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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI |
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KLINGER, FRIEDRICH MAXIMILIAN VON (17521831) , German dramatist and novelist, was born of humble parentage at Frankfort-on-Main, on the 17th of February 1752. His father died when he was a child, and his early years were a hard struggle. He was enabled, however, in 1774 to enter the university of Giessen, where he studied law; and Goethe, with whom he had been acquainted since childhood, helped him in many ways. In 1775 Klinger gained with his tragedy Die Zwillinge a prize offered by the Hamburg theatre, under the auspices of the actress Sophie Charlotte Ackermann (17141792) and her son the famous actor and playwright, Friedrich
Schroder (17441816). In 1776 Klinger was appointed Theaterdichter to the " Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft " and held this post for two years. In 1778 he entered the Austrian military service and took part in the Bavarian war of succession. In 178o he went to St Petersburg
Academy
Klinger was a man of vigorous moral character and full of fine feeling, though the bitter experiences and deprivations of his youth are largely reflected in his dramas. It was one of his earliest works, Sturm and Drang (1776), which gave its name to this literary epoch. In addition to this tragedy and Die Zwillinge (1776), the chief
storm
a later period belongs the fine double
Medea
Medea
series was closed in 18o3 with Betrachtungen and Gedanken fiber verschiedene Gegenslande der Well and der Literatur. In these works Klinger gives calm and dignified expression to the leading ideas which the period of Sturm and Drang had bequeathed to German classical literature.Klinger's works were published in twelve volumes (1809-1815), also 18321833 and 1842. The most recent
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