Michael Beer (Author)

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Michael Beer, ca.1830

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Beer: The Pariah. Stuttgart et al., 1829 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Michael Beer's tomb (1800–1837) in the Jewish cemetery in Munich - Jewish Museum Berlin. In: objekte.jmberlin.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ Michael Beer - Authors Berlin / Brandenburg - Literature Landscape. In: literaturport.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
personal data
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