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Karl August Georg Maximilian Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (24 October 1796 – 5 December 1835) was a German poet and dramatist. In German he mostly is called Graf (Count) Platen.[2]

August von Platen-Hallermünde
Born(1796-10-24)24 October 1796
Ansbach, Holy Roman Empire
Died5 December 1835(1835-12-05) (aged 39)
Syracuse, Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Resting placeMuseo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi[1]
Occupationpoet and dramatist
NationalityGerman

Biography


August von Platen was born on 24 October 1796 at Ansbach, the son of the Oberforstmeister (a senior public servant) of that state, Count Philipp August von Platen-Hallermünde, by second wife Baroness Christiane Eichler von Auriz. Shortly after his birth Ansbach and other Franconian principalities became incorporated with Bavaria. Platen entered the school of cadets (Kadettenhaus) in Munich, Bavaria, where he showed early poetic talent. In 1810 as an adolescent he passed into the royal school of pages (Königliche Pagerie).[3]

In 1814, Platen was appointed lieutenant in the regiment of Bavarian life-guards. With them he took part in the short campaign in France of 1815, being in bivouac for several months near Mannheim and in the department of the Yonne. He saw no fighting, however, and returned home with his regiment towards the close of the same year. Desiring to study, and finding garrison life distasteful, he obtained a long leave of absence, and after a tour in Switzerland and the Bavarian Alps, entered the University of Würzburg in 1818 as a student of philosophy and philology. In the following year Platen migrated to the university of Erlangen, where he sat at the feet of Schelling, and became one of his most enthusiastic admirers.[3]

As a result of his Oriental studies Platen published a little volume of poems—Ghaselen (1821), each consisting of ten to twenty verses, in which he imitates the style of Rückert; Lyrische Blätter (1821); Spiegel des Hafis (1822); Vermischte Schriften (1822); and Neue Ghaselen (1823). These attracted the attention of eminent men of letters among them Goethe, both by reason of their contents, which breathe the spirit of the East, and also of the purity and elegance of their form and diction.[4]

Though Platen was at first influenced by the school of Romanticism, and particularly by Spanish models, the plays written during his university life at Erlangen, Der gläserne Pantoffel, Der Schatz des Rhampsinit, Berengar, Treue um Treue, Der Turm mit sieben Pforten, show a clearness of plot and expression foreign to the Romantic style. His antagonism to the literature of his day became more and more pronounced, and he vented his indignation at the lack of art shown by the later Romanticists, the inanity of the lyricists, and the bad taste of the so-called fate tragedies (Schicksalstragödien), in the witty Aristophanic comedies Die verhängnißvolle Gabel (1826) and Der romantische Oedipus (1828).[5]

The want of interest, amounting even to hostility, with which Platen's enthusiasm for the purity and dignity of poetry was received in many literary circles in Germany increased the poet's indignation and disgust. In 1826, he visited Italy, which he henceforth made his home, living at Florence, Rome and Naples. His means were slender, but, though frequently necessitous, he felt happy in the life he had chosen, that of a "wandering rhapsodist".[5]

Offended by Heinrich Heine's mockery of "die Orientsucht"—the obsession with the Orient in poetry—in his work Reisebilder, zweiter Teil (1827), Platen expressed anti-Semitic sentiment directed at Heine in his work Der romantische Oedipus (1828). Heine reacted in turn by publicizing Platen's homosexuality in Reisebilder dritter Teil (1830). This back and forth of mockery and ad hominem attacks are also referred to as "die von Platen Affaire".[6]

Illustration for Die Abbassiden. From Gesammelte Werke, dritter Band. 1853.
Illustration for Die Abbassiden.
From Gesammelte Werke, dritter Band. 1853.

In Naples, where Platen formed the friendship of August Kopisch, the poet and painter, were written his last drama Die Liga von Cambrai (1833) and the delightful epic fairy-tale Die Abbassiden (1830; 1834), besides numerous lyrical poems, odes and ballads. He also essayed historical work in a fragment, Geschichte des Königreichs Neapel von 1414 bis 1443 (1838), without, however, achieving any marked success.[5]

In 1832, his father died, and after an absence of eight years Platen returned to Germany for a while, and in the winter of 1832–1833 lived at Munich, where he revised the first complete edition of his poems, Gedichte (1833).[5]

In the summer of 1834, Platen returned to Italy, and, after living in Florence and Naples, proceeded in 1835 to Sicily. Dread of the cholera, which was at that time very prevalent, induced him to move from place to place, and in November of that year he was taken ill at Syracuse, where he died on 5 December 1835.[5] He is buried in the non-Catholic cemetery of Syracuse.[7]

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "Like Heine himself, Platen failed in the drama, but his odes and sonnets, to which must be added his Polenlieder (1831), in which he gives vent to his warm sympathy for the Poles in their rising against the rule of the Tsar, are in language and metre so artistically finished as to rank among the best classical poems of modern times".[5] He gives his name to the Bavarian literary prize August-Graf-von-Platen-Preis.


Notes


  1. Ingo Schulze. Orangen und Engel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-82700916-6
  2. Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.
  3. Chisholm 1911, p. 804.
  4. Chisholm 1911, pp. 804–805.
  5. Chisholm 1911, p. 805.
  6. German Wikipedia: Platen-Affäre
  7. "August Von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835) - Find..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.

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- [en] August von Platen-Hallermünde

[es] August von Platen-Hallermünde

August von Platen-Hallermünde (Ansbach, 24 de octubre de 1796 - Siracusa, 5 de diciembre de 1835), fue un poeta y dramaturgo alemán.

[fr] August von Platen

August von Platen, né le 24 octobre 1796 à Ansbach et mort le 5 décembre 1835 à Syracuse, est un poète lyrique et dramaturge allemand. Appartenant au courant romantique allemand, ses journaux intimes révèlent une âme passionnée éprise d'idéal et une sensibilité exacerbée, profondément influencées par la Méditerranée et l'Orient.

[it] August von Platen-Hallermünde

Il conte August Karl Maximilian Georg Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (Ansbach, 24 ottobre 1796 – Siracusa, 5 dicembre 1835) è stato un poeta e drammaturgo tedesco.

[ru] Платен, Август фон

Карл Август Георг фон Платен-Халлермюнде (нем. Karl August Georg Maximilian Graf von Platen-Hallermünde, 24 октября 1796, Ансбах — 5 декабря 1835, Сиракузы) — немецкий поэт и драматург.


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