Der Dichter und der Risches: Leben und Werk des Michael Beer (1800-1833) - Hardcover

Osterkamp, Ernst

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3835357417 ISBN 13: 9783835357419

Publisher: Wallstein Verlag GmbH, 2024

Synopsis

A rediscovery: life and work of the forgotten poet Michael Beer, whom his funeral games made famous and who had to fight against the "Risches", anti-Semitism. The poet Michael Beer who died early and soon forgotten after his death was one of the successful mourning games "The Paria" and "Struense". ichmost German dramof its time. Ernst Osterkamp represents the life and work of Michael Beer from a respected Jewish parents' home. A representative figure emerges in many ways for the literary life of the first third of the century with outstanding artistic and political relationships. Beer was a cosmopolitan who was just as at home in Paris, Naples and Munich as in his native city of Berlin and maintained excitingly friendly relations with Karl Immermann, Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne. He possessed an impressive understanding of the form problems of the drama in its time, especially of the genre competition of opera and drama (his eldest brother was the acclaimed opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer) and of the possibility and impossibility of historical drama. He resisted anti-Semitism, the "Risches", with all his strength. Osterkamp's empathetic description of Michael Beer's life and work now appears 200 years after the Weimar performance of the »Paria« supported by Goethe on 6 November 1824, in which Beer has reflected the Jewish fate of marginalization in the mirror of the Indian caste being. But Goethe did not want to perceive this..

Edition details

• Publisher: Wallstein Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3835357417
• ISBN 13: 9783835357419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256