: From the experiences and memories of an old officer , Karlsruhe 1894, p. 72ff.
  2. ^ Alfred Biehler: The grandfather: sculptor Josef Alois Knittel . In: Heinz Spath: sculptor Hugo Knittel , approx. 1956.
personal data
SURNAME Auffenberg, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auffenberg, Joseph Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1857
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau