Ludwig Hölty

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Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty as a portrait medallion on the New Town Hall of Hanover
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Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (born December 21, 1748 in Mariensee ; † September 1, 1776 in Hanover ) was a popular poet in the area of ​​the Hainbund .

Life

Ludwig Hölty
Residence from 1765 to 1768 according to the inscription on Schuhstraße 22 in Celle

Ludwig Hölty, son of the preacher Phillip Ernst Hölty, studied theology and languages in Göttingen from 1769 . His circle of friends included Gottfried August Bürger , Johann Georg August Galletti , Johann Heinrich Voss , Johann Martin Miller , and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg . As an admirer of Klopstock , he joined the Göttingen Hainbund .

Hölty's work as a poet was influenced by Klopstock's freedom poetry and the elegiac tone of English poets - Hölty had translated Shaftesbury among others . The last two years of his life were marked by his suffering from consumption , with which melancholy settled on his verses and which was also expressed in his letters. Hölty died in Hanover in the house at Leinstrasse 8. The building was destroyed in 1943, today there is a memorial plaque on the successor building. He was buried in the St. Nikolai cemetery ; the exact location of the resting place is unknown. The monument created by the sculptor Otto Lüer in 1901 next to the Nikolaikapelle commemorates the poet . This includes a larger than life bronze statue of a young man . A portrait medallion of the poet made by the sculptor Karl Gundelach based on a contemporary silhouette is attached to the grave monument . In addition, memorial verses by Nikolaus Lenau about Hölty are engraved:

Grave monument from 1901 with a youth in the St. Nikolai cemetery

“Hölty, your friend, spring has come. He is wistfully wrong to find you. But in vain, his plaintive reputation fades into lonely shadows. "

The following verse about Hölty has come down to us from August Thieme :

Hölty the childish one! Its strings shimmer
Still wounded with flowers behind the village altar.
To him the harmony of life rang in bells,
In the sound of the baby the farmer gave birth.
He follows the young men, the young brides,
And braided the dead flowers in her hair.
Rest, lively singer! well in your flower grave,
With your bouquet, with your shepherd's staff!

In Charlotte von Eine's testimony, she comments on Hölty's appearance:

"Above all my noble, pious, child-loyal Hölty, who kept the most beautiful angel soul in the ugliest body of all - alas, under heavy pressure, only for a short time. Yes - I might say - you had to close your eyes when you were so loving yourself to approach him or to have close to him: so bad was his appearance. "

Act

One of his best-known poems is Üb 'immer Treu' und Righteousness to your cool grave ( The old farmer to his son ), which was set by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to the melody A girl or a female from the opera The Magic Flute with a slight change in notes . Mozart's setting of the poem Traumbild is also known . Other poems were written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , Johann Abraham Peter Schulz , Johann Friedrich Reichardt , August Harder , Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , Conradin Kreutzer , Franz Schubert , Peter Cornelius , Johannes Brahms , Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy set to music.

Honors

Memorial stone in Mariensee

High schools in Wunstorf near Hanover and Celle were named after Hölty, and a primary school in Göttingen . An antiquarian bookshop in Göttingen bore his name, the "Hölty-Stube" at Johannisstrasse 28.

In Göttingen there is a memorial stone for the Hainbund on Herzberger Landstrasse. There is a Hölty monument in Hanover , and in Volkmarshausen near Hann. A Höltystein was set up in Münden .

In the Mariensee Monastery , the Hölty-Stube, a small literary memorial, commemorates the life and work of the poet. There is a memorial stone for Ludwig Hölty next to the monastery.

Höltystraße in Hanover has honored the name of the poet since 1865 . The main street in his birthplace Mariensee also bears his name, as does a street in Göttingen's east quarter . In Celle the street on which the grammar school is located also bears his name: Ludwig-Hölty-Straße.

In his memory, the city of Hanover has been awarding the Hölty Prize every two years since 2008 .

Fonts

  • Collected works and letters. Published by Walter Hettche. Wallstein, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89244-076-X .
  • Poems (= Insel-Bücherei. Vol. 245, ISSN  0233-1047 ). With an afterword by Walther Lampe . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1938.
  • All the poems. Contumax, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8430-5463-8 .
  • Poems by Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty . Concerned by his friends Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg and Johann Heinrich Voss. Hamburg: Bohn 1783.

literature

Portrait relief of Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty by
Friedrich Adolf Sötebier from 1961 on the 1901 memorial in the old St. Nikolai cemetery in Hanover.

Individual evidence

  1. Charlotte von Eine: Jugendgeschichte, in: Magdalena Heuser et al. (Hrsg.): "I really wish to be taught". Three autobiographies by 18th century women. Göttingen, 1994 (p. 57).
  2. Höltystrasse. In: Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 119.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files