Kösener bird pastures

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Karl August Koberstein, center and head of the Kösener bird pastures
Reinhold Köhler, literary historian and secretary of the Vogelweiden

The Kösener Vogelweide were summer meetings of Karl August Koberstein , Reinhold Köhler and other young Germanists from the university cities of Jena, Leipzig, Halle and Weimar in Kösen between 1852 and 1868.

Foundation of the association

The establishment of the association had Franz Pfeiffer , author of the first systematic history of literature in Germany encouraged. The name giver and occasion was the poet of the German Middle Ages Walther von der Vogelweide , whose work and works the association researched. Franz Pfeiffer published several works about him, including his 1869 About Walther von der Vogelweide .

The members of the association met several times a year in summer in Kösen to the so-called bird pastures . The conference location Kösen with its romantic castles, the Rudelsburg and the Saaleck Castle had become popular in the first half of the 19th century because it was outside the surrounding Ernestine duchies , but still central and easily accessible via the Thuringian Railway in Prussia . Koberstein himself had been involved in the conservative camp in 1848 and was chairman of the constitutional association in Naumburg. As such, he had chaired the people's assembly in Kösen in July 1848 in the Buchenhalle as conference president .

Members

Members of the Kösener Vogelweide included the aforementioned Rudolf Hildebrand , August Schleicher , Fedor Bech , Josef Anton Henne , Karl Lucae , Reinhold Bechstein , Robert Boxberger , Karl Regel, Groddeck, Hügel, Jungmann, Moritz Heyne , Ernst Kuhn, Fritz Lippold, Hugo Weber, Eugen Wilhelm and August Witzschel .

The literary historian Koberstein worked from 1820 until his death in 1870 as a teacher at the Pforta State School in Schulpforte near Kösen.

“He came into correspondence with Grimm , Lachmann and other masters of the field and gradually assumed a leading role in the field of literary history himself. On the summer "bird pastures" at Kösen he was the center of a group of Germanists from Halle, Leipzig, Jena and Weimar. "

- Erich Schmidt in ADB: Koberstein p. 363

In the past few years, Koberstein was the club's age president. He was the maternal grandfather of the psychosomaticist Georg Groddeck from Kösen and one of the teachers of Friedrich Nietzsche and Johannes Lepsius at the Pforta State School .

Reinhold Köhler acted as secretary of the association from 1856 and lived for this purpose. His circular letters to the members are preserved in the archive database of the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar.

“He was very closely connected with his Weimar. The best son and brother, he lived with his mother and two sisters - the other two had died young - in a very simple, comfortable apartment on Graben. Regular walks and a snack in the "relaxation" interrupted the daily routine; a few short weeks of vacation in Ilmenau or Friedrichroda, excursions to the Kösener "Vogelweide" with Koberstein and younger German scholars, the repeated participation in philologist meetings his uniform years. "

- Erich Schmidt: ADB: Köhler, Reinhold p. 317

The Kösener Vogelweiden clung to the person of Koberstein, whom the member Karl Bartsch called the patriarchal center , and with the weakening of his strength they ceased to exist.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name seems to have been given only in 1865, then Hildebrandt wrote in a letter of October 17, 1865 that the company had now also been baptized .
  2. ^ What the wording of this year's last bird pasture suggests in Hildebrandt's correspondence . In the obituary for Reinhold Köhler , on the other hand, his participation in bird pastures every Sunday in summer is even mentioned.
  3. ^ Edward Schröder:  Lucae, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 111-113.
  4. ↑ H [ugo] Weber: About the lessons in old German in high schools , in:. Magazine for the German lessons, the first year of birth, 1887, p 194 (Weber was a guest of bird pastures and later head of the high school Eisenach).
  5. ^ "Vogelweide" 26 Bl 4 circular letters from Reinhold Köhler to the members of the "Vogelweide", ... including: Telegram from Karl Lucae to Dr. Karl Groddeck, Kösen, 1868 1 sheet.
  6. ^ Karl Bartsch: Drei deutsche Litterarhistoriker , in: Germania (= quarterly journal for German antiquity), 16th year, 1871, p. 109-120 (quote p. 112)