Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano | |
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University of Halle | |
Period | Romantic |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable works | Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
Relatives | Bettina von Arnim (sister) Christian Brentano (brother) Sophie von La Roche (grandmother) Franz Brentano (nephew) Lujo Brentano (nephew) Gisela von Arnim (niece) |
Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano /brɛnˈtɑːnoʊ/; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.
Biography
Clemens Brentano was born to Peter Anton Brentano and Maximiliane von La Roche,
From 1798 to 1800 Brentano lived in Jena, the first center of the romantic movement. In 1801, he moved to Göttingen, and became a friend of Achim von Arnim. He married writer Sophie Mereau on 29 October 1803. In 1804, he moved to Heidelberg and worked with Arnim on Zeitungen für Einsiedler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. After his wife Sophie died in 1806 he married a second time in 1807 to Auguste Bussmann (whose half-sister, Marie de Flavigny, later by marriage the Countess Marie d'Agoult, would become the companion of pianist and composer Franz Liszt). In the years between 1808 and 1818, Brentano lived mostly in Berlin,[3] and from 1819 to 1824 in Dülmen, Westphalia.
In 1818, weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled life, he returned to the practice of the
It was claimed that from 1802 until her death she bore the wounds of the
The latter part of his life he spent in Regensburg, Frankfurt and Munich, actively engaged in promoting the Catholic faith. Brentano assisted Ludwig Achim von Arnim, his brother-in-law, in the collection of folk-songs forming Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–1808),[4] which Gustav Mahler drew upon for his song cycle. In 1835, Swiss painter Emilie Linder, painted the famous portrait of him.[7] He died in Aschaffenburg.
Brentano, whose early writings were published under the pseudonym Maria, belonged to the Heidelberg group of German romantic writers, and his works are marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt, bizarre modes of expression. His first published writings were Satiren und poetische Spiele (Leipzig, 1800), a romance Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter (2 vols., Frankfort, 1801), and a musical drama Die lustigen Musikanten (Frankfort, 1803). Of his dramas the best are Ponce de Leon (1804), Victoria und ihre Geschwister (Berlin, 1817) and Die Grundung Prags (Pesth, 1815).[4]
On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz (published posthumously in 1852); his short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl (1817), which has been translated into English, were very popular.[4]
Brentano's collected works, edited by his brother Christian, appeared at Frankfurt in 9 vols. (1851–1855). Selections have been edited by J. B. Diel (1873), M. Koch (1892), and J. Dohmke (1893). See J. B. Diel and William Kreiten, Klemens Brentano (2 vols, 1877–1878), the introduction to Koch's edition, and R. Steig, A. von Arnim und K. Brentano (1894).[4]
In his honor the Clemens Brentano prize is awarded for German literature.
Musical settings and cultural references
Richard Strauss set six poems by Brentano in Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, in 1918, which are also known as his Brentano Lieder.
Brentano's work is referenced in
Poems
- Eingang
- Frühlingsschrei eines Knechtes
- Abendständchen
- Lore Lay
- Auf dem Rhein
- Wiegenlied
- An Sophie Mereau
- Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden
- Der Spinnerin Lied
- Aus einem kranken Herzen
- Hast du nicht mein Glück gesehen?
- Frühes Lied
- Schwanenlied
- Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik
- Romanzen vom Rosenkranz
- Einsam will ich untergehn
- Hörst du wie die Brunnen rauschen
- Rückblick
Religious works
- Die Barmherzigen Schwestern in Bezug auf Armen- und Krankenpflege (Care of the Poor and Sick by the Sisters of Mercy ) (1831) (New Edition edited by Renate Moering)
- Lehrjahre Jesu (The Formative Years of Jesus) (1822) Part I and II (Edited by Jürg Mathes); 1983 edition by ISBN 3-17-008658-8
- Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu ChristiISBN 3-17-004917-8
- Das Leben der heil. Jungfrau Maria (The Life of the Holy Virgin Mary) (1852, posthumous) ISBN 978-3-7171-0961-7
- Biographie der Anna Katharina Emmerick (Biography of Anna Katharina Emmerich) (unfinished, 1867–1870 in Schmoeger's edition; first authentic edition 1981)
- Tagebuchaufzeichnungen: Geheimnisse des Alten und des Neuen Bundes: Aus den Tagebüchern des Clemens Brentano (Notes from a Diary: Secrets of the Old and New Testaments from the Diaries of Clemens Brentano) ISBN 978-3-7171-0962-4
Fairy tales
References
- ^ John F. Fetzer, Clemens Brentano, Twayne Publishers, 1981, p. 11.
- ISBN 9781135455798
- ^ a b c "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Klemens Maria Brentano". newadvent.org.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- America. Archived from the originalon 2011-10-05.
- ^ Emmerich, Anne Catherine, and Clemens Brentano. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Anvil Publishers, Georgia, 2005 pages 49-56 (Note: the hard copy of this book has a wrong ISBN printed within its frontmatter, but the text (and the wrong ISBN) show up on Google books as published by Anvil Press)
- ^ Conzemius, Victor (November 27, 2008). "Linder, Emilie". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ Emmerich, Anna Katharina (1852). Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi.
- ^ Emmerich, Anna Katharina (1862). "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ". google.com.
Sources
- Phillips, H. A., "Brentano, Clemens Maria" Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brentano, Klemens". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 496. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). The American Cyclopædia. .
Further reading
- Blamires, David. "15. Clemens Brentano’s Fairytales". In: Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children’s Books 1780-1918. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2009. pp. 263–274. ISBN 9781906924119. Web généré le 23 septembre 2021: <http://books.openedition.org/obp/614>.
External links
- Works by Clemens Brentano at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Clemens Brentano at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Clemens Brentano at Internet Archive
- Works by Clemens Brentano at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Clemens Brentano at Open Library
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Geistliche Lieder. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Weltliche Gedichte. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Romanzen vom Rosenkranz. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Kleine Schriften. 1. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Kleine Schriften. 2. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1855). Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842. 1. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1855). Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842. 2. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Die Gründung Prags. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
- Brentano, Clemens (1852). Comödien. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.