Karl Spindler (writer)

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Karl Spindler, portrait of Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1830)

Karl Spindler or Carl Spindler , also C. Spinalba and Max Hufnagl (born October 16, 1796 in Breslau , † July 12, 1855 in Bad Freiersbach ), was a German writer .

Life

Spindler, the son of an actress and a conductor at the Breslauer Theater, spent his youth in Strasbourg , was apprenticed to a lawyer, but gave up the desired career as a lawyer after he had evaded the French military service by fleeing. He went to Augsburg , became an actor and joined a traveling troupe . For years he traveled with this theater company through Germany and the neighboring countries. In Sibiu (Transylvania) he met his future wife Fanny. He left the theater around 1824 and began to make a living from writing. He lived in Hanau and Stuttgart , settled in Munich in 1829 and in Baden-Baden in 1831 , later changed his place of residence several times and moved back to Baden-Baden after the death of his wife, who had died of mental illness. He died on July 12, 1855 in Bad Freiersbach.

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Spindler wrote innumerable novels and short stories with a downright marvelous speed. Between 1830 and 1860 he was one of the most popular entertainment writers in Germany. His hasty production and the weaknesses of his narrative prose did not prevent Spindler from being taken seriously by literary criticism, at least in part. Spindler ignored later literary historiography in spite of its enormous impact on the contemporary reading public. Only Arno Schmidt made in a radio essay (first broadcast in 1974) back to the phenomenon Spindler attention and raised above all its people novel The Bird of Imst (1841, 4 vols.) And Putsch & Comp. 1847-1848-1849 (1851-52, 4 vols.).

Among his numerous novels, the most widely read of the time were: The Bastard (1826, 3 vol .; from the time of Emperor Rudolf II. ), The Jude (1827, 4 vol .; a description of customs from the first half of the 15th century. ), The Jesuit (1829, 3 vols.), The Invalide (1831, 5 vols.), A novel from the time of the French Revolution, and The King of Zion (1837, 3 vols.), Set in Münster during the Anabaptist period .

Spindler wrote several plays and was also active as a journalist: in 1829, the women's newspaper was published in Munich under his editorial team . A morning paper for the fair sex , from 1831 to 1832 Zeitspiegel. Weekly deliveries from the fields of romanticism, art, history and life as well as from 1830 to 1849 the paperback forget-me-not .

Works (selection)

  • All works . Vol. 1-84, 86-102. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1831-1854. (Vol. 85 not published)
  • The Nuremberg Sophocles. In: Morgenblatt for educated readers. Volume 33, 1839, pp. 2 f., 5 f., 11 f., 14 f., 17 f. and 22 f. (Continuation of the amendment in six parts).
  • Works. Classic edition . Vol. 1-101. Stuttgart: Hallberger 1854-1856.
  • Selected novels. New classic edition . Stuttgart: Hallberger 1875–1876. (14 sections in 34 volumes.)
  • The angel marriage . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 8. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1-66. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

literature

  • Arno Schmidt : Imst's bird dealer. Conversation about Carl Spindler, as well as about the history in the novel (typescript 1973), in: ders., BA II, 3 (1991), pp. 347–388.
  • Ludwig Fränkel:  Spindler, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 200-202.

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personal data
SURNAME Spindler, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hufnagl, Max; Spinalba, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1855
Place of death Bad Freiersbach