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LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

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LUDWIG, See also:OTTO (1813-1865) , See also:German dramatist, novelist and critic, was See also:born at Eisfeld in Thuringia, on the 11th of See also:February 1813. His See also:father, who was See also:syndic of Eisfeld, died when the boy was twelve years old, and he was brought up amidst uncongenial conditions. He had devoted his leisure to See also:poetry and See also:music, which unfitted him for the See also:mercantile career planned for him. The See also:attention of the See also:duke of See also:Meiningen was directed to one of his musical compositions, an See also:opera, See also:Die Kohlerin, and Ludwig was enabled in 1839 to continue his musical studies under Mendelssohn in See also:Leipzig. But See also:ill-See also:health and constitutional shyness caused him to give up a musical career, and he turned exclusively to See also:literary studies, and wrote several stories and dramas. Of the latter, Der Erbforster (185o) attracted immediate attention as a masterly psychological study. It was followed by Die Makkabaer (1852), in which the realistic method of Der Erbforster was transferred to an See also:historical milieu, which allowed more brilliant colouring and a freer See also:play of the See also:imagination. With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte See also:des Herzens and DasFraulein von Scuderi, the See also:comedy Hans See also:Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of See also:Agnes See also:Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after See also:Hebbel as See also:Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century. Meanwhile he had married and settled permanently in See also:Dresden, where he turned his attention to fiction. He published a See also:series of admirable stories of Thuringian See also:life, characterized by the same attention to See also:minute detail and careful psychological See also:analysis as his dramas. The best of these are Die Heiteretei and ihr Widerspiel (1851), and Ludwig's masterpiece, the powerful novel, Zwischen See also:Himmel and Erde (1855). In his See also:Shakespeare-Studien (not published until 1891) Ludwig showed himself a discriminating critic, with a See also:fine insight into the hidden springs of the creative imagination.

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great, however, was his See also:enthusiasm for Shakespeare, that he was led to depreciate See also:Schiller in a way which found little favour among his countrymen. He died at Dresden on the 25th of February 1865. Ludwig's Gesammelte Schriften were published by A. Stern and E. See also:Schmidt in 6 vols. (1891–1892) ; also by A. See also:Bartels (6 vols., 1900). See A. Stern, Otto Ludwig, ern Dicttterleben (1891; and ed., 1906), and A. Sauer, Otto Ludwig (1893).

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