Mushroom (novel)
In 1912, Rudolf Hans Bartsch published a biographical novel about the life of the composer Franz Schubert under the title Schwammerl .
Bartsch had already tried his hand at historical subjects in novels and short stories. Here he took Schubert's life freely as a model and used his historically authenticated but probably not very common nickname "mushroom". Bartsch mixed freely invented stories and legends with historically transmitted stories quite arbitrarily and for decades shaped a pseudo-Biedermeier cliché of Schubert with his depiction.
The novel became a bestseller and had a considerable influence at least on all of Schubert's biographical publications and illustrations up to the hundredth anniversary of his death in 1928.
Bartsch's novel served the librettists Heinz Reichert and Alfred Maria Willner as one of the models for the operetta Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916) by Heinrich Berté .
output
- Mushrooms. A Schubert novel . Staackmann, Leipzig 1912 ( first edition )
- Mushrooms. Roman (Heyne Nostalgia Library; Vol. 29). Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-44034-X .
literature
- Ursula Brandstätter: Musicians' biographies between fiction and reality . In: Cordula Heymann-Wentzel, Johannes Laas (ed.): Music and biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, pp. 82-105, ISBN 3-8260-2804-X (in German and English).
- Alexander Stillmark : "It was all good and fulfilled". Rudolf Hans Bartsch's Schwammerl and the making of the Schubert myth . In: Ian F. Roe (Ed.): The Biedermeier and beyond. Selected papers from the symposion, held at St. Peter's College, Oxford, from 19. – 21. September 1997 . Peter Lang Verlag, Bern 1999, pp. 225-234, ISBN 3-906761-63-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ According to information from the German National Library (Frankfurt / M.), This is the latest edition of this novel.