Robert Eduard Prutz

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Robert Prutz
Robert Prutz 1870

Robert Eduard Prutz (born May 30, 1816 in Stettin ; † June 21, 1872 ibid) was a German writer , playwright, press historian and one of the most prominent publicists of the Vormärz .

Life

Robert Prutz 'memorial in the Stettin cemetery,
1875 in the magazine Die Gartenlaube

Robert Prutz - son of a businessman - attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin . He then studied philology in Berlin , Breslau and Halle from 1834 to 1838 . In 1837 he became a corps bow wearer at Borussia Halle . The Corps later awarded him honorary membership.

He became a committed literary scholar and poet , dramaturge and university professor . With Adelbert von Chamisso he worked on the Musenalmanach and the Rheinische Zeitung and published the Hallische Jahrbucher in Halle together with Arnold Ruge . Politically suspicious because of his radical views, he retired to Jena , where he wrote the treatise Der Göttinger Dichterbund in 1841 . He was expelled from the city because of his criticism of the censorship. 1843 to 1848 he was editor of the literary historical paperback . His dramatic satire The Political Nursery , written in 1845, brought him an indictment of lese majesty , which was put down through Alexander von Humboldt's mediation. In 1846 he taught in Berlin, in 1847 he was dramaturge in Hamburg and from 1849 to 1859 he was associate professor for literature in Halle. From 1851 to 1866 he published a magazine for literature, art and public life under the title Deutsches Museum .

In 1857 he moved back to his hometown of Szczecin. In 1862 he suffered a first stroke ; Robert Prutz died in 1872 as a result of a second stroke.

His son Hans Prutz was a historian and university professor.

Pereant the Liberals

Pereant the Liberals,
Who only talk, who only brag
Always pay with words
But poor in deeds are:
Who see soon here, soon there,
Soon to turn right, left
Like the flag against the wind.

Pereant the Liberals,
Those pale, those pale,
The ones in newspapers and journals
Philosophically proceed:
But with the beggar's pain
Wisdom, with a cold heart
Pass by unmoved.

Pereant the Liberals,
The ones at feasting meals
With filled goblets
Called the Tower of Freedom
And yet for a title
Become a censor or bailiff
Or even an informer.

Robert Prutz, 1845

Works

Poetry

  • The Rhine (1840) archive.org
  • A fairy tale (1841)
  • Poems (1841)
  • Justification (1842)
  • From home (1858)
  • New Poems (1860)
  • Autumn roses (1865)
  • Book of Love (1869)

Novels

Contributions to literary history and criticism

  • The Political Poetry of the Germans (1845)
  • Lectures on the History of German Theater (1847)
  • Ludwig Holberg (1857)
  • The German Literature of the Present (1859) Second Edition, Volume 1, 1870  - Internet Archive
  • People and Books (1862)

Contributions to press history

  • History of German Journalism. For the first time worked entirely from the sources. First part. Verlag CF Kius, Hannover 1845 (a facsimile print was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen in 1971)

editor

Magazine articles

Posthumous editions

  • Prose and poetry . Edited by Heinrich Leber. Leipzig: Reclam, 1961.
  • Writings on literature and politics . Selected to an introductory ed. v. Bernd Hüppauf. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1973.
  • Between fatherland and freedom. A selection of works . Ed. U. commented v. Hartmut Kircher. With a preface v. Gustav W. Heinemann. Cologne: Leske, 1975.

literature

  • Ernst Balde: Robert Eduard Prutz . Cassel 1854 digitized MDZ
  • Edda Bergmann: I am not allowed to do the best that I can. Robert Eduard Prutz (1816–1872) . Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-932004-67-1 .
  • Edda Bergmann:  Prutz, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 748 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johannes Henning: Robert Eduard Prutz. Social revolutionary writer, journalist and literary historian from Szczecin . In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , vol. 67, episode 20 of May 20, 2017, p. 16, 4 figs.
  • Horst Kramp: The Szczecin poet Robert Prutz finally returned to his hometown. In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 42/2008, p. 4.
  • Hans Joachim Kreuzer: Epilogue to the facsimile edition of the "History of German Journalism" by Robert E. Prutz. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, pp. 423–456.
  • Reinhard Lahme: On the literary practice of bourgeois emancipation efforts. Robert Eduard Prutz. A chapter from the beginnings of academic literature in the 19th century . Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1977, ISBN 3-7896-0107-1 .
  • Wolfgang R. Langenbucher : Robert Prutz as theoretician and historian of light literature . A memory from the history of science. In: Studies on Trivial Literature . Frankfurt 1968, pp. 117-136.
  • Jacob Achilles Mähly :  Prutz, Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 678-682.
  • Ingrid Pepperle: Arnold Ruge and Robert Eduard Prutz. Its importance in the history of ideology within Young Hegelianism. The philosophical and political outlook of Arnold Ruge and Robert Eduard Prutz . Diss. Berlin 1971.
  • Werner Spilker: Robert Prutz as a newspaper scientist . Phil. Diss. Leipzig 1937.

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Prutz  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Robert Prutz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 57 , 23
personal data
SURNAME Prutz, Robert Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright, press historian and one of the most prominent publicists of the Vormärz
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1872
Place of death Szczecin