Rudolf von Gottschall

Rudolf Gottschall

Rudolf von Gottschall, age portrait

Rudolf Karl Gottschall , from 1877 by Gottschall (born September 30, 1823 in Breslau ; † March 21, 1909 in Leipzig ) was a German playwright , epic poet , storyteller , literary historian and literary critic .

Life

Rudolf von Gottschall, son of a Prussian artillery officer, attended the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule (Rastenburg) . After high school he studied from 1841 at the University of Königsberg law . There he joined the Hochhemia . Because of political agitation relegated , he continued his studies at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Breslau continued. In 1843 he became a member of the Old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks . He finished his studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . With a thesis on the Roman punishment for adultery, he was in Königsberg in 1846 his doctorate .

In 1847 he became a dramaturge at the City Theater in Königsberg . He went to Hamburg in 1848 and to Breslau in 1852 . There he married Marie Freiin v. Seherr-Thoss (from whom there is an exchange of letters with Leopold Schefer ) and went to Posen in 1862 , where he was briefly editor of the Ostdeutsche Zeitung . From 1864 - the year in which he moved to Leipzig - until 1888 Gottschall was the editor of the Blätter für literary entertainment and Our Time (both magazines owned by the FA Brockhaus publishing house ) in Leipzig. 1877 Gottschall was for his services to the German literature of Wilhelm I as King of Prussia ennobled .

Gottschall's progressive work was respected during his lifetime, his dramas were often played. His works were characterized primarily by independent judgment, but also by time-related criticism, which contributed to the fact that he was quickly forgotten after his death.

chess

Gottschall was president of the Augustea Leipzig chess society for many years and, after his resignation, its honorary president. At his suggestion, the German Chess Federation was brought into being on July 18, 1877 . Although he was a chess official and a regular visitor to Augustea , he never played in a single chess tournament. He limited his game to individual games, for example with his friend Adolf Anderssen during his studies in Breslau. Gottschall's son Hermann made a name for himself as a chess player, editor of the German chess newspaper and chess composer .

Works

• Songs of the present (poems). Theile, Königsberg 1842. ( digitized version )
• Censorship refugees (poems). Verlag des Literarisches Comptoirs, Zurich and Winterthur 1843. ( digitized version )
• Ulrich von Hutten (drama). Theile, Königsberg 1843. ( digitized version )
• Robespierre (drama). Burckhardt, Neisse 1845. ( digitized version )
• Barricade songs (poems), 1848 digitized
• Wiener Immortellen (poems). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1848. ( digitized version )
• The Marseillaise (dramatic poem). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1849. ( digitized version )
• Lambertine by Méricourt (drama). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1850. ( digitized version )
• Ferdinand von Schill (drama) Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1850. ( digitized version )
• The goddess. A song of songs from the woman (epic). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1853. ( digitized )
• Pitt and Fox (comedy). Kolbe, Berlin 1854. ( digitized version )
• German national literature in the first half of the 19th century . Trewndt and Granier, Breslau 1855 (2 volumes) ( digitized volume 1 )
• Poetics. Poetry and its technology [from] the standpoint of the modern age . Breslau 1858 Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• Mazeppa (drama). Brockhaus, Leipzig 1865. ( digitized )
• Maja. A lotus flower wreath (epic). Trewendt, Breslau 1864. ( Digitized 2nd edition 1877 )
• Travel pictures from Italy . Trewendt, Breslau 1864. ( digitized version )
• The diplomats (comedy). Kolbe, Berlin 1865. ( digitized version )
• Dramatic works . 12 vols., 1865-80
• The Nabob (drama), 1866. ( digitized version )
• Portraits and Studies , 4 vols., 1870/71
• Die Welt des Schwindels (comedy), 1871
• Janus. Peace and War Poems (Poems), 1873
• The new Plutarch , 12 vols., 1874–88
• Under the spell of the black eagle (novel) 3 vol., 1876
• Arabella Stuart (drama), 1877
• Wilted leaves (novel), 3 vol., 1877, 1st volume
• The golden calf (novel), 3 vols., 1880
• The Inheritance of Blood (novel), 3 vols., 1882
• Schulröschen (story), 1886
• Merlin's Walks (Epic), 1887
• Bunte Blüthen (Poems), 1891
• Stunted Existences (novel), 2 vol., 1892
• Gutenberg (drama), 1893 digitized
• Modern Nerd (novel), 2 vols., 1896
• The Stone Guest (novel), 1897
• The enchanted castle (novel), 1898
• Rahab (drama), 1898
• From my youth (autobiography). 1898. ( digitized version )
• On the criticism of modern drama . 1900. ( digitized version )
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe , 1901
• On free paths (novel), 2 vols., 1901
• Parasites (novel), 1906
• Late songs (poems). Silesian Publishing House, Breslau 1906.

literature

• Moritz Brasch: Rudolf von Gottschall. A literary portrait. Gottwald, Leipzig 1893. ( digitized version )
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 162-163.
• Ernst-Ullrich Pinkert: "You sing like Tyrtaeus once sang". Rudolf Gottschall's poem “Heine” in the versions from 1842 and 1849. In: Heine-Jahrbuch, 29 (1990), pp. 175–183.
• Alfred Stroedel: The historical verse dramas Rudolf v. Gottschalls. Dresden: v. Baensch pen 1921.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf von Gottschall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Rudolf von Gottschall  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Rudolf von Gottschall in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gottschall's manuscripts and letters in libraries and archives
• Rudolf Gottschall: The Poetry , 1858; in the lyric theory project
• Rudolf Gottschall: Review of Geibel, New Poems , 1858; in the lyric theory project
• Rudolf Gottschall (kultur-in-ostpreussen.de)
• Works by Rudolf von Gottschall in the Gutenberg-DE project

swell

1. ↑ Dissertation: De adulterii poenis iure Romano constitutis . ( Digitized version )
2. ^ Bettina Clausen , Leopold Schefer Bibliography , Frankfurt am Main 1985.
3. ↑ Obituary in the Deutsche Schachzeitung 1909, p. 124.