Literature year 1844

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Literature year 1844
Heinrich Heine gives the satirical verse epic Germany. A winter fairy tale out.
chronology

Events

prose

The last parts of the novel Les Trois Mousquetaires (Eng. The Three Musketeers ) by Alexandre Dumas are published in the newspaper Le Siècle .
Alexandre Dumas the Elder publishes the first parts of the serial novel The Count of Monte Christo .

Frontispiece from Un Autre Monde

The book Un Autre Monde , with numerous illustrations by Grandville , is published in Paris. It is one of his main works. Taxile Delord wrote the text .

Poetry

Germany. A winter fairy tale by Heinrich Heine is published by Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg.
Poems: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

drama

The Torn , scene from the 3rd act; Illustrirte Zeitung , Vol. 03 (1844), p. 61.

April 9th : Johann Nestroy's posse Der Zerrissene with music by Adolf Müller senior celebrates its world premiere in the Theater an der Wien . The material comes from the French comédie-vaudeville L'homme blasé (The Bored Man) by Félix-Auguste Duvert and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne . On the evening before the premiere of "Zerrissenen", the German adaptation of Joseph Kupelwieser has the premiere under the title Überdruß aus Überfluss or Der Gespenstige Schlosser at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, but - unlike the Nestroy version - disappears from the program after a few performances .

April 20 : Ludwig Tieck in 1797 published play Puss in Boots after the eponymous fairy tale will be premiered at the Berlin Court Theater. The audience reacts to Tieck's comedy , with which he moves away from illusion theater, with incomprehension.

Periodicals

February: The only edition of the Franco-German yearbooks edited by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx appears as a double edition in Paris. It contains, among other things, the introduction to the criticism of Hegel's philosophy of law by Karl Marx, in which he describes religion as the “ opium of the people ”.

Headline of the flying leaves

November 7th : The first edition of the Fliegende Blätter , a humorous, richly illustrated German weekly, is published by Braun & Schneider in Munich.

Headline of the Stuttgart city bell

December 22nd : The Stuttgart city bell appears for the first time. It already reaches a circulation of over 1000 copies after the first month. The Stuttgart City Bell, which appears every day except Mondays, broadcasts continuation stories of historical and patriotic content, announced as legends or stories that have been passed down orally or in writing by previous generations. In fact, the lyrics are fictitious. The fictional hero of the first series is Anton Webercus , a supposedly more than 100 year old man who is said to have written down the moral history of the 18th century in diary form.