Robert Heller

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Robert Heller, by Otto Speckter (1854)

Wilhelm Robert Heller (born November 24, 1812 in Großdrebnitz ; † May 7, 1871 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist , writer and publicist .

Life

In memory of Robert Heller at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg

Wilhelm Robert Heller attended grammar school in Bautzen and Kreuzschule in Dresden . From 1832 to 1835 he studied law in Leipzig and first entered the civil service, but soon became a freelance writer. In 1838 he founded the fiction magazine Rosen and in 1842 the pocket book Perlen . 1840 to 1843 was acquainted with Robert Schumann and corresponded with him.

In 1848 Heller went to Frankfurt am Main as a reporter from the Paulskirche and a year later published the two-volume work Breasts from the Paulskirche anonymously . As Gervinus's successor , Heller joined the editorial team of the Deutsche Zeitung . In 1851 he went to Hamburg via Berlin, where he became editor of the feature pages of the Hamburger Nachrichten .

Max Kalbeck , the first biographer of Johannes Brahms , judged that Heller “brought the level of Hamburg music criticism to a decent level with his witty musical reports”. He goes on to write: "The fertile novelist and short story writer was the first to speak out warmly for him as a critic in the Tonkunstler's hometown."

Heller's works of fiction are assigned to the direction of Junge Deutschland .

Heller was married to the Hamburg patrician daughter Ida von Destinon (1848-1892). Because of an allegedly insulting criticism, it almost came to a duel with the actor Bogumil Dawison .

Works

  • Thoughts on H. Heine's romantic school ", in:" Der Komet ", supplement, no. 48. 1835
  • Fragments from the papers of a wandering apprentice tailor . 1836
  • The turning point . 1837
  • Novellas . 3 volumes, including "The Conquest of Jerusalem", "The Faithless", "The Beggar", "The Finkensteller", 1837–1840
  • Alhambra . 1838
  • The surreptitious trader . 2 volumes 1838
  • The bulletin board . 1838, 2 volumes
  • The sister of Lazarus , in: "Rosen", January, February 1839
  • A summer trip . 1840
  • The last will , comedy in 5 Aufz., Leipzig, Tauchnitz, beginn. of the 1840s, 56 p
  • Novellas from the South . 3 volumes 1841–1843
  • A new world . 2 volumes 1843
  • The Prince of Orange . Historical novel 3 volumes, 1843
  • The Caracas earthquake . 1844
  • The buck . 2 volumes 1844
  • The Prince of Orange . 3 volumes 1844
  • The imperial in Saxony . Historical novel 2 volumes, 1845
  • The Albanese . 2 volumes [around 1845]
  • A steppe journey . Romantic narrative, 1846
  • Seven winter evenings . 2 volumes of short stories and stories, 1846
  • Schiller's mother . Lecture in the Schillerhaus Leipzig, 1846
  • Kyselak. An immortality of the 19th century , in: Sächsischer Volkskalender on the year 1847
  • Der Rabener in Tharant , in "Perlen", 6th year, Nuremberg 1847, pp. 179-310; in: "Nachgelassene Erzählungen", Vol. 3, pp. 421-564, arranged for the stage by Franz Lubojatzky, under the title `The People's Advocates or the Politics of the Satyre´
  • Florian Geyer . 3 volumes 1848
  • Half-length pictures from the Paulskirche . 2 volumes 1849
  • The Reichspostreiter in Ludwigsburg . Historical novella 1857
  • The mother's secret . 1959
  • High Friends ", novella . 1862
  • Posenschrapers Thilde . Historical novel 1863
  • Prima donna . Historical novel, 2 volumes 1871, pp. 304 + 284, Janke Berlin
  • Selected stories . 3 volumes 1857–1862
  • Posenschrapers Thilde . 1863
  • Prima donna . 2 volumes 1871
  • Legacy writings . 5 volumes 1874

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Kalbeck, Johannes Brahms , Volume 1 (1833–1862), 4th edition, Berlin 1921, p. 422 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Heller, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Wilhelm Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Großdrebnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1871
Place of death Hamburg