The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX

The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig

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Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
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VOLUME IX

FRIEDRICH HEBBEL
OTTO LUDWIG

THE GERMAN CLASSICS
Masterpieces of German Literature

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Patrons' Edition IN TWENTY VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED
1914

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX
Friedrich Hebbel
The Life of Friedrich Hebbel. By William Guild Howard
Maria Magdalena. Translated by Paul Bernard Thomas
Siegfried's Death. Translated by Katherine Royce
Anna. Translated by Frances H. King
On Theodor K?rner and Heinrich von Kleist. Translated by Frances H. King
Ludolf Wienbarg's The Dramatists of the Present Day. Translated by Frances H. King
Review of Heinrich von Kleist's Play, _The Prince of Homburg, or The Battle of Fehrbellin_. Translated by Frances H. King
Recollections of My Childhood. Translated by Frances H. King Extracts from the Journal of Friedrich Hebbel
Otto Ludwig
The Life of Otto Ludwig. By Alexander R. Hohlfeld
The Hereditary Forester. Translated by Alfred Remy
Between Heaven and Earth. Translated by Muriel Almon

ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME IX
Summer Day. By Arnold Bucklin Frontispiece
Friedrich Hebbel 2
Death as Cup-Bearer. By Alfred Rethel 30
Death Playing the Finale at the Masquerade. By Alfred Rethel 60
Death as Friend. By Alfred Rethel 78
Title Page of the Nibelungenlied. By Peter Cornelius 82
Siegfried's Return from the Saxon War. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 100
The Quarrel of the Queens. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 122
Kriemhild finds the Slain Siegfried. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 150
Kriemhild accuses Hagen of the Murder of Siegfried. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 170
The Battle between the Huns and the Nibelungs. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 190
Gunther and Hagen brought Captive before Kriemhild. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 222
The Death of Kriemhild. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 246
Otto Ludwig 268
The Finding of Moses. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 300
Moses on Mt. Sinai. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 330
Jacob and Rachel at the Well. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 360
Jacob's Journey. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 390
David being Stoned by Sinei. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 420
The Death of Eli. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 450
Josiah hears the Law. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 480
The Prophet Jeremiah. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 510

EDITOR'S NOTE
The painters represented here alongside with the two writers to whom this volume is devoted, are Cornelius, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Rethel, and Kaulbach. These men were not only contemporary with Hebbel and Ludwig, but may indeed be called their artistic counterparts. Though widely differentiated by individual temper and talent, these painters and poets belong to the same phase of mid-century German literature and art: the striving of Romanticism beyond itself, the struggle for a new style uniting depth of feeling and terseness of delineation, the longing for a new view of life harmonizing the worship of the past with the demands of modern society and the problems of the day. Hence the heroic note in the work of these painters and poets, hence their predilection for great historical or mythological or religious subjects, hence their leaning toward tragic conflicts in every day situations, hence their all too conscious striving for pointed effects; hence, also, the inspiring influence emanating from their best productions.
KUNO FRANCKE.

THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH HEBBEL

By WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M.,
Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University
The greatest German dramatists of the middle of the nineteenth century were Franz Grillparzer, Friedrich Hebbel, and Otto Ludwig. In a caustic epigram written in 1855, Grillparzer set forth that Dame Poetry, for some years a widow and now ailing, needed a husband, but could find none; and we remember that the heroine of Libussa rejects the wise Lapak, the strong Biwoy, and the rich Domaslaw because she desires in one man, united, the qualities which separately dominate the three. With more charity, Grillparzer might have more fully recognized the poet in Hebbel or Ludwig; but we may be permitted to think of these three dramatists as not unlike the three suitors for the hand of Libussa: Grillparzer was rich, Ludwig was wise, and Hebbel was strong. Each of them was somewhat deficient in the qualities of the other two; each, however, was a personality, and Hebbel one of the most powerful that ever lived.
Hebbel's career is a long battle against all but insuperable obstacles. Born at Wesselburen in the present province of Schleswig-Holstein on March 18, 1813, he was the son of a poor stone mason--so poor that, as Hebbel said, poverty had taken the place of his soul. Though Klaus Hebbel was a well-meaning man,