Karl Schall (poet)

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Karl Leopold Anton Schall , also Carl Schall (born February 24, 1780 in Breslau ; † August 18, 1833 there ), was a German comedy poet, translator and journalist.

Life

Karl Schall was born the son of a wealthy businessman. He trained primarily in the fine arts and tried again and again in all areas of the writing guild. Initially relatively financially independent, he traveled around until his fortune was largely exhausted to gain experience and further education. At the same time he was considered one of the best ball dancers in Wroclaw at a young age, later in his corpulence after Shakespeare's Falstaff as Wroclaw "Sir John", who commented on everything with his acuteness and wit. From 1820 to 1833 he published the (Neue) Breslauer Zeitung daily , which, in addition to political reports and theater reports, featured a feature section in which Schall discussed members of the university, professors such as Karl Ludwig Kannegießer , Henrich Steffens and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte as well on talented students.

He was friends with the Breslau writer Karl von Holtei and the long-time theater conductor and leaseholder Gottlob Benedict Bierey for a while, but fell out with the latter from 1824 so that his journalistic work on the Breslau theater could no longer be viewed as constructive criticism.

Together with Max Habicht and Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen , he translated the French edition of the Arabic stories Thousand and One Nights into German, an edition for which Moritz von Schwind designed vignettes. Schall's lectures on well-known poets, whose works he also explained in this context, were popular. In 1823, Schall was a founding member of the Breslauer Liedertafel as well as the leading head of the so-called "team", a group of Breslau writers (Holtei, Kannegießer, Witte) and artists (Höcker, Liebermann, Karl Schwindt), among them Eugen von Vaerst and Franz von Schober for a time . He was also a member of a Masonic lodge in Breslau .

Schall's comedies were also successful beyond Breslau.

Works (selection)

  • The sonnet
  • More luck than mind
  • The sanctuary
  • The kiss and the slap
  • Theater addiction
  • Trust, look who?
  • The interrupted whist game
  • The button on the fluffy skirt
  • Sword and spindle

Publication: "(Neue) Breslauer Zeitung", "German papers for poetry, literature, art and theater" (with Karl von Holtei and Friedrich Barth, published from January to December 1823) and others.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer :  Schall, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 557 f.
  • Maximilian Weller: The Five Great Drama Readers. On the stylistics and cultural history of German poetry lectures from 1800-1880. Konrad Triltsch Verlag, Würzburg-aumühle 1939 ( Das Nationaltheater , Vol. III) [Tieck, Schall, Holtei, Immermann, Palleske]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 281.
personal data
SURNAME Schall, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schall, Karl Leopold Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedy poet, translator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1833
Place of death Wroclaw