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Klingemann, Ernst August Friedrich (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 as a professor at the Collegium Carolinum). In 1800 he launched a periodical, Memnon, which in its first (and only) number contained a story (Die Rose) by Brentano. He was influenced by Tieck in his novel Romano (2 vols., 1800-1801), a Künstlerroman which was followed by Albano der Lautenspieler (2 vols., 1802). In 1804, the year in which he published the satirical comedy Freimüthigkeiten anonymously, appeared Nachtwachen. Von Bonaventura. The fact that its authorship can now safely be ascribed to him has led to a reassessment of his contribution to early Romanticism. In his own day best known as a man of the theatre, less through his own plays (Goethe produced Die Maske in 1797 and Columbus achieved success in 1808-9) than through his promotion of plays by Schiller and Kleist, he produced the first stage performance of Goethe's Faust I on 19 January 1829. His own Faust (1815) influenced Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust. Other plays include Martin Luther (1809) and the tragedy Ahasver (1827). Collections appeared as Theater (3 vols., 1808-20) and Dramatische Werke (2 vols., 1817).

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Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (31 August 1777 in Braunschweig – 25 January 1831 in Braunschweig) was a German writer. He is generally agreed to be the author of the 1804 novel Nachtwachen (Nightwatches) under the pseudonym Bonaventura.

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Life

As a young boy, Klingemann developed an interest in the theatre which would last his whole life. After he completed his education at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he went to Jena in 1798 to study law and philosophy . There he heard lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and August Wilhelm Schlegel and became friends with Clemens Brentano. However, in 1801 he left Jena and returned to Braunschweig, where he became editor of Zeitung für die elegante Welt (Newspaper for the Elegant World).

In 1810 Klingemann married Elise Anschuetz, an actress. In 1818 he became the director of the Braunschweiger Theatre. Under Klingemann the Braunschweiger theatre soon acquired a good reputation. It was here that the first staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (Part 1) was staged on 19 January 1829. In the same year Klingemann accepts a professorship at his old school, the Collegium Carolinum but only one year later he was once again the director at the theatre.

In 1831 Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann died. He is buried in the Magni cemetery in Braunschweig.

Controversy of Nachtwachen Authorship

The authorship of Nachtwachen was (and is) disputed. It has been attributed to, among others, Clemens Brentano, Friedrich Schlegel, Karoline Schelling and Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel. Jean Paul, was of the opinion that Friedrich Schelling was the author, having noticed some similarities with his Gianozzo. Scholars today however are in general agreement that Bonaventura was Klingemann.

Works

Klingemann wrote many novels and dramas, which are written in the spirit of the romance and enjoyed large popularity at that time.

Novels

  • Wildgraf Eckard von der Wölpe (1795)
  • Die Ruinen im Schwarzwalde (The Ruins in the Black Forest) (1797-1799)
  • Romano (1800-1801)
  • Albano, der Lautenspieler (1803)
  • Die Lazzaroni (1803)
  • Nachtwachen. Von Bonaventura (1804)

Plays

  • Die Asseburg. Historisch-romantisches Gemählde (1796/1797)
  • Die Maske (The Mask) (1797)
  • Selbstgefühl (1800)
  • Freimüthigkeiten (1804)
  • Der Schweizerbund (The Swiss Federation) (1804-1805)
  • Der Lazzaroni oder Der Bettler von Neapel (The Beggar of Nepal) (1806)
  • Heinrich von Wolfenschießen (1806)
  • Columbus (1808)
  • Heinrich der Löwe (Heinrich the Lion) (1808)
  • Schill oder Das Deklamatorium zu Krähwinkel (1812)
  • Moses. A dramatic Poem. (1812)
  • Faust (1815)
  • Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Dramatic Play with Singing. (1815)
  • Deutsche Treue (German Loyalty) (1816)
  • Die Grube zur Dorothea (1817)
  • Das Kreuz im Norden (The Cross in the North) (1818)
  • Ahasver (1827)
  • Melpomene (2 Dramas: The Bride of Kynast; Bianca di Sepolcro) (1830)

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