Levin Schücking

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Levin Schücking, 1848

Christoph Bernhard Levin Matthias Schücking (born September 6, 1814 in Meppen , †  August 31, 1883 in Pyrmont ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Levin Schücking was the eldest son of the Arenberg bailiff, judge and religious historian Paulus Modestus Schücking and his wife, the poet Katharina Sibylla Schücking nee. Bush. He spent his childhood and youth in the stables of the baroque hunting lodge Clemenswerth in Sögel , Emsland, until 1829 . After moving to Münster in 1829, he attended the Paulinum grammar school there ; after another move to Osnabrück in 1831, the Carolinum grammar school there , where he passed his Abitur in 1833.

Schücking studied in Munich , Heidelberg and Goettingen jurisprudence and got his law degree in 1837 back to Munster , where he circulated the so-called "Heck writer-society" with Elise Rüdiger , Annette von Droste-Hulshoff , Luise von Bornstedt, Wilhelm Junkmann and Christoph Bernhard Schlüter wrong. He soon gave up the legal career and turned entirely to literature. In order to support him in this, Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff made her own contributions available. B. in his collaboration on the work The picturesque and romantic Westphalia (1841) exploited.

From 1838 Schücking worked on Karl Gutzkows magazine Telegraph for Germany and was decisively promoted by this. He also published many articles in Johann Friedrich Cottas Morgenblatt for educated readers and in other fiction-critical papers.

In 1841, through the mediation of his 'maternal' friend Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, he became a librarian at her brother-in-law, Baron Joseph von Laßberg at Meersburg Castle on Lake Constance. In 1842/43 he got a job as a prince educator at Prince Wrede in Mondsee near Salzburg, before he was appointed editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung , the most influential newspaper in Germany at the time, in Augsburg in the autumn of 1843 .

On October 7, 1843, he married the writer Louise von Gall , to whom he had long been engaged only because of an intensive exchange of letters. In 1845 he moved from Augsburg to Cologne , where he headed the features section of the Kölnische Zeitung , traveled to Paris in 1846 on behalf of the newspaper and to Rome for a longer period in 1847 . In Paris he met Heinrich Heine several times . Until 1852 he remained the features editor of the Kölnische Zeitung .

At the end of 1852 he retired to his property in Sassenberg , Westphalia . His wife died here in 1855. Schücking continued to work for numerous magazines and daily newspapers, wrote novels, short stories, travel books, small feature pages and reviews, traveled to the World Exhibition in London in 1862 , again to Italy in 1864, to the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 and stayed in Münster for long periods of time.

Schücking died at the age of 68 of pancreatic cancer in the sanatorium of his son, the secret medical councilor Adrian Schücking in Bad Pyrmont. His grave monument is in the cemetery on Lortzingstrasse in Bad Pyrmont .

family

Schücking had five children with his wife Louise:

Theophanie (nickname: Theo ) Schücking was the first partner of the Swiss writer Meta von Salis . From the marriage of Lothar Carl Levin Schücking to Luise Wilhelmine Amalie geb. Beitzke (1849–1920) sons Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873–1943), Walther Schücking (1875–1935) and Levin Ludwig Schücking (1878–1964).

Literary work

Schücking left a varied and extensive work that includes almost all literary genres, but fluctuates in terms of meaning. As a narrator and critic in particular, he played a major role in literature for several decades. The landscape background of many of his stories are Westphalia and the Rhineland , which earned him the name of a "Westphalian Walter Scott ". His irrepressible love of tales, his inclination to romantic entanglements and exciting, adventurous stories made him extremely popular with the reading public between 1850 and 1880. He used to weave stimulating and witty conversations into his narrative works and to controversially discuss ideological positions and issues of the time. In addition to time novels, he has written numerous historical novels and short stories, but also travel literature, biographical works, dramas and poems.

Portrait from: Die Gartenlaube 1862

As a journalist, he has published an unmanageable number of literary-critical, columnist works and essays, most of which have been lost and have not yet been cataloged. For example, he regularly wrote literary reviews for the monthly series Illustrierte Familienbuch published by Österreichischer Lloyd in Trieste from 1850 to 1865 .

