biography
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Immermann, Karl Leberecht
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pronunciation:
[imerman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1796–1840)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Magdeburg, EC Germany. He studied law, then took part in the 1813–15 Befreiungskriege (Wars of Liberation), going on to become a Prussian civil servant. In Düsseldorf, where he had been appointed to the judicial post of Landgerichtsrat, he founded in 1832 a theatrical association and became manager of the municipal Stadttheater (1834–7). He is remembered today chiefly for his satirical novel Münchhausen (1836–9), and the society novel Die Epigonen (1836) which incorporates the village idyll Der Oberhof and has lent its name to an entire epoch. Other works, containing both classical and Romantic elements, include the plays Cardenio und Celinde (1826), Das Trauerspiel in Tirol (1828), and Merlin (1832), the collected Gedichte (1822), the epic Tulifäntchen (1830), the satire Der im Irrgarten der Metrik umhertaumelnde Kavalier (1829), and Memorabilien (1840–3). |
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