Wilhelm Waiblinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Waiblinger (born November 21, 1804 in Heilbronn , Duchy of Württemberg ; † January 17, 1830 in Rome , Papal States , today Italy ) was a German poet and writer who was best known for his friendship with Friedrich Hölderlin and Eduard Mörike .
Life
Waiblinger was born in Heilbronn in 1804. In the family he was called Fritz and did not call himself Wilhelm until 1824. In 1806 he came to Stuttgart with his family , and in 1817 to Reutlingen . In November 1819 he became an assistant clerk at the Urach Higher Regional Court and attended lectures in the neighboring lower theological seminary. In the summer of 1820 he returned to Stuttgart and attended the upper grammar school there . During this time, the first poems were written, which made the then minor first known.
From 1822 he studied theology at the Tübingen monastery in order to be able to study philology as a minor . On July 3, 1822, Waiblinger first met the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who had already been considered insane for a decade and a half, in the Hölderlin Tower in Tübingen , where he was a frequent guest throughout his entire studies. He first dealt with these encounters in his novel Phaeton (1823), which earned him enormous admiration among students; in addition, his cycle of poems, “Songs of the Greeks”, was launched. He later portrayed Hölderlin in his essay Friedrich Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness , which is considered the beginning of Hölderlin's research.
After a relationship with Julie Michaelis, sister of the Tübingen lawyer Adolph Michaelis , a scandalous relationship at the time , which became public in 1824 on the occasion of an arson trial, the victim of which Julies was the uncle Salomo Michaelis , who opposed the relationship , Waiblinger renounced the Christian moral appearance that he had to give himself because of his theological studies, and indulged in debauchery, which was also reflected in his works. In the period that followed, he wrote his Songs of Lost and Found Three Days in the Underworld . After the publication of these works, he was excluded from further studies on September 25, 1826 by the monastery management, who had tried to protect the gifted man after the scandalous relationship .
Friendships
Wilhelm Waiblinger is considered to be the “young savage” of the Biedermeier period, whom his posterity evidently largely ignored for moral reasons. He made many friendships, of which the homoerotic relationship with Eduard Mörike was certainly one of the most important. Waiblinger's friends, supporters and admirers also included u. a. Gustav Schwab , August von Platen , Friedrich von Matthisson , Johann Heinrich Dannecker , Matthias Schneckenburger , Eduard Gnauth , Carl Miedke and Christian Friedrich Wurm . On his deathbed he appointed his friend Karl Wilhelm Schluttig as the administrator of the estate, who also died in 1830 and was buried right next to Waiblinger in Rome on the Cimitero acattolico near the Cestius pyramid .
Italy trip to Rome
In the autumn of 1826, Waiblinger set out on a trip to Italy at the instigation of the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta and came to Rome , which he found attractive both from a cultural and historical perspective and in terms of its permissive sexuality. From 1827 he lived in a wild marriage with Nena Carlenza and wrote works that describe everyday scenes from life in Italy. In Rome he completed the Hölderlin biography in 1827/28. After a trip to Sicily he returned to Rome in the autumn of 1829 weak, suffered pneumonia and died at the age of 25 on January 17, 1830 in a house in Via Giulia opposite the Fontana del Mascherone (picture) .
Appreciation
The Wilhelm Waiblinger House in Heilbronn at Schützenstraße 16, at the corner of Schießhausstraße (near the main train station) is named after the poet Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger and today houses the Stadt- und Kreisjugendring Heilbronn eV and various clubs and organizations such as B. the Mac IG Heilbronn or the activists of the OpenStreetMap group.
estate
Wilhelm Waiblinger's estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Parts of it can be seen in the permanent exhibition “Unterm Parnass” at the Schiller National Museum in Marbach.
Works
- Phaeton (1823, philosophical novel from his high school days)
- 1. Volume as digitized and full text in the German Text Archive
- 2nd volume as digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive
- Tales from Greece (1823)
- Songs of the Greeks (1823)
- Songs of aberration
- Three days in the underworld (1826)
- Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness (1827/28)
- Flowers of leisure from Rome (1829)
- Paperback from Italy and Greece (1829/30)
- Collected Works (1839/40)
- Poems (1844, edited by Eduard Mörike )
- Pictures from Naples and Sicily (1879)
Work edition
- Works and letters , ed. by Hans Koeniger. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7681-9823-5
literature
- Stefan Andressohn: Wilhelm Waiblinger and the fine arts. Frankfurt / Main 2007.
