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GRABBE, CHRISTIAN DIETRICH (1801-1836)

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GRABBE, See also:CHRISTIAN See also:DIETRICH (1801-1836) , See also:German dramatist, was See also:born at Detmold on the llth of See also:December 18or. Entering the university of See also:Leipzig in 1819 as a student of See also:law, he continued the reckless habits which he had begun at Detmold, and neglected his studies. Being introduced into See also:literary circles, he conceived the See also:idea of becoming an actor and wrote the See also:drama See also:Herzog Theodor von Gothland (1822). This, though showing considerable literary See also:talent, lacks See also:artistic See also:form, and is morally repulsive. See also:Ludwig See also:Tieck, while encouraging the See also:young author, pointed out its faults, and tried to reform Grabbe himself. In 1822 Grabbe removed to See also:Berlin University, and in 1824 passed his See also:advocate's examination. He now settled in his native See also:town as a lawyer and in 1827 was appointed a Militarauditeur. In 1833 he married, but in consequence of his drunken habits was dismissed from his See also:office, and, separating from his wife, visited See also:Dusseldorf, where he was kindly received by Karl See also:Immermann. After a serious See also:quarrel with the latter, he returned to Detmold, where, as a result of his excesses, he died on the 12th of See also:September 1836. Grabbe had real poetical gifts, and many of his dramas contain See also:fine passages and a See also:wealth of See also:original ideas. They largely reflect his own See also:life and See also:character, and are characterized by cynicism and indelicacy. Their construction also is defective and little suited to the requirements of the See also:stage.

The boldly conceived See also:

Don Juan and See also:Faust (1829) and the See also:historical dramas See also:Friedrich See also:Barbarossa (x829), Heinrich VI. (183o), and See also:Napoleon See also:Oder See also:die Hundert Tage (1831), the last of which places the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo upon the stage, are his best See also:works. Among others are the unfinished tragedies See also:Marius and See also:Sulla (continued by Erich Korn, Berlin, 1890); and See also:Hannibal (1835, supplemented and edited by C. Spielmann, See also:Halle, 1901); and the patriotic Hermannsschlacht or the battle between See also:Arminius and Varus (posthumously published with a See also:biographical See also:notice, by E. Duller, 1838). Grabbe's works have been edited by O. See also:Blumenthal (4 vols., 1875), and E. Grisebach (4 vols., 1902). For further notices of his life, see K. Ziegler, Grabbes Leben and Charakter (1855); O. Blumenthal, Beitrage zur Kenntnis Grabbes (1875) ; C. A.

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Piper, Grabbe (1898), and A. Ploch, Grabbes Stellung in der deutschen Literatur (1905).

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