Michael von Jung

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Michael von Jung

Michael von Jung (born September 29, 1781 in Saulgau , † July 24, 1858 in Tettnang ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and poet of grave songs, which he read to the lute and later published in book form. His songs are characterized by a carefree, drastic depiction of illnesses, accidents and types of death, on the other hand by the pastoral care for the salvation of the dead and the living in the spirit of the Enlightenment. This contrast results in a height of fall that made Jung known above all as a master of involuntary comedy.

Life

Title page from Melpomene , 1839

After studying theology at the University of Salzburg and attending the seminary in Meersburg , Jung was ordained a priest in 1806. This was followed by a four-and-a-half year vicariate in Erolzheim . Finally, in 1811, he was appointed pastor in the Upper Swabian Kirchdorf an der Iller .

For his services in nursing the sick during a typhus epidemic in 1814, Jung was made a knight of the Royal Württemberg Order of Civil Merit. The knight title, which Jung proudly wore from now on, was linked to personal nobility.

His songs, which he liked to accompany with the lute , brought him into conflict with the church authorities on several occasions. In 1820 he had to pay a fine for "unauthorized and unworthy writing". Although he was denied the ecclesiastical imprimatur in 1837, he self-published 200 of his songs in two volumes in 1839. The title "Melpomene or Grablieder" refers to Melpomene , the muse of tragic poetry and funeral song.

In 1849 he was transferred to Tettnang . While the literature mostly speaks of a punitive transfer, von Jung himself saw the process as “a most gracious award of a post appropriate to his frail age”. There he worked as a chaplain and died in 1858.

reception

Jung received new attention in the 20th century, and his songs appeared in selected editions that emphasized the comic elements in his work. In the play Do not sing, bird of Alfred Weitenauer visited a canon Stolzenberg the Kirchdorferfeld pastor to him - of course without success - to dissuade from his unworthy action. The play was filmed in 1966 by the SDR with the Swabian folk actor Willy Reichert in the lead role under the title The bird does not let singing . Dieter Borsche played the visitor .

Works

  • Melpomene or grave songs , 2 volumes, 1839
  • The holy Willbold. A thirteenth century legend , drama, 1820

Work edition

  • Ewald Gruber (introduction and editing): Michael von Jung: Melpomene - Der Heilige Willebold - Marienklage . Published by the municipality of Kirchdorf an der Iller. Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 1985, ISBN 3-925171-04-5 (Contains in Faksmilie the first editions of the works published in print).

Selection expenses

  • Sebastian Blau (Hrsg.): Merry Ascension or The Most Strange Grave Songs of the Knight Michael von Jung weiland pastor to Kirchdorf in Swabia . Selection output. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1953.
  • Ewald Gruber (ed.): Grave songs: a selection from "Melpomene". With an essay on the 150th anniversary of the poet's death. Published by the city of Bad Saulgau. Federsee, Bad Buchau 2008, ISBN 978-3-925171-82-6 .
  • Heinrich Kümpel (Ed.): Merry Ascension or The Most Strange Grave Songs of the Reverend Knight Michael von Jung, a pastor at Kirchdorf in Swabia . Selection output. Albert Zürst, Zurich 1939.
  • Gerhard Steiner (Ed.), Jiří Šalamoun (Ill.): Here our tearful eyes are presented with a terrible spectacle. The strange grave songs of the village pastor knight Michael von Jung . Selection output. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1981 (with a record single).
  • Helmut Thielicke (Ed.), HE Köhler (Ill.): Happy grave songs to the lute . Selected edition (= Herder library. Volume 599). Herder, Freiburg 1976, ISBN 3-451-08621-2 .
  • Alfred Weitnauer (Hrsg.): Master of the involuntary humor. Michael von Jung's most uplifting funeral songs . Selection output. Verlag für Heimatpflege, Krempten 1963.

Sound carrier

  • One last greeting. The happy funeral songs of the knight Michael von Jung . With Walter Starz (narrator), Karl Greisel (vocals), Otto Neudert (lute). LP SWF TÜ 951-1876. Südwestfunk , State Studio Tübingen, 1976.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Michael von Jung  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Michael von Jung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Schwab:  Jung, Michael. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 823-825.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Biography of the Heimatkunde Tettnang support group, accessed on October 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Biographical life data see preface in: Franz Hammer (Ed.): Melpomene. Selected grave songs of the Upper Swabian village pastor Michael Jung. Publication of the museum Die Fähre in Saulgau. Karl Zink Verlag, Munich 1958, OCLC 313005669 .
  4. ↑ The bird singing can not be in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Michael von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Michael; Jung, Michael Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and poet of grave songs
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Saulgau
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1858
Place of death Tettnang