Otto Roquette

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Otto Roquette

Otto Roquette (born April 19, 1824 in Krotoschin near Posen , † March 18, 1896 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer.

Life

Roquette was of Huguenot descent; he was the son of District Judge Louis Roquette and his wife Antoinette Barraud. He received his first lessons from his grandfather, a Reformed pastor . In 1834 he came to Bromberg and studied philology and history at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Halle from 1846–1850 . During his studies he joined the Fürstenthal fraternity in Halle and from 1844 to 1847 the old Heidelberg fraternity of Teutonia . After traveling to Switzerland and Italy, he moved to Berlin in 1852. There he made acquaintance a. a. with August Förster , Alfred Graefe , Rudolf Kögel and Hans von Thümmel . They often met to exchange ideas with the writer Louise von François in Weißenfels .

In 1853, Roquette was brought to the Blochmann Institute in Dresden to teach German and history . In 1857 he returned to Berlin and in 1862 became professor of literary history at the Prussian War Academy , before moving to the royal trade academy in 1867 . During this time he was one of the guests at the regular meetings of the Tunnel over the Spree Society . In 1863 he became an honorary member of the St. Pauli Leipzig singers . In 1868 he was Corp. loop carrier of Teutonia Berlin . From 1869 he taught at the Darmstadt Polytechnic . In the period from 1878 to 1881 and again from 1894 until his death in 1896, he was also part-time director of the university library of the TH Darmstadt .

In 1893 he was appointed Privy Councilor. Roquette was friends with the German writer Paul Heyse and like him a member of the literary association " Rütli ".

Otto Roquette was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IB 110).

reception

With his pseudo-romantic, epigonal poetry and his fairytale-like draped verse, Roquette is a typical representative of slug-disk poetry . His works became extremely popular after 1850 and enjoyed great popularity especially in conservative circles. Roquette's post-revolutionary fashion poetry was a conscious departure from the political tendency poetry of the pre -March era . His verse epic Waldmeister's bride , which celebrates love, wine, the Rhine and youth , first appeared in 1851, had more than 50 editions in thirty years and was a sensational book success for the time. Illustrated by Arpad Schmidhammer .

Roquette also became popular with a few songs, such as the poem written in 1851 and set to music by Wilhelm Baumgartner in 1863 as a popular folk song, Still is the blooming, golden time . Roquette was also active as a storyteller, playwright, literary historian and autobiographer.

Roquette's work was later assessed as predominantly shallow and artistically worthless and is now almost forgotten.

"Dramas were his first works, like his last, he has always strived for this laurel - and yet the inner voice in this one has deceived him, the man of great art understanding and rare self-criticism"

- Karl Emil Franzos : German Poetry, Vol 6, p. 200

Works

The homage to the German wines and field flowers in front of Prince Waldmeister and Princess Rebenblüte.
From "Waldmeister's Bridal Trip". Illustration: Arpad Schmidhammer

Autobiography

  • Seventy years. Story of my life. 2 volumes. Bergstrasse, Darmstadt 1894.

stories

  • Mr. Heinrich. A German legend. Cotta, Stuttgart 1854. (2nd edition 1857)
  • The barrow. Historical narrative. Katz, Dessau 1855.
  • Stories. Art & Science, Frankfurt am Main 1859.
  • New stories. Cotta, Stuttgart 1862.
  • Susanne. Narrative. Cotta, Stuttgart 1864.
  • The legend of St. Elizabeth. Cotta, Stuttgart 1866.
  • Luginsland. Novellas. Cotta, Stuttgart 1867.
  • Pierrot. A story. In: Westermanns Jahrbuch / NF. Volume 5, 1867, pp. 337-350, 449-464, 561-574.
  • Noisy most. Narrative. In: Deutsche Romanzeitung. Vol. 5, Volume 2, 1868.
  • The paradise. Narrative. In: Deutsche Romanzeitung. Vol. 6, Volume 1, 1869.
  • Novellas. Hertz, Berlin 1870.
  • World and home. Novellas. Westermann, Braunschweig 1871/1875.
  • The Grim Reaper. 1873.
  • The snake queen. New edition. In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 16. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 221-335. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • New book of novels. Schottländer, Breslau 1884.
  • On the way, novellas. Schottländer, Breslau 1884.
  • Days of forest life. Novellas. Schottländer, Breslau 1884.
  • Big and small people in Alt-Weimar. Novellas. Schottländer, Breslau 1887.
  • Voices of spring. Novellas . Schottländer Verlag, Breslau 1890.
  • Life's mummery. Novella. Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main 1890.
  • Narrative poetry. Fontane, Berlin 1892.
  • Eccentrics. Novellas. Schottländer, Breslau 1895.
  • Krethi and Plethi. Novellas. Schottländer, Breslau 1896.
  • Day by day. Stories. Cotta, Stuttgart 1896.

