Michael Beer (Author)
Michael Beer (born August 19, 1800 in Berlin , † March 22, 1833 in Munich ) was a German playwright of the Jewish religion.
life and work
Michael Beer was the youngest of the four sons of the Jewish sugar producer and banker Jacob Herz Beer (1769-1825) and Amalie ("Malka") Beer , a daughter of Liepmann Meyer Wulff . His oldest brother was the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer , who also wrote the incidental music for Michael's tragedy Struensee about the fall of Johann Friedrich Struensee . The other brothers were Wilhelm Beer and Heinrich Beer (1794–1842), who never worked.
Beer's best-known piece , especially appreciated by Goethe , was the tragedy Der Paria (premiered in Berlin 1823), which, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , “cry of pain over the pariah position of Judaism”.
The poet, who died at the age of 32, left a large fortune that he converted into a foundation . Their administration lay with the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin, which used the proceeds to award the Michael Beer Foundation Prize to two young artists, one of whom had to be Jewish. It enabled the winners to finance a one-year study visit to Italy , of which they had to spend at least eight months in Rome .
Commemoration
Michael Beer's grave in the old Israelite cemetery in Munich has been preserved. It was designed by Leo von Klenze and illustrated in a chalk lithograph by Johann Baptist Dilger in 1841 .
A memorial plaque for Michael Beer was placed at the Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, where his mother and his brothers Giacomo and Wilhelm are buried in the family grave .
Works (selection)
- 1823 Clytemnestra , tragedy in four sections. First performance in Berlin 1819
- 1826 The Pariah , tragedy in one act. First performance in Berlin 1823
- 1828 Struensee , tragedy in five acts. First performance in Munich 1828
- 1835 All works , edited by Eduard von Schenk . FA Brockhaus Leipzig. books.google
literature
- Hermann Hettner : Beer, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 250. s: ADB: Beer, Michael
- Heinrich Maiworm: Beer, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 737 ( digitized version ). deutsche-biographie.de
- Lothar Kahn: Michael Beer 1800–1833 . In: Leo Baeck Year Book 12 (1967), pp. 149–160 (not viewed)
- Robert Ignatius Le Tellier (Ed.): The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8386-3845-7 , p. 567 (literature compilation ; limited preview in Google book search).
- Denis A. Chevalley: Monuments in Bavaria, state capital Munich . Halbband 2, Munich 2004, pp. 627–628: Illustration of the tombstone in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Munich, designed by Leo von Klenze.
- August Lewald : Panorama of Munich , 1st part, Stuttgart 1835, p. 76 ff: Michael Beer and the Munich society, causes of his death. books.google
- Beer, Michael. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 442-444.
Web links
- Works by Michael Beer at Zeno.org .: The Paria and Struensee
- Find a grave (the memorial stone from Berlin is shown, but Michael Beer was buried in Munich)
- Evidence of autographs
- Michael Beer in the literature portal Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Beer: The Pariah. Stuttgart et al., 1829 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
- ↑ Bavarian Library Network: Statute of the first Michael Beer's foundation to help impecunious painter and sculptor of Jewish religion . In: gateway-bayern.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Beer's tomb (1800–1837) in the Jewish cemetery in Munich - Jewish Museum Berlin. In: objekte.jmberlin.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Beer - Authors Berlin / Brandenburg - Literature Landscape. In: literaturport.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beer, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1800 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1833 |
Place of death | Munich |