!!!Hebbel, Friedrich

b. Wesselburen (Germany), March 18, 1813, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 13, 1863, dramatist, poet, narrative author. Came from 
a poor family, after his success with "Judith" (1841) received a 
scholarship from the Danish King, which took him to Paris (where he 
met H. Heine), Rome and Naples. From 1845 in Vienna, in 1846 he 
married the Burgtheater actress Christine  Enghaus and became one of 
the most famous poets in Vienna. His realistic dramas stand somewhere 
between the classical and the modern psychological drama illustrating 
historical crises through individual tragedies. Even before H. Ibsen 
and A. Strindberg H. promoted women´s right to 
self-determination in his most famous dramas ("Maria Magdalena", 1844; 
"Agnes Bernauer", 1855).

!Further Works
dramas: Herodes und Mariamne, 1850; Ein Trauerspiel in 
Sizilien, 1851; Gyges und sein Ring, 1856; Die Nibelungen (trilogy), 
1862; Demetrius, 1864 (fragment). - Poetry: Gedichte, 1842; Neue 
Gedichte, 1848. - Prose: Mein Wort ueber das Drama, 1843 (essay); 
Schnock, 1850; narratives and novellas, 1855; Notenbuch meines 
Herzens, 2 vols., 1885/87 (diary). - Editions: Complete Works, ed. by 
E. Kuh, 12 vols., 1865-1867; Complete Works, ed. by R. M. Werner, 
24 vols., 1901-1907, %%sup 3/%1911-1913 (anniversary edition).

!Literature
A. Meetz. F. H., %%sup 3/%1973; F. H., ed. by H. 
Kreuzer, 1989; G. Haentzschel (ed.), Gefuehl und Reflexion. Studien zu 
F. H. Lyrik, 1998; C. Pilling, H. Dramen, 1998.



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