German literature, the greatest works: after a look at the life of the author, they are more fun

As you can read in the article "German literature, the greatest works - why it is worth reading" , there are good reasons to read the greatest works of German literature

Even a supposed boring can be quite exciting from the right angle of view, and these classics can make yourself more exciting - a little background knowledge helps first create real interest, as should now be proven in an overview of the life of Adalbert Stifter :

Adalbert Stifter - a fairly tragic figure

Adalbert Stifter was born in a small village in the Böhmerwald in 1805, today Horní Planá in the Czech Republic , close to the Austrian border. Horní Planá has a little more than 2,000 inhabitants and, apart from a few memorial sites around Adalbert Stifter with the "Upper Planner Talks" ("Hornoplánské Rozpravy") every autumn has some politicians, writers, artists and interested contemporary witnesses, but probably has just as little leisure fun for adolescents as at that time at Adalbert Stifter.

Not that Adalbert would have had time or money for leisure fun: his father died in an accident when he was 12 years old, his mother Magdalena raised him alone with very little money, the teen had to work hard in agriculture by Grandfather's founder. Only his other grandfather realized that little Adalbert had a lot in his brain, he enforced that Adalbert was allowed to go to the higher school (at that time the Latin schools were called).

The Latin School of the young founder must have been really great, a Benedictine pen in Kremsmünster in a great landscape, his school -long school time later called Stifter the best time of his life (although he also had to read the old and new poets there).

Although this poet had apparently inspired him and he wrote his first works right after his high school, Adalbert was also supposed to learn something decent and started studying law . BAföG did not exist at the time, Stifter financed his studies as a private house teacher, which requires that he had his thoughts together.

But that was not that, founder fell unhappily in love with the rich merchant daughter Fanny Greipl. It was initially very impressed, but her mother thought the poor student, who didn't know whether he should study law or would rather "do art", did not fit at all and was rotting the relationship. Stifter suffered very, with negative consequences, to his work, in 1830 he broke off his studies without a degree.

Now Stifter had how many unhappy people had the idea that other mothers had beautiful daughters - he tied with the hat maker Amalia Mohaupt in 1837. Not only a good idea, Amalia not only turned out to be rather simplified, but also as rather wasteful, she had given up, as was customary at the time.

In his emergency, founder even begins to paint paintings that brought in a little money, but only moved up to some extent when he published the narrative “Der Condor” in a Viennese art and literature magazine , a modest success that follows the story “Field Blumen” .

The publisher of the art magazine then promotes him until Stifter becomes famous “Abdia's” This in turn brought him a lucrative post as a tutor, with the son of the famous prince Metternich .

Stifter was now material independent in his life for the first time in his life, at 37 years. In the following years he wrote his main works, 1844 "Brigitta" and "The Old Seal" in 1844, "The Hagestolz" and "The Waldsteig" in 1845.

However, the paper turned back very quickly, the last two volumes of the studies, which were released in 1850, had no success, the newcomer was sharply criticized by the already established poet Friedrich Hebbel : Stifter embodies a "broad and broadest description nature" and "hole rhetorically to Poland" .

If you read a text from the language-faced, even in the most respected newspapers of the time published, in direct comparison to a founder text, you tend to consent ...

In the revolutionary year 1848, the revolutionary supporter and advanced liberal founders were definitely moving to Linz , where he appointed school council and the state conservator , but was also increasingly plagued by financial worries. His probably happy marriage was burdened by childlessness and the mysterious death of a drawing daughter, his cirrhosis of the liver caused more and more symptoms - on January 26, 1868, founders cut the carotid artery on the bedside with a razor and died two days later.

Already the facts of this summary of Stifter's life path move and affect attractive people from the officially available data, but with a curious reader with a bit of a sense of drama, the questions are now just beginning:

If the beloved Fanny Greipl found founders quite good, how could her mother destroy the connection? Was founder just too "lukewarm", or too unsafe, or was money involved? If he was now a replacement with Amalia Mohaupt, why did he really have to marry her if she did not meet him mentally and also wasted his money?

Does Hebbel's keen criticism have to do that founder can only record the initial success, was this criticism, in addition to all justification, was also a kind of negative campaign by the VIPS, which founder could not defend itself?

Why was Stifter from his - even then completely decent - salary as a school council and the state conservator? Did Amalia still spend his money in excessive quantities? If the marriage to Amalia was supposedly so happy, why tore daughter Juliane from home several times, why was her body found in the Danube? An unbearable handling of the founder, accident, suicide or a crime?

You can already see, with a little imagination, Stifter Life is really quite adventurous and dramatic, a crime writer should actually lick his fingers after this template.

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