Poetry

  • Waldmeister's bridal trip. A Rhine, wine and hiking fairy tale. Verse epic. Stuttgart 1851. Reprint: Sommer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902664-36-5 .
  • Poems. 3. Edition. Cotta, Stuttgart 1859 (former title: song book ).
  • The day of St. Jacob. A poem. 3. Edition. Cotta, Stuttgart 1852.
  • House Haidekuckuck. Verse epic. 1855.
  • Tree in the Odenwald. 1884.

Novels

  • Heinrich Falk. Novel in three parts. Trewendt, Berlin 1879.
  • Euphrosyne. Novel. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1877 ( German Novel Library ).
  • The alphabet of passion. Novel. Hertz, Berlin 1878.
  • In the house of the fathers. Novel. 1878.
  • The prophet school. Novel. 2 volumes. Janke, Berlin 1879.

Non-fiction

  • Life and poetry of Johann Christian Günther . Biography. 1860.
  • History of German poetry. From the oldest monuments to modern times. Stuttgart 1862/1863. Reprint: Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1879 (2 volumes in one volume).
  • Friedrich Preller . A picture of life. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1883.

theatre

  • Walpurgis. Drama in five acts. Litfass, Berlin 1850.
  • Orion. A piece of fantasy. Schlodtmann, Bremen 1851.
  • The realm of dreams. A dramatic poem in five acts. Schindler, Berlin 1853.
  • Dramatic seals. 3 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1867/1876.
  • Rhampsinite. Carnival comedy in three acts. Herbert, Darmstadt 1873.
  • The Eberhard House. Comedy in four acts. Herbert, Darmstadt 1884.

Work edition

  • Selected Works. 6 volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1893.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 589-591.
  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Roquette, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 469-478.
  • Ludwig Geiger : poets and women. Treatises and communications; new collection . Paetel Verlag, Berlin 1899, pp. 290–321.
  • Ignaz Hub : Germany's ballads and romances poet. A selection of the most beautiful and peculiar from the treasure trove of lyrical epics, together with the biographies and characteristics of the poets, taking into account the notable critical voices, Vol. 3 . 4th edition. Creuzbauer Verlag, Würzburg 1870, pp. 560-564.
  • Wilhelm Lübke : Memoirs . Verlag F. Fontane, Berlin 1891, pp. 187–190, 372.
  • Ursula Perkow : How Otto Roquette became a poet. With woodruff from Handschuhsheim on the way to fame . In: Yearbook of the Handschuhsheim district association, Heidelberg 1997, pp. 88–95 ( Internet edition )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile and importance of the fraternities in Baden in the first half of the 19th century
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 16 , 15
  3. ↑ The poem About day and night ("In the morning ', in the morning' when the sun wakes up") from Roquette's youth songs (1852) was set to music by Eugen Lasch as a piano song in 1910/11 .
  4. ↑ Franz Liszt 's oratorio of the same name is based on this text
  5. ↑ Contents: "The Interrupted Festival of Sacrifice", "The Student Choir", "Rinaldo", "The Frozen Kiss", "The Eleventh May", "The Beautiful Lily"
  6. ↑ Contents: "The Chapter About Women", "The Roof Rider", "Krachmost"
  7. ↑ as an extra supplement to the Frankfurter Zeitung
  8. ↑ Contents: "Ul von Haslach", "The traveling student", "Spindel and Thyrsus", "Ambrogio's confession", "Paris the better"
  9. ↑ from the estate published by Ludwig Fulda

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personal data
SURNAME Roquette, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Krotoschin near Poznan
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1896
Place of death Darmstadt