Karl Martin Plümicke

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Karl Martin Plümicke , more rarely Carl Martin Plümike , (born March 26, 1749 in Wollin ( Pomerania ), † April 6, 1833 in Dessau ) was a German playwright .

Life

Karl Martin Plümicke attended secondary school in Berlin and then grammar school in Züllichau . He then presumably studied law at the universities of Frankfurt / Oder and Halle / Saale . In 1781 he was appointed secretary by the Wroclaw City Council . Soon afterwards he worked in Berlin as a dramaturge for the acting troupe of Karl Theophil Döbbelin .

From October 1784, Plümicke traveled as a travel secretary in the service of Duke Peter of Courland through Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Around 1786 he became the second councilor of the ducal-Courland in Sagan . From 1800 to 1801 he was imprisoned at the Spielberg fortress near Brno in connection with the kidnapping of Princess Jeannette of Courland by the court councilor Arnoldi . From 1804 he lived as a private person in Danzig , Berlin and Magdeburg . He later visited Saint Petersburg for a project to grow beetroot . From 1808 Plümicke lived in Dessau , where he held the title of councilor and received a pension from the Duchess of Courland. He traveled temporarily as a declamator and published in magazines.

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His dramatic works are primarily Der Freiheitsspiegel (1803), “a dramatic painting from modern history in five acts”, and Das Jägermädchen (1804), a “painting from the real world in five acts” based on the book by KG Cramer , known. He had previously written a German version of the tragedy La Veuve du Malabar (1770) Antoine-Marin Lemierre with Lanassa (1782) . It became popular primarily through the Böhm drama group, who traveled across the country with the play for a long time. She used incidental music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , which he had actually written for the drama Thamos (1773), but which had failed the audience and was no longer performed.

Plümicke also edited pieces by other authors for the stage, including Schiller's Räuber and Fiesko and Meißner's Johann von Schwaben . Schiller himself called the arrangement of his pieces “ruin”, and the arrangement was praised by conservative critics.

Henriette, or the hussar robbery, is a stage adaptation of the epistle novel of the same name by Adam Beuvius, which was published in 1779 and was very popular at the time . The novel was later published by Christoph Martin Wieland , to whom the originally anonymously published book was attributed, under the title Henrietta of Gerstenfeld; a German story translated into English.

In 1804, Plümicke published the weekly publication Entertainment on the Vistula and the Baltic Sea for a quarter . This was continued as a theater paper in 1805 . Presumably until his death he wrote reviews for the Library of Philosophy and Literature , which was published in Frankfurt (Oder).

Works (selection)

  • The Volunteer , comedy in one act, 1775
  • Miss Jenny Warton or Justice and Magnanimity , comedy in three acts, 1775
  • Henriette, or the hussar robbery (also Jette, or ... ), play in five acts, 1780
  • Draft of a theatrical history of Berlin , 1781
  • Robert and Hannchen or Die the Devil brought (originally The Desire of Some Girls ), comic Singspiel in two acts, 1781
  • Lanassa , Tragedy in Five Acts, 1782
  • The visit after death , play in three acts, 1783
  • Letters on a trip through Germany in 1791 on the promotion of the national industry and the food level. Primarily in relation to manufactory, art and economy objects. , 1793
  • Fragments, sketches and situations on a journey through Italy , 1795
  • The mirror of freedom: a dramatic painting from modern history , drama in five acts, 1803
  • The hunter girl , 1804

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Plümicke (Karl) . In: The latest conversation lexicon or real encyclopedia for the educated stands. 14. Volume Pf.–O. Franz Ludwig, Vienna 1832, p. 167f.
  2. ↑ Schiller's letter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to Christian Gottfried Körner @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wissen-im-netz.info
  3. ↑ Commendable contemporary criticism of Plümicke's Schiller adaptations
personal data
SURNAME Plümicke, Karl Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plumike, Carl Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1833
Place of death Dessau