Karl Lappe

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Karl Lappe (born April 24, 1773 in Wusterhusen , † October 28, 1843 in Stralsund ; full name: Karl Gottlieb Lappe ) was a Pomeranian poet . He was a co-founder of the weekly literary magazine Sundine .

Life

Karl Lappe was the youngest son of the pastor of Wusterhusen (located between Wolgast and Greifswald ). After the early death of his father, he attended the city school in Wolgast from 1780, of which Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten was the principal . From 1790 he studied theology, philosophy and philology at the University of Greifswald . Here he also met Ernst Moritz Arndt , with whom he had a long friendship.

After completing his studies, he worked as a private tutor, most recently at Kosegarten himself in Altenkirchen (Rügen) . In 1801 he switched to the Stralsund high school . He published a poetic magazine for his students . Some of his works deal with the events of 1813; he was revered as a "fatherland freedom singer".

In 1817 he had to give up teaching after a serious illness. He settled in Pütte and from then on devoted himself to writing and raising his children, whom he and his wife Ulrica, born in 1801, married. Schindler (born December 6, 1780 in Gustow , † February 3, 1851 in Greifswald ), had. Numerous poems testify to this very happy time for him. On March 10, 1824, his house, along with his library and the self-published writings up until then, fell victim to an arson attack . Thanks to the immense helpfulness of people who valued him as a local poet, he was able to build a new house. After his two sons and daughters had become independent, he sold the house in Pütte in autumn 1842 and moved to Stralsund.

In addition to love poems, Lappe mainly wrote poems on his homeland, Western Pomerania . To do this, he traveled to almost every corner of the country. The most frequent subject of his lyrical works was the island of Rügen . In his poems he praised the beauty of the sea, the land and its people. He also described the life of some of his countrymen. Together with Friedrich Joachim Philipp von Suckow , he founded the weekly literary magazine Sundine in Stralsund .

Karl Lappe died in Stralsund in 1843. He was buried in the Frankenfriedhof . Lines from a poem he wrote were engraved on his grave, tended by the Masonic Lodge “Sundia zur Truth”: “Sleep or death, the dawn shines brightly”. The grave was removed in 1960.

The Karl Lappe Association in Wusterhusen looks after the poet's legacy. In the parsonage there is a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Karl Lappe.

Works

  • Poems (Düsseldorf 1801)
  • Faith, hope, love, joy. Coiled into a wreath for life (Leipzig 1810)
  • Battle poems from the campaign of 1813 (Stralsund 1814)
  • Handing over to Rügen, the traveler to accompany and remember (Stralsund 1818)
  • Pommer-Buch or Vaterländisches Lesebuch for the province of Pomerania (Stralsund 1820)
  • Frog mouse
  • Klimm and Gulliver's wonderful journeys
  • The island rock castle or the land of diamonds. An epitome of all robinsonades and seafaring stories (Pest 1820)
  • Kellgren's prosaic writings from Swedish
  • Sheets (3 volumes, Stralsund / Berlin 1824–1829)
  • All poetic works (5 volumes, Rostock 1836)
  • Flowers of old age (Stralsund 1841)
  • Karl Gottlieb Lappe, city or country. Just not too narrow the rooms . Poems. Edited by Horst Langer. Greifswald 2012.

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Honor

In memory of the famous poet, the North German Romantic Route has existed since 1997 . The 54 km long nature trail connects a total of ten life and motif stations of early romantic painters and poets from the region from Greifswald to Wolgast .

literature

  • Biederstedt: News from the now living writers in Neuvorpommern and Rügen , Stralsund 1822, p. 72ff.
  • Otto Stelter: Karl Lappe's life and poetry. A contribution to the intellectual history of Pomerania , Diss.Greifswald 1926.
  • Erich Gülzow: Karl Lappe. In: Pomeranian Life Pictures III. Saunier, Stettin 1939, pp. 216-225.
  • Gerd Schubert (Ed.): Yearbook of the Johann Gottfried Schnabel Society 2004/2005 .
  • Adolf Häckermann:  Lappe, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 704-706.

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personal data
SURNAME Lappe, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lappe, Karl Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Wusterhusen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1843
Place of death Stralsund