Friedrich de la moth Fouqué

Friedrich de la moth Fouqué around 1820

Friedrich Heinrich Karl baron de la moth Fouqué (aliases “Pellegrin”, “A.L.T. Franc ") (* 12. February 1777 in Brandenburg a.d. Havel; † 23. January 1843 in Berlin)was a German poet of the romance.

Fouqué received a military education, stepped as a second lieutenant into the regiment guard you to corps, participated in the Rhine campaign of 1794 and realized then first denationalizing its poetic inclinations. Until 1808 it publishedonly under the alias “Pellegrin”. By August William Schlegel with the dramatic plays (1804) introduced to the literature, he stepped the novel history of the noble knight Galmy successively with the romances of the Thal Ronceval (1805), anda beautiful duchess of Brittany (1806), the novel Alwin (1808) and the hero play Sigurd, that queue-dead (that. 1808) out, works, which already marked its later seal in material, poetic view and representation method. The straining legends of the northand French knight stories of the Middle Ages energized Fouqués fantasy at the same time and flowed together it to a wunderlich fantastic world.

Between the years 1808 - Fouqués life and densities the largest upswing took 20. Patriotic enthusiasm led it 1813 inthe numbers of the Prussian army back; it participated as second lieutenant and a ride master with the freiwilligen hunters in the battles of the war of liberation , received to 1815 the parting as a major and lived then its property nominal living with Rathenow, hospitalitypracticing and in alive traffic with all romantic contemporaries rapidly producing. As its best work with good reason Undine ( Berlin is considered 1811, 24. Aufl. 1881), a narration, their freshness and simple, only fairy tale clay/tone over those, gekünstelter in some placesfew shade and spukhaften places easily way there marriages left.

Then the romances followed: The charm ring (Nuremberg 1813; new expenditures., Braunschweig 1865) and the travels Thiodulfs, the Isländers (Hamburg 1815, 2. Aufl. 1848), beside realstrong scenes already much manners and artificial Reckenhaftigkeit exhibited. The small novels (Berlin 1814 - 19, 6 Bde.), singer love (Stuttgart 1816), the marvelous occurences counts Alethes von Lindenstein (Leipzig 1817) became by new plays (Alf and Yngwi, the Irmensäule, rune writing), knightly tragedies (the Pilgerfahrt, the Jarl of the Orkneyinseln), epische poems how: Corona (Stuttgart 1814), Karl's D. Gr. Birth and youth years (Nuremberg 1814), Bertrand you Guesclin (Leipzig 1821), and countless smaller narrations, dramas and adventures supplement; in all the same mixture of süsslicher Kraft and minniglicher Tugendhaftigkeit worked.

After the year 1820 Fouqués production became ever more unpleasant and lost all freshness, so that itself thatPublic of this manners more and more turned away. After 1830 settled after Fouqué, which had to sell nominal living, resounds (Saale) over, where he stepped out under anderm one also with public lectures on and against the spirit of the time. Its harmless romance transformed intoa gallige, feudale and frömmelnde condemnation of the modern world. Under his later writings knight Elidouc, altbretagnische legend (Leipzig 1823 ) belongs, the Saga of Gunlaugar, called to kite tongue, and Rafn the Skalden. Iceland customer 9. Century (Vienna 1826), Jakob Böhme, biographic Denkstein (Greiz 1831), the world realms at the beginning of the years 1835-40, seals (resounds 1835 - 40, 6 booklets), Prussian mourning sayings and Huldigungsgrüsse for the year 1840 (that. 1840), the Pappenheimer Kürassier;Scenes from the time of the dreissigjährigen war (Nordh. 1842; 2. Aufl., Bautzen 1853) to the particularly characteristic.

Also after Fouqué outside life concerns by the Munifizenz Friedrich of William IV. from Prussia entrückt and again to Berlin had moved, droveit away to bear itself as literary Don Quixote and gave (in community with Ludwig von Alvensleben) the newspaper for the German aristocracy (Leipz. 1840-42) out. Fouqué died abandoned and forgets 23. January 1843 in Berlin. Its life history (resounds1840) it had published just like the collection of its selected works (1841, 12 Bde.) still. After its death the novel appeared waste and penalty or the soul mirrors (1844); Religious one of poems (1846, 2. Aufl. 1858) and Christian poems (1862).

Its wife was Caroline de la moth Fouqué, born of Briest (around 1775-1831). He was a friend of Adelbert of Chamisso.

Nachleben

its grave is on the old person garrison cemetery in Berlin center, small Rosenthaler road, corner line road.

works

• dramatic plays, Berlin, Unger 1804
• romances of the Thal Ronceval, Berlin 1805
• history ofnoble knight Galmy and a beautiful duchess 1808 works selected by
• Brittany, 1806

• Alwin, 12 Bde., resounds 1841.

Postum

• waste and penalty or the soul mirrors, Berlin 1844.
• Religious one of poems, Berlin 1846, 2.Aufl. 1858.
• Christian poems, Berlin 1862.

literature

• Friedrich Heinrich Karl, baron de la moth Fouqué, in: Meyers encyclopedia, 4. Aufl. 1888, Bd. 6, S. 468
• Arno Schmidt: Fouqué and some its contemporaries (Bläschke 1958;2. improved and considerably increased task of 1960), in the saving fields expenditure as III/1 (1993)

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• works of Friedrichde la moth Fouqué as on-line texts in the project Gutenberg DE (with introduction)

• works to the Arno Schmidt Referenzbibliothek
  • expenditure for work (selection) (pdf); German type Reprint)
  • Alethes of lime tree stone (pdf)
  • Alwin (pdf); (German type Reprint of the expenditure of 1808)
  • Alwin (pdf)
  • the Saga of the Gunlaugur (pdf); (German type Reprint thatExpenditure of 1826)
  • Undine (pdf)
• work proofs in the Internet
• http://www.fouque-gesellschaft.de/ - Fouqué society Berlin Brandenburg e. V.

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