Schücking's journalistic profession and his outstanding position as an author brought him together with many prominent contemporaries of political and cultural life. In this context, his memoirs are informative, although they broke off with the year 1849 and remained unfinished. The relationships with his sponsor Karl Gutzkow, his friend Ferdinand Freiligrath and his long-time companion Annette von Droste-Hülshoff were of great importance for Schücking's development. He worked with the three authors as well as with his wife Louise von Gall. So he published together with Freiligrath in 1841 The picturesque and romantic Westphalia and wrote together with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff the novella "The Family Shield", which appeared in the morning paper in 1841 for educated readers . He later published Droste-Hülshoff's works, wrote a first biography about them and campaigned strongly for her literary work. The picture he paints of her in the novel Die Ritterbürtigen (1846) in the figure of the scheming canon lady Allgunde Countess von Quernheim is not very flattering. This deliberately caricaturing representation led to a final break with the girlfriend.

Schücking admired the Scottish novelist Walter Scott and was influenced by him as well as by the prose of Junge Deutschland .

Commemoration

In some cities and towns, streets were named after Levin Schücking's death, so u. a. a street in Dortmund , an avenue in Münster and a path in Wickede (Ruhr) . There is also a Schücking Street in Sassenberg and Warendorf .

A Göttingen memorial plaque has been on the Black Bear in Göttingen since 1933 .

In 1997 a Schücking Museum was set up in Sögel due to private initiatives . a. Showed exhibits from the estate of Levin Schücking and dedicated himself to researching the estate and maintaining Schücking's literary heritage. The museum presented a permanent exhibition that also dealt with Louise von Gall, Alfred Schücking, Modestus Schücking, Catharina Busch and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. At the same time, a Schücking company was founded. In 2003, however, the museum had to be closed because long-term financial support from the public sector could not be achieved. In the course of the museum's closure, the Schücking Society also dissolved again.

Works

  • (With Ferdinand Freiligrath): The picturesque and romantic Westphalia. Volckmar, Leipzig 1841.
  • The Cologne Cathedral and its completion. Boisserée, Cologne 1842.
  • A castle by the sea. 2 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1843,
  • Poems. Cotta, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1846.
  • Novellas. 2 volumes. Heckenast, Pest / Leipzig 1846 (Contents: The Syndic of Zweibrücken, Nur keine Liebe, La Fleur, The Banquet at Chicksand Castle, A Geusen Adventure, The Family Sign, Wine and Love Trade, Grandchildren ).
  • The knights. 3 volumes Brockhaus, Leipzig 1846.
  • A dark act. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1846.
  • A Roman journey. Hölscher, Koblenz 1849.
  • Heinrich von Gagern. A photograph. Du Mont-Schauberg, Cologne 1849.
  • Faustina. Drama in four acts. Cologne 1852 (printed as a manuscript).
  • A state secret. 3 volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854.
  • (Ed.) World and Time. From the estate of a Russian diplomat. Schindler, Berlin 1855.
  • A train ride through Westphalia. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1855.
  • The hero of the future. Herzabek, Prague 1855.
  • The Sphinx. Novel. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856.
  • From Minden to Cologne. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856.
  • Paul Bronckhorst or The New Men. Novel. 3 volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858.
  • The Rheider Castle. Narrative. 2 volumes. Kober & Markgraf, Prague 1859.
  • Collected stories and novellas. 6 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1859–1866.
  • Pictures from Westphalia. Friedrichs, Elberfeld 1860.
  • Annette von Droste, a picture of life. Rümpler, Hanover 1861.
  • The sutler from Cologne. 3 volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1861.
  • A soldier's adventure. 2 volumes. Günther, Vienna / Leipzig 1861.
  • The jury and their judge. 3 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1861.
  • Winding paths. 3 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1867.
  • Dornegge Castle or The Way to Happiness. 4 volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1868.
  • The painter from the Louvre. 4 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1869.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Two episodes from his life. Günther, Leipzig 1870.
  • Luther in Rome. 3 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1870.
  • German fights. 2 volumes. Leipzig: Günther, Leipzig 1871.
  • The saints and the knights. 4 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1873,
  • The right of the living. Novel. 3 volumes. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1880.
  • Something on your conscience. Spemann, Stuttgart 1882.
  • Life memories. 2 volumes. Schottlaender, Breslau 1886. New edition: Walter Gödden , Jochen Grywatsch (Hrsg.): Memories of life. (= Publications of the literature commission for Westphalia. Volume 38, series of texts volume 14). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-760-2 .
  • The sister . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 15. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 169-291. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

