Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa

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Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa

Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa (* 19th August 1777 in Hirschberg , † 2. June 1825 in Berlin ) was a Silesian poet of romance .

Life

Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa was born as the second son of a rich Hirschberg merchant of Italian descent in Hirschberg at the foot of the Giant Mountains . He was the younger brother of the merchant and poet Christian Jakob Salice-Contessa .

Between 1795 and 1798 he attended the education department of the Francke Foundations in Halle , where he became friends with Ernst von Houwald . He began to study law in Erlangen , which he broke off after a year in order to go to Weimar after several trips in Europe , where he settled in 1802.

Supported all his life by his brother and Houwald, he devoted himself entirely to his literary and musical inclinations. From 1805 he lived in Berlin and from 1816 together with his friend Houwald at Sellendorf Castle near Golßen , most recently at Neuhaus Castle near Lübben . In 1814 he made friends with ETA Hoffmann and joined his circle of Serapion brothers .

As a poet, Karl Wilhelm Contessa was extremely productive and left behind nine volumes of the "Collected Works". He is considered to be the founder of the romantic Giant Mountains poetry and had some influence on his contemporaries; in some works he even anticipated the demonic-diabolical features of ETA Hoffmann's poetry . Like his brother, he often took his material from the legends of the foothills of the Giant Mountains and from history. Some of the works are collaborations with his brother, with ETA Hoffmann, with Adelbert von Chamisso or with Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué . Like Hoffmann's, his prose works often deal with the tension between art and life.

Contessa was also an esteemed landscape painter .

Works

  • The Riddle / The Interrupted Chatterer (two comedies ), 1808. Digitized
  • Master Dietrich , 1811
  • Magister Rößlein , 1812
  • All the writings. Göschen, Leipzig 1826.
    • Volume 1: The letter without an address. Manon. The scholar. The misogynist. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 2: The instinct. The interrupted babbler. The riddle. The talisman. The scoop or the modern art apotheosis. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 3: The love dispute. Master Dietrich. I am my brother ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 4: Magister Röslein. Raimund. Marriages are made in heaven. Almenorade. Harmony of life. The oracle. Domestic cock and bird of paradise, or the mountain journey. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 5: The Angel of Death. Forgive us our debts. The black lake. The feast. The sword and the snakes. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 6: The Determined Girl. The treasure. The picture of the mother. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 7: He who laughs last laughs best. The lover after death. The treasure diggers. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 8: I am my sister. The White Rose. The quartet in the house. From Mr. Balthasar's life. ( Digitized version )
    • Volume 9: Poems and short essays. ( Digitized version )
  • Fantasy pieces by a Serapion brother , Berlin 1977, with the illustrations by Gerhard Goßmann

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SURNAME Salice-Contessa, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian romantic poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1825
Place of death Berlin