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IMMERMANN, KARL LEBERECHT (1796-1840) , German dramatist and novelist, was born on the 24th of April 1796 at Magdeburg, the son of a government official. In 1813 he went to study law at Halle
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rector per petuus of Halle university. In 1834 Immermann under-took the management of the Dusseldorf theatre, and, although his resources were small, succeeded for two years in raising it to a high level of excellence. The theatre, however, was insufficiently endowed to allow of him carrying on the work, andin 1836 he returned to his official duties and literary pursuits. He died at Dusseldorf on the 25th of August 184o. Immermann had considerable aptitude for the drama, but it was long before he found a congenial field for his talents. His early plays are imitations, partly of Kotzebue's, partly of the Romantic dramas of Tieck and Milliner, and are now forgotten. In 1826, however, appeared Cardenio and Celinde, a love tragedy of more promise; this, as well as the earlier productions, awakened the ill-will of Platen, who made Immermann the subject of his wittiest satire, Der romanlische Oedipus . Between 1827 and 1832 Immermann redeemed his good name by a series of historical tragedies, Das Trauerspiel in Tirol (1827), Kaiser Friedrich II. (1828) and a trilogy from Russian history, Alexis (1832). His masterpiece is the poetic mystery, Merlin (1831), a noble poem, which, like its model, Faust, deals with the deeper problems of modern spiritual life. Immermann's important. dramaturgic experiments in Dusseldorf are described in detail in Diisseldorfer Anfange (184o). More significant is his position as a novelist. Here he clearly stands on the boundary line between Romanticism and modern literature; his Epigonen (1836) might be described as one of the last Romantic imitations of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, while the satire and realism of his second novel, Miinchhausen (1838), form a complete break with the older literature. As a prose
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Immermann's Gesammelte Schriften were published in 14 vols. in 18351843; a new edition, with biography and introduction by R. Boxberger, in 20 vols. (Berlin, 1883) ; selected works, edited by M. Koch
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