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Otto Roquette (April 19, 1824 – March 18, 1896) was a German author.




Life and work


Roquette was born in Krotoschin, Prussian Province of Posen. The son of a district court councillor, he first went to Bromberg (modern Bydgoszcz) in 1834, and from 1846 to 1850 studied Philology and History in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Halle. After tours in Switzerland and Italy, he moved to in Berlin in 1852. He became a teacher in Dresden in 1853. He returned to Berlin in 1857 and in 1862 became a professor of literary history at the War Academy until he changed to the Gewerbeakademie (now Technische Universität Berlin) in 1867. In 1868 he joined the Vandalia-Teutonia Berlin. From 1869 he taught at the Polytechnic in Darmstadt (now Technische Universität Darmstadt). In 1893 he was named to the Geheimrat. Roquette befriended the German author Paul Heyse and, like Heyse, was a member of the literary group "Rütli".
Roquette's pseudo-romantic and epigonic lyric poetry and his fairy tale-laden epic verse is representative of Butzenscheibenlyric. From 1850 on, his works were extremely popular and especially beloved in conservative circles. His fashionable post-revolution poetry was a deliberate departure from the politically tinged verse of the pre-March era. His celebrated verse-epic on themes of love, wine, and youth, Waldmeisters Brautfahrt, first appeared in 1851 and enjoyed sensational success for a book at that time – appearing in more than 50 editions over thirty years.
Roquette's work was popular with some Lieder composers, such as Pauline Volkstein. His 1851 poem Noch ist die blühende, goldene Zeit was fit to a well-known folk tune in 1863 by the musician Wilhelm Baumgartner. Roquette was also a novelist, playwright, literary historian and autobiographer
Roquette died in Darmstadt. Later generations found Roquette's work to be predominantly shallow and of little artistic value, and it is virtually forgotten today.




Works


1850: Walpurgis
1851: Orion
1851: Waldmeisters Brautfahrt (Verse-Epic)
1852: Liederbuch (under the title "Poems" 1859)
1852: Der Tag von St. Jakob
1853: Das Reich der Träume
1854: Herr Heinrich
1855: Haus Haidekuckuck (Verse-Epic)
1855: Das Hünengrab
1858: Heinrich Falk (Novel)
1959: Erzählungen
1860: Leben und Dichten Johann Christian Günther's (Scholarly work, biography)
1862: Neue Erzählungen
1864: Susanne
1866: Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (Libretto to an Oratorio by Franz Liszt)
1867: Luginsland
1867: Pierrot
1867–76: Dramatische Dichtungen
1868: Krachmost
1869: Das Paradies
1870: Novellen
1871–75: Welt und Haus (Novella)
1873: Gevatter Tod
1873: Rhampsinit
1873: Die Schlangenkönigin
1877: Euphrosyne (Novel)
1878: Das Buchstabirbuch der Leidenschaft (Novel)
1878: Im Hause der Väter (Novel)
1879: Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung von den ältesten Denkmälern bis auf die Neuzeit (Scholarly work, literary History)
1879: Die Prophetenschule (Novel)
1883: Friedrich Preller
1884: Neues Novellenbuch
1884: Das Haus Eberhard
1884: Unterwegs
1884: Tage des Waldlebens
1884: Baum im Odenwald
1887: Große und kleine Leute in Alt-Weimar
1890: Frühlingsstimmen
1890: Des Lebens Mummenschanz
1892: Ul von Haslach
1894: Siebzig Jahre (Autobiography)
1895: Sonderlinge
1896: Krethi und Plethi
1896: Von Tag zu Tage (posthumous)




References



Ludwig Julius Fränkel: Roquette, Otto. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 469–478.
Ursula Perkow: Wie Otto Roquette zum Dichter wurde. Mit Waldmeister aus Handschuhsheim auf dem Weg zum Ruhm. In: Jahrbuch des Stadtteilvereins Handschuhsheim, Heidelberg 1997, pp. 88–95 (Internet-Ausgabe)




External links


Literature by and about Otto Roquette in the German National Library catalogue

"Works by Otto Roquette". Zeno.org (in German).
Works by Otto Roquette at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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