Karl August von Heigel

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Karl August von Heigel

Karl August Heigel , since 1881 Ritter von Heigel , (born March 25, 1835 in Munich , † September 6, 1905 in Riva del Garda ) was a Bavarian librarian , biographer , playwright and storyteller.

Life

He was the son of the Munich actor Klemens August Heigel (1792-1849) and the court orchestra singer Helena, born Nössner (occasionally written as Nessner). His brother was the historian Karl Theodor Heigel . After the father's suicide, the brothers grew up with their mother.

Karl August Heigel first attended the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich , transferred to the upper class of the Maximiliansgymnasium in the school year 1853/54 , where he passed the final exams for the Abitur. He then studied philosophy at the University of Munich until 1858 and subsequently took a position as a librarian with Prince Heinrich zu Carolath-Beuthen in Upper Silesia . His area of ​​responsibility also included accompanying the Prince's nephew, Karl zu Carolath-Beuthen , on his Grand Tour through Europe, which meant that he was to a certain extent both tutor and tour guide functions for the Prince, who was still underage. After the Prince's death in 1864, Heigel took up residence in Berlin , where from 1865 he took over the editing of the fiction section of what was then the women's magazine Bazar .

Closer relationships existed with Hans von Bülow and his wife Cosima , who later became Richard Wagner's wife .

After 1875 Heigel lived alternately in Munich, Italy and Tyrol . In this phase he worked - in addition to his writing - almost exclusively for King Ludwig II of Bavaria , on whose behalf he wrote various dramas for his private theater productions. Because of these services, the King awarded him the Order of Merit of St. Michael 1st Class in 1876 and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1880 . With the award, the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Heigel after his entry in the nobility register in 1881 . In Munich he joined the group of poets “ The Crocodiles ”, which included Felix Dahn , Emanuel Geibel and Hermann Lingg . After the death of King Ludwig II, he took up residence in Palazzo Martini in Riva on Lake Garda in 1886 , where he died on September 6, 1905.

Karl August Heigel had been friends with Hans von Hopfen and Felix Dahn since his youth, and later also with the musician Werner Rhenius (* 1853) in Berlin. His first marriage was Rosalie Wichera (* 1846 Komotau, Bohemia), who died in 1893. In 1896 he entered into a second marriage with the goldsmith Thekla Antonia Dittmann, née Gerstmann (* 1844), which was soon divorced. In 1904, shortly before his death, he married Klara Johanna Friedenthal, née Schmidt (* 1853 in Breslau).

plant

With his works on Karl Stieler ( Karl Stieler. A contribution to his life story , 1890) and King Ludwig ( King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a contribution to his life story , 1892) he wrote two of his numerous historical novels , short stories and short stories Biographies and a Collection of Essays on Modern History ( Essays from Modern History , 1892).

Today, some of Heigel's works with local references to Bavaria are considered sources for the investigation of folk and landscape- related literature against the historical and social background of the respective historical-literary village history.

Autographs

  • Letter to Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), Berlin, June 29, 1868: German Literature Archive Marbach, Neckar / Manuscript Department.
  • Letter with signature, Riva, 14. I. 1903. To Maximilian Harden with the sending of his novel “Brömmels Glück und Ende”.

