Ludwig Hölty
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, 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:
“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,
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With your bouquet, with your shepherd's staff!
- Hölty the childish one! Its strings shimmer
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
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
- Peter Brink, Christoph Oppermann (ed.): 250 years of Hölty. Wunstorfer Merkur-Verlag Grevsmühl & Oppermann, Wunstorf 1999, ISBN 3-00-005198-8 .
- Adalbert Elschenbroich: Hölty, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 336 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Müller: Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty. Life and work. Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Egelsbach et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8267-4893-X .
- Thyme Oberlin-Kaiser: Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty. Juris-Verlag, Zurich 1964 (Zurich, university, dissertation, 1963).
- Carl Christian Redlich: Hölty, Ludewig Heinrich Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 9-12.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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
- Literature by and about Ludwig Hölty in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ludwig Hölty in the German Digital Library
- Works by Ludwig Hölty at Zeno.org .
- Works by Ludwig Hölty in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Ludwig Hölty in the Internet Archive
- Works by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty in the Bibliotheca Augustana
- “Elegy to a country girl” with illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki
- Selected life data (private page)
- Biography ( memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- City sign on his house in Hanover
- A large part of the estate is in the Bavarian State Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hölty, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hölty, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet around the Hainbund |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1748 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mariensee (Neustadt am Rübenberge) |
DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1776 |
Place of death | Hanover |