Karl Gutzkow

Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow ((1811-03-17)17 March 1811 in Berlin – (1878-12-16)16 December 1878 in Sachsenhausen) was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.

Life

Gutzkow was born of an extremely poor family, not proletarian, but of the lowest and most menial branch of state employees.

Schleiermacher.^[3]

While still a student, he began his literary career by the publication in 1831 of a periodical entitled Forum der Journalliteratur. This brought him to the notice of

Frankfurt, where he founded the Deutsche Revue.^[2] While Gutzkow started out as a collaborator of Wolfgang Menzel, he ended up his adversary.^{[citation needed}

]

Also in 1835, his novel Wally die Zweiflerin appeared. News of the 1830

Henri de Saint-Simon, particularly the latter's theory of the emancipation of the flesh.^[1]

Immediately after its publication, the writings of Gutzkow, together with those of

German confederation.^[2]

During his term of imprisonment at

Roman Catholic life in southern Germany.^[2]

After the success of Die Ritter vom Geiste, Gutzkow founded a journal on the model of Dickens' Household Words, entitled Unterhaltungen am häuslichen Herd, which first appeared in 1852 and continued until 1862. In 1864 he had an epileptic seizure, and his theatrical powers began to diminish. To this period belong the historical novels Hohenschwangau (1868) and Fritz Ellrodt (1872), Lebensbilder (1870–1872), consisting of autobiographic sketches, and Die Söhne Pestalozzis (1870), with a plot founded on the story of Kaspar Hauser. After another epileptic episode Gutzkow journeyed to Italy in 1873, taking up residence in the country near Heidelberg on his return before moving again to Frankfurt, where he died on 16 December 1878.^[2]

With his play

Yiddish theater. Gutzkow was never a revolutionary, and he became more conservative with age. He was one of the first Germans who tried to make a living by writing.^[3] His strong controversial purpose obscured his artistic genius, but his work profoundly influenced the popular thought of c. 1910 Germany, and gives one of the best pictures we have of the intellectual life and the social struggle of his generation and nation.^[4]

Adaptations

His comedy in 5 acts Zopf und Schwert (1844) received two adaptations; in 1926 Aafa-Film made the movie Sword and Shield, and Edmund Nick used it for his operetta Über alles siegt die Liebe (Love Conquers Everything, 1940), libretto by Bruno Hardt-Warden [de].

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Gutzkow, Karl" . Encyclopedia Americana.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gutzkow, Karl Ferdinand" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

^ ^a ^b Sagarra, Eda (2000). "Karl Gutzkow, 1811-1878." Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 391-392.

^
New International Encyclopedia
(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

"Works by Karl Gutzkow". Zeno.org (in German).
Works by Karl Gutzkow at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Karl Gutzkow at Internet Archive
Works by Karl Gutzkow at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

[americana-1] Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Gutzkow, Karl" . Encyclopedia Americana.

[eb-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gutzkow, Karl Ferdinand" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[Sagarra-3] Sagarra, Eda (2000). "Karl Gutzkow, 1811-1878." Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 391-392.

[3]

[2]

[1]

[4]

Authority control databases
International	FAST ISNI VIAF
National	France BnF data Germany Israel Belgium United States Sweden Czech Republic Greece Netherlands Poland Vatican
Artists	KulturNav
People	Deutsche Biographie Trove
Other	RISM SNAC IdRef