Wilhelm Grothe

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Wilhelm Grothe (born October 5, 1830 in Berlin ; † February 13, 1892 ) was a German writer, actor and publisher. He was a representative of Renaissanceism .

Life and works

Wilhelm Grothe, son of a school principal, studied history and philology. He was a partner in Richard Sandrog & Co. from 1860 to 1862 and from 1863 the owner of the Wilh company. Grothe and from 1867 owner of Wilh. Grothe's range. Among other things, he wrote a Borgia trilogy; He wrote several works on the theater in the series From the kingdom of lamps and make-up .

Julia Ilgner suggested the term "Renaissance novels" to categorize his epic historical poetry. His Cesare Borgia as a representative of the Panitalia idea in The Duke of Valentinois is allusive to the German situation in the 1860s.

Grothe was a prolific writer:

In 1861 he published Sword and Hood or King Wenzeslav and his own , Nordlands-Sagen and Erbachau. The novel Fog and Sunshine came out of the life of a poet in 1862 . The volume of short stories What my eye saw and my ear heard comes from the year 1863 . In 1864 the novel A Demon and the saga Schildhorn and Teufelssee appeared , in 1865 Uncle Dickchen came out, in 1866 the comic novel Komödiantenstreich .

He published the Pope's Children in 1867 . The historical novel The Duke of Valentinois as well as theologian and comedian comes from the same year . In 1868 theatrical pleasure and suffering for actors as well as hatred and love for women came out, in 1869 shine and fall .

In 1876 he published Kinder des Glückes , 1877 Belladonna , followed in 1878 The Sword of the Rebels or The Rose von Geyersberg or Ritterstolz und Peasant bondage . In 1880 Barholomäus Blume came. The mayor of Marienburg out, 1881 Under the winged lion , In 1882 his historical novel Russian Rebels was published.

He also published several dramatic works: Richelieu came out in 1874, and Zambo and Strafford in 1875 .

In 1883, Grothes libretto for the opera Sangeskönig Hiarne and Das Tyrsingschwert was printed in Munich . The music came from Heinrich Marschner . The premiere took place on September 13, 1863 in the Frankfurt National Theater.

Apparently without a date, but probably around 1862, Clara Liedtke appeared , a souvenir sheet for the actress Clara Stich, who died in 1862 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project historical novel. Database on www.uibk.ac.at
  2. ^ Mathias Herweg: Cultures of Reception. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-110-26499-9 , pp. 174 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ^ Mathias Herweg: Cultures of Reception. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-110-26499-9 , p. 180 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ A digitized version of King Hiarne can be found at www.loc.gov
  5. ^ Margaret Ross Griffel: Operas in German. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, ISBN 978-1-442-24797-0 , p. 419 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
personal data
SURNAME Grothe, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grothe, Johann Georg Wilhelm (full name); Rittberg, Hugo von (pseudonym); Gray, Carl (pseudonym); Gray, Karl (pseudonym); Ehtorg, Carl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1892