biography
pronunciation:
[lowbuh]
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| lived:
| (1806–84)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Sprottau, Silesia. A leading figure in the radical literary movement ‘Junges Deutschland7rsquo;, his socio-critical articles as editor (1832) of the Leipzig Zeitung für die elegante Welt earned him sanctions in the 1830s, ranging from detention of two and a half years to a ban on his writings. Officially recognized once again, the 1840s saw him as a theatre critic in Leipzig and a member of the Frankfurt parliament. He became theatre-manager first of Vienna's Burgtheater (1849–67), where he championed the works of Hebbel, then of the municipal Stadttheater in Leipzig (1869) and in Vienna (1871–4), this theatre having been founded by him. His most popular works include Die Karlsschüler (1846) dealing with Schiller's ‘Sturm und Drang’ years, and Struensee (1847), concerned with political events of the time. |
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