Oskar von Redwitz

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Oskar von Redwitz

Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz auf Schmölz and Theisenort (born June 28, 1823 in Lichtenau (Middle Franconia) ; † July 6, 1891 in the mental hospital St. Gilgenberg in Eckersdorf near Bayreuth) was a German poet .

Life

origin

Oskar von Redwitz was born in Lichtenau, near Ansbach , on June 28, 1823. He came from the formerly imperial Frankish noble family von Redwitz and was the son of the Bavarian civil servant Ludwig von Redwitz (1779–1848) and his wife Anna, née Miller, niece of the poet Johann Martin Miller .

Life history

Oskar von Redwitz, photo around 1870
Bust of Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz in the Schiller Park in Meran.

After attending grammar schools in Speyer and Zweibrücken , von Redwitz studied in Munich and Erlangen . From 1843 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich .

Then Redwitz was a candidate for the Bavarian civil service (1846-49). He then studied languages ​​and literature in Bonn (1849–50) and in 1851 became professor of aesthetics and history of literature at the University of Vienna . In 1852 he gave up this post and moved to his country estate Schellenberger Hof near Weilerbach , Pfalz . His wife Mathilde Hoscher, who came from Speyer and whom he married in Weilerbach in 1851, brought the estate into the marriage.

In 1854 he moved to his Schmölz Castle near Kronach . He had this extended by a south wing until 1857. But as early as 1861 the baron sold the headquarters of his Redwitz-Schmölz family to the barons of Egloffstein .

As an elected member of the Bavarian District Chamber, he moved to Munich in 1862. In 1872 he chose his residence in Meran (Villa Schillerhof ) as his place of residence. There he associated with the writer Fedor von Zobeltitz, among others . He spent the last years of his life in a sanatorium for "nervous disorders" near Bayreuth , where he died on July 6, 1891.

Both in Weilerbach and in his birthplace Lichtenau, streets are named after the poet.

progeny

The couple had several children. The son Max von Redwitz (1858–1920) was major general and court master in the Wittelsbach royal family , the daughter Marie von Redwitz (1856–1933), lady- in- waiting for Duchess Amalie in Bavaria and worked as a writer, the other daughter, Anna von Redwitz (1852 –1924), had married the railway industrialist Otto von Kühlmann ; her son, the diplomat Richard von Kühlmann , took over the official duties of the German foreign minister during the First World War. Her grandson was the German FDP politician Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm (1916–1977).

tomb

Grave of Oskar Redwitz on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Oskar Redwitz is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (New Arkadenplatz 97 at cemetery 41) location . Otto von Kühlmann , who married the daughter of Redwitz-Schmölz, is also in the family crypt .

Bust in Meran

The bust of Redwitz was made by Caspar von Zumbusch and placed in the Schiller Park in Merano in 1894. From 1872 until shortly before his death, Oskar von Redwitz lived in Merano near the park in the Villa Schillerhof.

There is also a forest clearing named after him in the South Tyrolean Gossensaß .

Act as a writer

The pious sentimentality of his romantic epic Amaranth (1849; 42nd edition 1898) already earned him enthusiastic admirers. The work was followed by fairy tales (1850), poems (1852) and the tragedy Sieglinde (1854). At Schmölz Castle he wrote the tragedy Thomas More (1856), the historical dramas Philippine Welser (1859) and Der Zunftmeister von Nürnberg (1860), the first two of which were very successful.

In 1868 he published the novel Hermann Stark, German Life , and in 1871 The Song of the New German Empire , consisting of several hundred patriotic sonnets .

“Husch, husch - die Waldfee!” (From Philippine Welser ) was the language of Redwitz's creation .

Works (selection)

Poems

  • A fairy tale (1850) ( digitized at lexikus.de / free digitized at GoogleBooks)
  • Amaranth (1851) ( digitized )
  • Poems (1852)
  • The Song of the New German Empire (1871)
  • A German House Book (1883)

Novels

  • Herman Stark, German Life (1868)

Dramas

  • Sieglinde (1853)
  • Thomas More (1856)
  • Philippine Welser (1859)
  • The Doge of Venice (1863)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not: of speech joke , as in correspondence of Fritz Reuter . - Cf. Fritz Reuter: collected works and letters. - Vol. VIII: Letters / edit. by Hans Heinrich Leopoldi. (Rostock, 1990. - Reprint of the 1966/67 edition). - p. 495.
  2. ^ Karl Barthel: Die deutsche Nationalliteratur der Neuzeit , Braunschweig, 1862, page 488; Scan from the source
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 108 , 74
  4. ^ Fred Oberhauser: Literary Guide through Germany , Insel Verlag, 1983, page 387, ISBN 3-458-14083-2 ; Excerpt from the source
  5. ↑ Fedor von Zobeltitz: I lived so , Ullstein Verlag, 1934, page 124; Excerpt from the source
  6. ↑ Philippine Welser: historical play in five acts by Oskar von Redwitz, Verlag Kirchheim, 1859
personal data
SURNAME Redwitz, Oskar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redwitz, Oskar Freiherr von; Redwitz-Schmölz, Oscar Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenau (Middle Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1891
Place of death St. Gilgenberg near Bayreuth