Hauff's Werke. 2 Volumes (1-3 & 4-6).

By Wilhelm Hauffe

Printed: Circa 1890

Publisher: Verlag von Th. Knaur. Berlin

Dimensions 13 × 19 × 4 cm
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Language: German

Size (cminches): 13 x 19 x 4

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Brown morocco spine and corners, brown and orange marbled boards. Red and green title plates with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.

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 A collection of Wilhelm Hauff’s work. To some a controversial figure with his anti-Semitic writings favoured by the Nazi’s

 Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a Württembergian poet and novelist. On leaving university, Hauff became tutor to the children of the Württemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel (1774–1849), and for them wrote his Märchen (fairy tales), which he published in his Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826 (Fairytale Almanac of 1826). Some of these stories are very popular in German-speaking countries to this day, such as Der kleine Muck (The Story of Little Muck), Kalif Storch (Caliph Stork) and Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff (The Tale of the Ghost Ship)—all set in the Orient—as well as Der Zwerg Nase (Little Longnose), Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart or The Marble Heart) and Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (The Spessart Inn), set in Germany. While there, he also wrote the first part of the Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan (1826; Memoirs of Beelzebub) and Der Mann im Mond (1825; The Man in the Moon). The latter, a parody of the sentimental and sensual novels of Heinrich Clauren (the pseudonym of Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, 1771–1854), became in the course of composition a close imitation of that author’s style and was actually published under his name. As a result, Clauren brought and won an action for damages against Hauff, whereupon Hauff followed up the attack in his witty and sarcastic Kontroverspredigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond (1826) and attained his original object: the moral annihilation of the mawkish and unhealthy literature with which Clauren was flooding the country.

Meanwhile, inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s novels, Hauff wrote the historical romance Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der wuerttembergischen Geschichte (1826; Lichtenstein: Romantic Saga from the History of Württemberg), which became hugely popular in Germany and especially in Swabia, treating as it did the most interesting period in the history of that country, the reign of Duke Ulrich (1487–1550). This novel was the inspiration for Duke Ulrich’s heir, Duke Wilhelm of Urach, to rebuild the castle, which had fallen into disrepair, in accordance with Hauff’s description.

While on a journey to France, the Netherlands, and northern Germany he wrote the second part of the Memoiren des Satan and some short novels, among them the charming Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts (1826; The True Lover’s Fortune; or, the Beggar of the Pont des Arts) and his masterpiece, the novella Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller (1827; The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen). He also published some short poems, which have passed into Volkslieder, among them “Morgenrot, Morgenrot, leuchtest mir zum frühen Tod?” (“Dawn’s light, you are lighting my way to early death”) and “Steh ich in finstrer Mitternacht” (“I stand in the darkest midnight”). The novella Jud Süß (“Süss the Jew”), infamous for its antisemitism, was published in 1827; a film version was produced by the Nazi Party as propaganda in 1940.

In January 1827, Hauff undertook the editorship of the Stuttgart Morgenblatt and in the following month married his cousin Luise Hauff, but his happiness was prematurely cut short by his death from typhoid fever on 18 November 1827.

His Sämtliche Werke (Collected works), with a biography, edited by Gustav Schwab were published in 3 volumes 1830–1834, and 5 volumes (18th ed.) in 1882. They were also published by Felix Bobertag 1891–1897. A selection from his works was published by M. Mendheim (3 vols, 1891).  A six-volume edition, with a biographical introduction by Alfred Weile, was published in 1911 by A. Weichert.

Christopher Morley’s English translations of Hauff’s short story “The Young Foreigner” and Alfred de Musset’s tale “The Story of a White Blackbird” were published together in book form by Doubleday in 1925.

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