biography
| name: |
Gutzkow, Karl Ferdinand
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pronunciation:
[gutskoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1811–78)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied theology and philosophy, then turned to politics under the influence of the July 1830 revolution. A leading figure in the politically radical literary movement, Junges Deutschland, he fled abroad for several years, continuing to advocate freedom of expression and democracy. He spent a month in jail on account of his novel Wally, die Zweiflerin (1835), for which he was accused of blasphemy and obscenity. His historical plays include Nero (1835), König Saul (1839), Richard Savage (1839), and Die Schule der Reichen (1841). In 1844 he published the satirical dramas Zopf und Schwert and Das Urbild des Tartüffe. Notable among his voluminous novels are Blasedow und seine Söhne (1828), Die Ritter vom Geiste (1850), Der Zauberer von Rom (1959–61), Die Söhne Pestalozzis (1870), and Die neuen Serapionsbrüder (1877), works that exemplify the political literature of the age. He is remembered today above all as a champion of literary freedom. |
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