Achim von Arnim
(b Berlin, 1781; d Wiepersdorf, 1831).Ger. poet who can claim inclusion in a music dictionary because of his co‐editorship with his future brother‐in‐law Clemens Brentano of the anthology of German ...
Adam Oehlenschläger
(1779–1850)tends to be considered the Danish Wordsworth. His writings reveal his fascination with folklore, and in 1816 he translated Märchen by Musäus, Fouqué, Hoffmann, and Chamisso into Danish, ...
August Ferdinand Bernhardi
(Berlin, 1769–1820, Berlin),a schoolmaster, who in 1808 became head of the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium, Berlin. In 1799 he married Sophie, sister of Ludwig Tieck; the marriage was dissolved in 1804. ...
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
(1767–1845),German Romanticist, critic, and philologist, chiefly known in England for his translation into German, with the assistance of his wife and others, of the plays of Shakespeare, and for his ...
Bettina von Arnim
(née1785–1859). A German romantic and social activist,Arnim wrote one tale, ‘Der Königssohn’ (‘The King's Son’) and collected two others, ‘Hans ohne Bart’ (‘Beardless Hans’) and ‘die blinde ...
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
(1801–36)German dramatist. The author of historical dramas on a grand scale, Grabbe remained largely unperformed in his short lifetime. Works such as the two-play cycle The Hohenstaufens (1827), ...
Clemens Brentano
(1778–1842), German author of poems, novellas, and literary fairy tales.Brentano was the son of a Frankfurt merchant of Italian descent and the grandson of the German novelist Sophie von ...
Das leidende Weib
A tragedy (Trauerspiel) in five acts by F. M. Klinger, written probably in 1774–5 and published anonymously in 1775. It is a chaotically constructed work said to have been written ...
Der blonde Eckbert
A story (Märchen) by L. Tieck, written in 1796 and published in 1797 in his collection Volksmärchen. Eckbert is the principal character of the frame (see Rahmen), which contains the ...
Der gestiefelte Kater
A fairy-tale in dramatic form (Ein Kindermärchen in drei Akten mit Zwischenspielen, einem Prologe und Epiloge) by L. Tieck, published in vol. 1 of his Volksmärchen in 1797 and also ...
Der getreue Eckart und der Tannenhäuser
A tale by L. Tieck, based on two traditional stories, and first published in 1799. It is in two sections. The first tells the story of Eckart's fidelity. The Duke ...
Der Runenberg
A tale by L. Tieck, published in 1804. Christian, repelled by his dull home on the plain, is drawn to the mountains. He climbs the mysterious Runenberg by moonlight and ...
Die Haimonskinder
A legend of French origin in which the four sons of Count Haimon of Dordogne fight against Charlemagne (see Karl I, der Grosse); they are Adelhart, Ritsart, Witsart, and Rainalt. ...
Die Hermannsschlacht
A five-act play (Ein Drama) in blank verse by H. von Kleist, written in 1808–9, and published by L. Tieck in 1821. It was written under the impact of the ...
Die Insel Felsenburg
Accepted title of a novel by J. G. Schnabel, published in four parts in 1731, 1732, 1736, and 1743 respectively. It appeared under the pseudonym Gisander with the descriptive title ...
Die schöne Magelone
A legend which is the subject of a chap-book (see Volksbuch) and occurs also in later adaptations. Magelone is the daughter of a king of Naples. She is already promised ...
Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau
(Bergedorf nr. Hamburg, 1745–1827, Lüneburg),worked in commerce in St Petersburg before returning to his North German homeland where he devoted himself to scholarship and writing. His work consists ...
drama and fairy tales
A fairy-tale drama is a theatrical work that uses the motifs, characters, and genre markers of the fairy tale. These plays have variously served as entertainment, socializing tools, pedagogical and ...
E. T. A. Hoffmann
(orig. Wilhelm, but adopted name Amadeus in homage to Mozart) (b Königsberg, 1776; d Berlin, 1822).Ger. writer, music critic Hoffmann, composer, and conductor. Was th. cond. from 1808 at Bamberg, ...
Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
(Brunswick, 1777–1831, Brunswick),was from 1814 a director of a minor theatre in Brunswick, and from 1826 director of the Braunschweiger Hofbühne (though he also worked for a few years ...
