Clemens BRENTANO

Poet, * Ehrenbreitstein 8.9.1778, † Aschaffenburg 28.7.1842.

Son of Maximiliane Brentano by the young Goethe admired of the Maximiliane of La Roche, the daughter of George Michael de la Roche and the authoress Sophie de la Roche. Clemens Brentano completed buyer teachings together with a short study of the mountain subject. 

■ 1798 it studied medicine in Jena, there joined it the circle of the early romantics.  

■ 1800-02 developed under the alias Maria the novel “Goldwi” a representation between overflowing fantasy and reflection, between terrestrial and heavenly love of varying poet. The novel was dedicated to Sophie Mereau. 

■ 1804 Brentano moved with Armin to Heidelberg, she lived and wrote together “The boy Wonderwork. 

■ 1801 he studied in Göttingen philosophy, here developed a lifelong friendship with the later brother-in-law Achim of Arnim.  

■ 1803 he married Sophie Mereau. 

■ 1804 Brentano moved with Armin to Heidelberg, she lived and wrote together.  

■ 1806-08 together with the brother-in-law Amim “The boy Wonderwork” and carried to its “Newspaper for hermit” (as book; „Trösteinsamkeit“, 1808). 1809 it renewed J. WICKRAMS novel of „The gold thread“. She wrote the romantic comedy “Ponce de Leon” as well as the melancholic Singspiel „The merry musician“ 

■ 1807 after death Sophies were received Brentano a new, unfortunate marriage with the 16jährigen Frankfurterin Auguste Busmann, of which it became divorced  

■ 1809 he went to Berlin, became with Armin, Fouque and Kleist member of the “Christlich-Teutschen Tischgesellschaft”  

■ 1811 he wrote its satire „Der Philister“. 

■ 1812 about and in the following years he formed „Die Gründung Prags“ on a family property in Böhmen the Libussa motive to the mystics allegoristic picture sequence (1815). 

■ 1815 during the wars of liberation (1813-1815) it created native country in Vienna from that. High tendency the festivals „Viktoria” and their brothers and sisters and „ Am Rhein, am Rhein “.  

■ 1817 he returned to Berlin, he wrote narrations to, under it the „History nevertheless told in the people clay/tone artful and from the good Kasper! and the beautiful Annerl“ and „The several Wehmüller“. Still into the poetical beginnings going back, the gradual-promoted cycle of the „Romance of the rosary “ remained finally fragment. Those here already announcing reversal to the catholic devoutness carried out itself Brentano under the influence that in vain wooed Luise Hensel, poet (1798/1876), which among escort-person in Münster and Düsseldorf was, as well as nurse in Koblenz and educator in Boppard and Aachen.  

In the following years stayed Brentano in Dülmen (Westphalia) at the patient bed of the running sores nun Anna Katharina Emmedrick, whose history he noted after its death (1824) in poetic free processing (1833).  

■ 1833 from this time he continued its unsteady moving life and lived the most time after 1833 predominantly in Munich. 

■ 1838 he published the fairy tale „Gockel, Hinkel and Gackeleia“; its collected fairy tale (Rhine fairy tale, Italian fairy tale among other things) published only after his death. As poet was for Brentano his usually very musical verses equally beside Mörike and Eichendorff. Brentano was the strongest and most versatile poet gift of the romance, but remained nearly all its larger plans fragment. Beside his seals its numerous letter of the charm and the wealth of its fantasy witnesses. 

At which time the ballad “faithful dear, faithful dear is lost (“Ballade “Treulieb, Treulieb ist verloren“) from Clemens Brentano developed is not well known. Otto Bachmann (*1915 Luzern/Switzerland † 1996 Losone/Ascona/Schweiz) understood you it, with his work to dedicate original lithographs and designs to this topic in brilliant form. It proved its graphic abilities not only in this Ballade, and then it has with the lithographs to “Goethe's Faust”, which it brought from 1941 to 1942 on the stone its international break-through obtained.  From the 7 original lithographs, which he manufactured to the work of Goethe’s Faust I, there are 3 lithographs is to be seen, the Walpurgisnacht of 1941, night open field of 1942 and Gretchen into the dungeon of 1941 in this Internet exhibition.

Publications:

■ Joseph Adam: Clemens Brentanos Emmerick experience. Connection and adventure. Freiburg im Breisgau 1956. (that is the most important contribution of the Brentano-research before the writer of “Frühwald”. The book is worth reading.

■ Gabriele Brandstetter: Eroticism and religiousness, to the lyric poetry Clemens Brentanos. Munich: Fink. 1986.

■ Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Brentanos Poetik. Munich: Hanser. 1961 (the thesis of the well-known writer; disputed study to Brentanos lyric poetry)

■ Konrad Feilchenfeldt (publisher): Brentano chronic. Data to lives and work. Munich and others: Hanser. 1978. (= row Hanser; 259; Chronicles) ISBN 3-446-12637-6 (standard work)

■ Wolfgang early forest: The late work Clemens Brentanos (1815-1842). Romance in the age the Metternich's restoration. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 1977. (= Hermaea; N.F. 37) (Main work of the newer Brentano research)

■ Bernhard Gajek: Homo poeta to the continuity of the problem with Clemens Brentano. Frankfurt/Main. 1971 (= Goethe time; 3) (fastidious standard work to Brentanos lyric poetry)

■ Sabine Claudia Gruber: Clemens Brentano and religious the song. Tübingen and others: Francke. 2002. (= Mainzer hymnologische studies; 4) ISBN 3-7720-2914-0

■ Kristina Hasenpflug: Clemens Brentanos lyric poetry at Luise Hensel with the historical-critical edition of some poems and explanations. Frankfurt/Main and others: Long. 1999. (= European university writings; Row 1; German language and literature; 1707) ISBN 3-631-33951-8

■ Silke Horstkotte: Androgyne author shank. Poetry and sex in the prose work Clemens Brentanos. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 2004. (= Hermaea; N.F., 104) ISBN 3-484-15104-8

■ Helene M. Kastinger Riley: Clemens Brentano. Stuttgart: Metzler. 1985. (= Collection Metzler; M 213; section D, literary history) ISBN 3-476-10213-0 (superficially compilation)

■ Bettina Knauer: Allegorische Texturen. Studien zum Prosawerk Clemens Brentanos. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 1995. (= Hermaea; N.F. 77) ISBN 3-484-15077-7 (Productive interpretation of Brentanos work)

■ Andreas Lorenczuk: The pictures of the truth and the truth of the pictures. To the “large cock-fairytale” (1838) and the Emmerick writings of Clemens Brentano. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke. 1994. (= Aurora book series; 8) ISBN 3-7995-1808-8

■ Detlev Lüders (Publisher): Clemens Brentano. Contributions at the free German colloquium “Hochstift 1978”. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 1980. (= number of the writings; Free German Hochstift; 24) ISBN 3-484-10369-8

■ Sabine Oehring: Investigations to the Brentano research of the two Jesuiten Johann Baptist Diel and William Kreiten. Frankfurt/Main and others: Lang. 1992. (= European university writings; Row 1; German language and literature; 1299) ISBN 3-631-44039-1

■ Dietmar Pravida: “The invention of the rosary’s”. Investigations to Clemens Brentanos verse pos. Frankfurt/Main and others: Long. 2005. (= research to the Junghegelianismus; 13) (to the romances of the rosary)

■ Bernd Reifenberg: The “beautiful order” in Clemens Brentanos “Godwi” and “Ponce de Leon”. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. 1990. (= Palaestra; 291) ISBN 3-525-20564-3

■ Brigitte Schad (Publisher): The Aschaffenburger Brentanos " “of contributions for the history of the family from unknown deduction material” Aschaffenburg 1984: (=history and art association Aschaffenburg;) ISBN 3-87965-003-9, ISSN 0433-843-X

■ Susanne Scharnowski: A wild formless song. Clemens Brentanos “Godwi or the stony picture of the nut/mother”. ". Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. 1996. (= Epistemata; Literature science lines; 184) ISBN 3-8260-1185-6 (best newer work to Brentanos novel)

■ Hans-Walter Schmidt: Release of the writing to the motive for book at the work Clemens Brentanos. Vienna: Passages, 1991

■ Hartwig Schultz: Clemens Brentano. Stuttgart: Reclam. 1999. (= universal library; 17614; Literature study) ISBN 3-15-017614-X (introduction; not error free)

■ Hartwig Schultz (Publisher): Clemens Brentano. 1778-1842. To 150.The day of death is1992. Berne and others: Long. 1993. ISBN 3-906750-94-9 (with bibliography)

■ Hartwig Schultz: Black butterfly, twenty chapters from the life of the romantic poet Clemens Brentano. Berlin: Berliner paperback-publisher 2002. (= number; 76083) ISBN 3-442-76083-6 (first reliable biography; very conventionally)

■ Hartwig Schultz (Publisher): On thorns or roses sunk? Eros and poetry with Clemens Brentano. (= introduction to the exhibition… 6. July to 14. September 2003 in free German pin, Frankfurt Goethe museum) ISBN 3-930293-70-6 (to Brentanos love lyric)

■ Hartwig Schultz: “Our dear however is to be chosen”, the history of brothers and sisters Clemens and Bettine. Frankfurt/Main and others: Insel-Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-458-17229-7