- Lee Byron Jennings: An Early German Vampire Tale. Wilhelm Waiblinger's “Olura” (first published in 1986) . In: Suevica . Contributions to Swabian literary and intellectual history 9 (2001/2002), Stuttgart 2004 [2005] ISBN 3-88099-395-5 , pp. 295–306
- Michael Dischinger: Wilhelm Waiblingers "Poetic Existence" Lit, Münster 1991 ISBN 3-88660-750-X
- Hartmut Fröschle: Wilhelm Waiblinger as a people psychologist . In: Suevica . Contributions to Swabian Literature and Intellectual History 7 (1993) Stuttgart 1994 [1995] pp. 69–80. ISBN 3-88099-311-4
- Leonie Fuhrmann: Epigonality and Originality: On the Identity Problem in Wilhelm Waiblinger's Work. Dissertation Heidelberg 2000.
- Christiane Hansen: Transformations of the Phaethon Myth in German Literature. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, pp. 185–200.
- Peter Härtling : Waiblingers Augen Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1987 ISBN 3-472-86657-8
- Hermann Hesse : In the Pressel garden house. A story from old Tübingen first in 1914 (Westermanns MONTHLYhefte). - Spellings also: ... Pressel'schen ... A drawing of ... . Frequently reprinted, partly as self. Writing (e.g. 1920; 1950; 1964; Reclam, Ditzingen 1991 ISBN 3-15-008912-3 ; Heckenhauer, Tübingen 1998 ISBN 3-9806079-0-9 ; also as audio CD ), often also in collective works: z. BH Hesse & Karl Isenberg: Hölderlin. Documents from his life Insel, Frankfurt, first in 1925; ibid. 1976 ISBN 3-458-01921-9 (series: it 221); or: H. Hesse: Heumond. Early Stories Structure, Berlin 1985 (as well as in other volumes of short stories by Hesse); or: Rolf Hochhuth (Hg): The great masters. German storytellers of the 20th century vol. 1, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh (no year - approx. 1965); or: Hanns Martin Elster (ed.): The German Novelle of the Present German Book Association, Berlin 1927, pp. 100–131; or in: H. Hesse: In the old sun and other stories Reclam, Leipzig 1977 & 1979; or: Claude Hill (Ed.): Three Nobel Prize Winners. Hauptmann , Mann , Hesse With Biographical Sketches, Notes and Vocabulary (3 stories in German; next to Hesse: Bahnwärter Thiel von H. & Kleine Herr Friedemann von M.) Harper & Brothers, New York 1948. - A story from Waiblinger's student years about a visit, together with Mörike, to the sick Hölderlin in the later so-called Hölderlin tower .
- Ralf Oldenburg: Wilhelm Waiblinger. Literature and bourgeois existence. Osnabrück 2002.
- Helmut G. Schütz: On the Waiblinger picture in Geiselhart's pictures . In: Wilhelm Waiblinger: songs of confusion. With drawings by Curt Hans Chrysostomus Geiselhart. Wurmlingen 1981. ISBN 3-88466-038-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Waiblinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Wilhelm Waiblinger at Zeno.org .
- Works by Wilhelm Waiblinger in the Bibliotheca Augustana
- The poems of WF Waiblinger
- Works by Wilhelm Waiblinger in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ^ Waiblinger, Wilhelm: Stories and letters. Single and ed. by Monique Cantre. Klöpfer & Meyer 2011, p. 11
- ↑ Hergemöller, Bernd-Ulrich: Man for man. A biographical lexicon. Suhrkamp 2001, pp. 718-720.
- ^ Holdings: Waiblinger, Wilhelm (1804–1830) , accessed on November 4, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waiblinger, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waiblinger, Wilhelm Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1830 |
| Place of death | Rome |