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Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of Germa…
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culture · German poet and philosopher (1770–1843) · poet · librarian · writer · translator · novelist · philosopher · librettist · hofmeister · also Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin, Frederich Holderlin, Hölderlin
Born 20 March 1770 · Died 7 June 1843 · Q75889
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2020· 8 entries
ZEIT: Friedrich Hölderlin: Mit ihm sind wir modern
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Friedrich Hölderlin heute - Auf den Saiten des Herzens
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Berliner Zeitung: Friedrich Hölderlin: Die Verzauberung der Welt
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ZEIT: Friedrich Hölderlin: Hölderlin nervt, oder?
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Movie Pilot: Friedrich Hölderlin: Dichter sein. Unbedingt!
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WDR: ZeitZeichen: 20.03.1770 - Geburtstag von Friedrich Hölderlin
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As part of the German celebration of Hölderlin's 250th birthday, Chris Jarrett composed his "Sechs Hölderlin Lieder" for baritone and piano
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For the 250th anniversary of Hölderlin's birth, the American composaer Chris Jarrett wrote "Sechs Hölderlin Lieder" for baritone and piano
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2019· 1 entry
derStandard: Friedrich Hölderlin: Der schwäbische Ersatzgrieche
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2018· 1 entry
WDR: ZeitZeichen: 07.06.1843 - Todestag des Dichters Friedrich Hölderlin
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2010· 2 entries
FOCUS: Höhle im Hirn des Dichters: Friedrich Hölderlin
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FOCUS: Hirnforscher untersuchen Schizophrenie: Friedrich Hölderlin
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2003· 1 entry
Graham Waterhouse composed a song cycle, Sechs späteste Lieder, for voice and cello based on six of Hölderlin's late poems
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1986· 1 entry
And 1988, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub shot two films, Der Tod des Empedokles and Schwarze Sünde, in Sicily, which were both based on the drama Empedokles (respectively for the two films they used the first and
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1975· 1 entry
Under the editorship of Dietrich Sattler
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1913· 1 entry
Did Norbert von Hellingrath, a member of the literary Circle led by the German Symbolist poet Stefan George, publish the first two volumes of what eventually became a six-volume edition of Hölderlin's poems, prose and le
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1912· 1 entry
Before the Berlin Edition began to appear, Rainer Maria Rilke composed his first two Duino Elegies whose form and spirit draw strongly on the hymns and elegies of Hölderlin
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1843· 3 entries
Died 1843-06-07.
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“Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen, ist alles. - Fragment von Hyperion, aus: Neue Thalia, Vierter Band, Hrsg. Friedrich Schiller, Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig 1793, S. 220”
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Nor did his childhood friends, Hegel (as he had died roughly a decade prior) and Schelling, who had long since ignored him; the Zimmer family were his only mourners
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1842· 1 entry
The year before Hölderlin's death
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1806· 1 entry
But deemed incurable and instead given lodging by a carpenter, Ernst Zimmer
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1805· 1 entry
Von Sinclair was denounced as a conspirator and tried for treason
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1804· 1 entry
His translations of the dramas of Sophocles were published but were generally met with derision over their apparent artificiality and difficulty, which according to his critics were caused by transposing Greek idioms int
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1770· 1 entry
Born 1770-03-20.
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