Karl Isidor Beck
Karl Isidor Beck (born May 1, 1817 in Baja , Bács-Bodrog County ; died April 9, 1879 in Währing near Vienna ) was an Austrian poet, journalist and writer.
Life
Karl Isidor Beck, son of Jewish parents, first attended schools in his hometown before completing his training in Budapest, where the family had moved in 1829. A younger brother was the cartoonist Wilhelm Beck . In 1833/34 he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna , but soon returned to Budapest to work in his father's shop.
In 1835 he went to the University of Leipzig and studied philosophy to the doctorate Dr. phil. Through Gustav Kühne , the then editor of the “Newspaper for the Elegant World”, he came into contact with the literary movement of Young Germany by popularizing his peppy casual poem Die Eisenbahn . As a result, he was especially friendly with Georg Herwegh , Ottilie von Goethe and Nikolaus Lenau . Beck began to write socially critical and political poems himself. He also joined the old Leipzig fraternity . In 1838 he published the poetry collection Nights, Armored Songs , which was very well received.
Subsequently, for example, Stille Lieder (1839) and the tragedy Saul (1841), which was performed in Pest in 1840, and Jankó, the Hungarian horse-shepherd , a novel in verse in which he devoted himself to describing the landscape of Hungary with patriotic enthusiasm, appeared in 1842 . In 1843 he converted to Protestantism and began working on the Pest newspaper "Der Ungar". Living alternately in Berlin and Vienna, he also made contact with Anastasius Grün , Friedrich Halm , Friedrich Hebbel , Franz von Dingelstedt and others. a.
When he published his Gesammelte Gedichte in 1844, Beck came into conflict with the Prussian censors ; after a confiscation the book was released by the higher censorship court with the exclusion of two poems. His songs from the poor man , published in 1846, contained socially critical tendencies influenced by Ludwig Börne , but were viewed critically by Friedrich Engels .
After the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution in 1848 , Beck moved from Berlin to Vienna. From 1854 he worked as a feature editor for Pester Lloyd . He married in Vienna in 1850, but his wife died after a few months. As a poet, his fame had faded greatly since the Revolution. Nevertheless, from 1868 he still received grants from the German Schiller Foundation . After further stays in Berlin and Weimar , where he received an award from Grand Duke Carl Alexander and socialized with his compatriot Franz Liszt , he lived in Vienna again in the last years of his life. In 1876 he married a second time: the novelist Friederike Meister. Beck could no longer complete the work on his favorite work, Master Gottfried . After a stroke, he suffered from chronic encephalitis, which required a stay in a sanatorium in Währing, where he then died.
His literary estate was to be published by Adolph Kohut , who in 1898 had part of it appear as unprinted items by Karl Beck in the "International Literature Reports".
His grave is in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (Group 10, No. 75) in Vienna. In 2001, Karl-Beck-Gasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
Poetry
His still ongoing awareness owes the poet said from the band Quiet Songs originating poem
- At the Donau
And I saw you rich in pain |
It was written in the stars |
Probably, even if it is no longer verifiable today, Johann Strauss knew these words which inspired him to choose the title for one of his most famous waltzes, An der Schöne blau Donau . In any case, the poet meant the southern Hungarian Danube near his hometown and not the Danube in Vienna.
In the songs of the poor man as well as in the other collections, Beck also sings about the millennial world pain of Judaism. B. in:
- The junk Jew
You have to create, you have to get hold of, |
You are not a man in office and dignity, |
Works
- Nights, armored songs . Leipzig 1838.
- The traveling poet . Leipzig 1838.
- Silent songs . Leipzig 1840.
- Saul . Leipzig 1841.
- Jankó . Novel in verse. Leipzig 1842, 3rd edition 1870.
- Collected poems . Berlin 1844, 3rd edition 1870.
- Songs from the poor man . Leipzig 1846.
- Monthly roses . Berlin 1848, a re-blooming of the silent songs .
- Armored songs . Berlin 1848.
- To Franz Joseph . Vienna 1849.
- From home . 2nd edition, Dresden 1852.
- Mater dolorosa . Novel. Berlin 1854.
- Jadwiga . A verified narrative. Leipzig 1863.
- Still and moving . A second collection of poems. Berlin 1870.
- Unprinted by Karl Beck . In: International literature reports . Berlin 1898.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Beck, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 01. part. University book printing company L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, pp. 212–214 ( digitized version ).
- Ludwig Fränkel: Beck, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 303-309.
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 1. Chernivtsi 1925, p. 268 ff.
- Eugen Thurnher: Beck, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 704 ( digitized version ).
- Beck Karl Isidor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 61.
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 296-297.
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 83.
- Beck, Karl Isidor. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 423-429.
- Heidelore Riss: Beck, Karl Isidor. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 31-33.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 48–49.
Web links
Part of the estate in the catalog of the Austrian National Library: [1] [2]
- Entry on Karl Isidor Beck in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Works by Karl Isidor Beck in the Austrian Union Catalog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Grimm, Leo Besser-Walzel: The corporations. Handbook on history, dates, facts, people . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-524-69059-9
- ↑ Irmgard Maya Fassmann: Jüdinnen in der Deutschen Frauenbewegung, 1865-1919 . Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-09666-8 , p. 159.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beck, Karl Isidor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1817 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baja |
DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1879 |
Place of death | Währing near Vienna |