Publications

Poems, novels and short stories

  • Bar Còchba, the last king of the Jews. Epic poem, 1856.
  • Walpurg. A story from the time of Max Emanuel , novella. Commissioned by King Maximilian II of Bavaria. Hanover 1859. 1903: Revision with a new title: Im Isar Valley .
  • The forger's daughter . In: The Gazebo . Issue 1–5, 1863, pp. 1-4, 17-20, 33-36, 49-52, 66-69 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Novellas. Berlin 1866.
  • It's raining. A Munich story. Lesser, Berlin 1868.
  • The woman majorin [changed in the director's book: Des Kriegers Frau ], scene from the present. Berlin 1870.
  • Without conscience. Paetel, Berlin 1871.
  • New novellas. Berlin 1872.
  • The lady without a heart. Berlin 1873.
  • Where?! Berlin 1873.
  • The diplomat. Stuttgart 1874.
  • Benedictus. Novel. Günther, Leipzig 1875.
  • Esther (The performance of Racine's tragedy “Esther” in Saint Cyr. Completion of a manuscript by Franz Grillparzer; commissioned by King Ludwig II), Berlin, around 1875.
  • New stories. Leipzig 1876.
  • The eternal light. Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig undated [1877]
  • Latest novels. Brunswick 1878.
  • The theater devil. Leipzig 1878; Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig 1921.
  • The veranda on Lake Garda. Leipzig 1879.
  • The Venice Carnival. Stuttgart 1880.
  • Serious and cheerful stories (The Sangesbruder. - The friend of Tiber. - She speculates. - The Hansei is on strike. - Timon von Tarsus. - The diplomat from Rumpolzkirchen. - Schweninger). Paetel Brothers, Berlin 1887.
  • The way to heaven. Munich 1889.
  • Karl Stieler. A contribution to his life story. In addition to 12 previously unprinted youth poems. Drawings by K. Th. Meyer, Buchner, Bamberg 1890 ( digitized ).
  • The pure gate. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1890.
  • The King's Secret. Berlin 1891.
  • Essays from recent history. Buchner, Bamberg 1892 ( digitized version ).
  • Baroness Müller. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1893.
  • King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a contribution to his life story. Bonz, Stuttgart 1893.
  • The singer. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1895.
  • The popular friend. Stuttgart 1896.
  • The station chief. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1897.
  • The novel of a city. Berlin 1898.
  • On the blue Lake Garda. Leipzig 1899.
  • World despiser. Leipzig 1899.
  • The Maharajah. Dresden 1900.
  • The new saints. Potsdam 1901.
  • Brommel's happiness and end. Munich 1902.
  • At the Isar valley. Dresden 1902.
  • World despiser. Novelle, Hilger, Berlin / Leipzig 1908, NA 1929.
  • Luck. Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig 1922.
  • The nervous woman. A. Weichert, Berlin 1928.

Dramas

  • Marfa. Drama in five acts. Tragedy; written for Fanny Janauschek . Kolbe, Berlin, 1862; Reclams Universal Library, Leipzig 1876. Listed in revision with the title Die Zarin .
  • Friends. Leipzig 1876.
  • The tsarina. Munich 1898.

literature

  • Julius Rodenberg (ed.): Deutsche Rundschau . Volume 12, July – September 1877, Gebrüder Paetel, Berlin 1877, p. 145: Timon von Tarsus. A study .
  • Felix Dahn : Memories , Volume 3. Leipzig 1892, p. 124.
  • (Karl August von Heigel: about his work for Ludwig II.). In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly sheets , October 1899.
  • M. Wallberg. In: Illustrirte Zeitung , No. 124, JJ Weber, Leipzig 1905, p. 442 (photo).
  • Allgemeine Zeitung , 1905, supplement 3, p. 472.
  • The week : Modern illustrated magazine. August Scherl, Berlin 1905, p. 1600 (photo).
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): New Theater Almanach . Theater history year and address book. 17th year, 1906.
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume 10, List of Dead 1905. Berlin, Reimer 1907.
  • A (lois). Dreyer: Heigel, Karl August, poet . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume 11. Reimer, Berlin 1908, pp. 308-314.
  • Franz Brümmer (Ed.): Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 5, 2, Leipzig 1913, pp. 117, 498.
  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): The Catholic Germany. Biographical-Bibliographical Lexicon . Haas & Grabherr's Literary Institute, Augsburg 1933.
  • Bavarian library. Texts from twelve centuries. Volume IV and V. 1980 and 1981.
  • German Literature Lexicon. 3. Edition. Francke, Bern, Munich, Stuttgart 1968ff.
  • Peter Geils, Willi Gorzny (ed.): Complete directory of German-language literature (GV). 1700-1910. Saur, Munich a. a. 1979.
  • Arthur Luther : German history in a German story. A literary lexicon. 2nd Edition. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1943.
  • Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich. Biographies from eight centuries . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, p. 244.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl August von Heigel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Schöne:  Heigel, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 255 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Annual report on the Königliche Ludwigs-Gymnasium and the Königliche Bildungsinstitut for students in Munich in the academic year 1851/52.
  3. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1853/54.
  4. ^ Attilio Brilli: When traveling was an art. From the beginning of modern tourism: The “Grand Tour” . Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-2274-0 .
  5. ↑ zeitschriften.ablit.de (PDF)
  6. ↑ uni-regensburg.de ( Memento from November 30, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ See Bar Cochba, the last King of the Jews. Seal by Karl Heigel . In: Literature sheet of the Deutsche Kunstblatt , No. 2. Berlin 1857, pp. 6-8.
  8. ↑ Review. In: Deutsche Rundschau , 1879, Volume 21 (for the 2nd edition); here p. 168.
  9. ↑ Alfons Schweiggert: Ludwig II. And the women . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, p.?.
personal data
SURNAME Heigel, Karl August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heigel, Karl August Ritter von (full name); Heigel, Karl August (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian biographer, playwright and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1905
Place of death Riva del Garda