Translations

  • Anna Jameson : Shakespeare's female characters. Characteristics. Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing 1840. (All of William Shakespeare's dramatic works. Supplement.)
  • Le Sage : The Limping Devil . 2 vols. Hildburghausen: Bibliographisches Institut, 1866
  • Rousseau : Confessions . 2 vols. Hildburghausen: Bibliographisches Institut, 1870

Letters

  • Letters from Levin Schücking and Louise von Gall . Edited by Reinhold Conrad Muschler. With e. biographer. Inlet by Levin Ludwig Schücking. Leipzig: Grunow 1928.
  • Letters from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Levin Schücking . Edited by Reinhold Conrad Muschler. 3rd heavily probable edition Leipzig: Grunow 1928.
  • The correspondence between Karl Gutzkow and Levin Schücking 1838–1876 . Ed., Incorporated. u. commented v. Wolfgang Rasch. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 1998. ISBN 3-89528-156-5

literature

  • Christa Brinkers: Traces of a Droste friendship in the Emsland . In: The Grafschafter. Nordhorn. Episode 79. 9/1959, pp. 640-641.
  • Walter Gödden :  Schücking, Levin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 630 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johannes Hagemann: Levin Schücking's youth and literary early days . Univ. Dissertation Münster 1911.
  • Johannes Hagemann: Levin Schücking. The poet and his work . Emsdetten, Lechte 1959.
  • Wilhelm Heising: Westphalia in the novels of Levin Schückings . Univ. Dissertation Münster 1926.
  • HH Houben : Karl Gutzkow and Levin Schücking. In: Westermannsmonthshefte. Vol. 89, Braunschweig 1901, pp. 391-404.
  • Hermann Hüffer :  Schücking, Christoph Bernhard Levin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 643-647.
  • Christa Klein: Levin Schücking's library in the Westphalian State Museum. A first overview . In: Westphalia. Booklets for art, history and folklore. Muenster. Vol. 71, 1993, pp. 219-224.
  • Anton Kohnen: Levin Schücking, poet and journalist. At his 175th on August 31, 1958 . In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein, Vol. 6, Meppen 1959, pp. 88–95.
  • Reading book Levin Schücking. Compiled and with an afterword by Walter Gödden . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2018.
  • Ulf Morgenstern , Art. "Schücking, merchant and scholar family", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 23 (Berlin 2007), pp. 629f.
  • Kurt Pinthus : Levin Schücking's novels . Univ. Diss. Leipzig 1911.
  • Joseph Raßmann: The dramatic work of Levin Schücking . Ohlau 1937 (Univ. Diss. Breslau 1937).
  • Manfred Schier: Levin Schücking - promoter of the Droste plant . In: Winfried Woesler (ed.): Model case of reception research. Droste reception in the 19th century. Vol. II, Frankfurt / Main 1980.
  • Manfred Schier: Levin Schücking . Münster, 1988 (Westphalia in the picture. Series: Westphalian poets and writers in the 19th century. Issue 5).
  • Manfred Schier: Levin Schücking. Westphalian writer between tradition and emancipation . In: Literature in Westphalia . Contributions to research, Paderborn 1992, pp. 105–129.
  • Heinrich AJ Schulte: Levin Schücking and Wilhelm Junckmann as poets . Univ. Diss. Münster 1916.
  • Ilse Simmermacher: Levin Schücking's journalistic achievement . Univ. Dissertation Heidelberg 1945.
  • Heinz Thien: Schücking, Levin . In: Emsländische Geschichte vol. 6. Ed. the study society for Emsland regional history, Dohren 1997, pp. 318–326 (with a detailed list of works and literature).
  • Heinz Thien:  Schücking, Christoph Bernhard Levin Matthias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1313-1319.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Thien:  Schücking, Christoph Bernhard Levin Matthias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1313-1319.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ^ Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Göttingen. Göttingen 1997, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Schücking, Levin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schücking, Christoph Bernhard Levin Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1883
Place of death Pyrmont