Otto Julius Inkermann

Otto Julius Inkermann , pseudonym C. O. Sternau (born January 23, 1823 in Delitzsch ; † 1862 ) was a German writer and bookseller .

Life, work and reception

Inkermann was born in Delitzsch as the son of tax collector Jacob Adolf Gottlieb Inkermann. At the end of 1841 he published "his youth songs " under the pseudonym CO Sternau in the first edition of his volume of poems Buds. Poems by CO Sternau . Praised by the poet Christoph August Tiedge , who had already read them as a manuscript, they were published by Emil Baensch Verlag in Magdeburg . In 1842 he had the work Mein Orient follow , also in Magdeburg . In 1845, R. Falckenberg published his manuscript The Secrets of Magdeburg , a "local farce with singing in two acts", which was premiered on November 17, 1844 in Magdeburg. In April 1848 Inkermann published the book The Poor under his pseudonym at Johann Georg Schmitz's publishing house in Cologne . Rheinisches Dichter-Album out. It contained contributions by Ernst Moritz Arndt , Ayna, Niklas Becker , Roderich Benedix , Heinrich Dippel, Hermann Hersch , Alexander Kaufmann , Gottfried Kinkel , Wolfgang Müller , Gustav Pfarrius , Karl Simrock and Ernst Weyden . He himself contributed his novella Veilchen-Marie (p. 183) and his own poems, including a German national anthem in 1848 (p. 151), the romantic New Rhine Song (p. 155), which was published in 1867 under the title Streams of her crowd was set to music by Peter Johann Peters to a folk and student song, as well as the poem Die Todten von Berlin (p. 178). The work was dedicated to the “ needy in Silesia ”, whose suffering he saw threatened with being “pushed into the background” by the “flood of the latest events”, which he interpreted as “the overthrow of all existing state and bourgeois conditions ” . Inkermann's New Fairy Tale Book with illustrations by Georg Osterwald was also published in Cologne in 1848 .

Inkermann's poetry found its way into the romantic music creation of his time: In the spring of 1849, the composer Joachim Raff in Stuttgart wrote Inkermann's Two Italian Songs (op. 50) for a poem . The work for alto or baritone accompanied by the pianoforte was published in 1852. In 1850 Inkermann's binding text for Carl Maria von Weber's incidental music Preciosa was published by a Berlin publishing house. Jacques Offenbach set some of his texts to music in Cologne in 1848/49. In 1853 Johannes Brahms added lines from Inkermann's love song Junge Liebe to the Andante of his Piano Sonata No. 3 as the motto . He also used lines from Inkermann's national romantic poem An die Heimat in his quartets for four solo voices with piano (op. 64).

Web links

• Works by CO Sternau (Otto Julius Inkermann) , website in the portal deutscheslied.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handwritten chronicle from 1816 to 1952: Entry from November 11, 1941 , website in the portal stadtarchiv-delitzsch.de , accessed on January 3, 2016
2. ^ Die Bayerische Landbötin , Munich, No. 153 of December 23, 1841, p. 1348 ( Google Books )
3. ↑ See foreword to CO Sternau: Knopsen. Poems by CO Sternau . Second, expanded edition, Verlag von Emil Baensch, Magdeburg 1844, p. IX ( Google Books , digitized version )
4. ↑ See supplement to the literary newspaper , No. 50, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1842, Sp. 1135 ( Google Books )
5. ^ CO Sternau: The secrets of Magdeburg. Local farce with singing in two acts . R. Falckenberg and Comp., Magdeburg 1845 ( digitized version )
6. ↑ Stream your crowd (only on the Rheine) , website in the portal volksliederarchiv.de , accessed on January 3, 2016
7. ^ CO Sternau (ed.): To the poor. Rhenish poet album . Published by Johann Georg Schmitz, Cologne 1848 ( digitized version )
8. ^ CO Sternau: New fairy tale book . Verlag Johann Georg Schmitz, Cologne 1848 ( digitized version )
9. ^ Mark Thomas: A Catalog of the Music of Joachim Raff . (= Facsimile of the original by Albert Schäfer: Chronological-Systematic Directory of Joachim Raff's Works . Wiesbaden 1888), raff.org/lulu.com, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4478-7433-1 , p. 22 f. ( Google Books )
10. ↑ CO Sternau: connecting text to CM von Weber's complete music: Preziosa . Schlesinger'sche book and music store, Berlin 1850 ( digitized version )
11. ↑ Offenbach, Jacques, Jakob ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Entry on Marielle or Sergeant and Commandant (CO Sternau) in the operone.de portal , accessed on April 21, 2017 
12. ^ Peter Clive: Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, Inc., Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-8108-5721-6 , p. 450 ( Google Books )
13. ↑ Katharina Eickhoff: Home, or: Where you are not, there is happiness. Site inspection with obstacles (1) . In: SWR2 music lesson . Manuscript in the swr.de portal , p. 10 ( PDF )