KARL EDUARD VON See also:

• KARL EDUARD VON HOLTEI (1798-188o)

HOLTEI (1798-188o)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet and actor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau on the 24th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1798, the son of an officer of Hussars . Having served in the Prussian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army as a volunteer in 1815, he shortly afterwards entered the university of Breslau as a student of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law; but, attracted by the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, he soon forsook See also:

• ACADEMIC

academic See also:

• LIFE

life and made his debut in the Breslau See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre as See also:

• MORTIMER (Family)

Mortimer in See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller's Maria See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart . He led a wandering life for the next two years, appearing less on the stage as an actor than as a reciter of his own poems . In 1821 he married the actress Luise Rogee (1800-1825), and was appointed theatre-poet to the Breslau stage . He next removed to See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where his wife fulfilled an engagement at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court theatre . During his sojourn here he produced the vaudevilles See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Wiener in Berlin (1824), and Die Berliner in Wien (1825), pieces which enjoyed at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time See also:

• GREAT

great popular favour . In 1825 his wife died; but soon after her See also:

• DEATH

death he accepted an engagement at the Konigsstadter theatre in Berlin, when he wrote a number of plays, notably Lenore (2829) and Der alte Feldherr (1829) . In 1830 he married Julie Holzbecher (1809–1839), an actress engaged at the same theatre, and with her played in See also:

• DARMSTADT

Darmstadt . Returning to Berlin in 1831 he wrote for the composer See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz See also:

• GLASER, CHRISTOPHER

Glaser (1798–1861) the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of the See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera See also:

• DES

Des Adlers See also:

• HORST

Horst (1838), and for See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

Ludwig See also:

• DEVRIENT

Devrient the See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama, Der dumme See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter (1837) . In 1833 See also:

• HOLTEI, KARL EDUARD VON (1798-188o)

Holtei again went on the stage and toured with his wife to various important cities, See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden, See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna . In the last his declamatory See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as a reciter, particularly of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare's plays, made a furore, and the poet-actor was given the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of manager of the Josefstadter theatre in the last-named See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . Though proud of his successes both as actor and reciter, Holtei See also:

• LEFT

left Vienna in 1836, and from 1837 to 1839 conducted the theatre in See also:

• RIGA (Esth. Ria-Lin)

Riga .

Here his second wife died, and after wandering through See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany reciting and accepting a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short engagement at Breslau, he settled in 1847 at See also:

• GRAZ [GRATZ]

Graz, where he devoted himself to a See also:

• LITERARY

literary life and produced the novels Die Vagabunden (1851), See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Lammfell (1853) and Der letzte Komodiant (1863) . The last years of his life were spent at Breslau, where being in poor circumstances he found a See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home in the Kloster der barmherzigen Briider, and here he died on the 12th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1880 . As a dramatist Holtei may be said to have introduced the " See also:

• VAUDEVILLE

vaudeville " into Germany; as an actor, although remaining behind the greater artists of his time, he contrived to fascinate his See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience by the dramatic force of his exposition of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character; as a reciter, especially of Shakespeare, he knew no See also:

• RIVAL

rival . See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August See also:

• LEWALD, FANNY (1811–1889)

Lewald said of Holtei that by the See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy of his poetic conception and plastic force he brought his audience See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round to his own ideas; and he added, " an eloquence such as his I have never met with in any other German." Holtei was not only a stage-poet but. a lyric-writer of great See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm . Notable among such productions are Schlesische Gedichte (183o; loth ed., 1893), Gedichte (5th ed., 1861), Slimmen des Waldes (2nd ed., 1854) . Mention ought also to be made of Holtei's interesting autobiography, Vierzig Jahre (8 vols., 1843—1850; 3rd ed., 1862) with the supplementary See also:

• VOLUME

volume Noch ein Jahr in Schlesien (1864) . Holtei's Theater appeared in 6 vols . (1867); his Erzdhlende Schriften, 39 vols . (1861-1866) . See M . Kurnick, Karl von Holtei, can Lebensbild (188o) ; F . Wehl, Zeit and Menschen (1889) ; O .

Storch, K. von Holtei (1898) .