Born: 30 May
1773 in Berlin (capital of rationalism and later became one of the
main centres of the Romantic Movement).
He attended
the Friedrich-Werdersche Gymnasium, and the universities of Halle,
Göttingen and Erlangen.
1794: returned
to Berlin and decided to try and make a living as a writer.
1798: got
married.
A year later
he settled in Jena (where the two Schlegel brother and Novalis were
the leaders of the new Romantic school).
1797: published
a collection of 'Märchen' containing Der blonde
Eckbert and Der Runenberg. This was a time when Tieck
was characteristically at his best.
1801: went
to live in Dresden followed by a couple of months in Italy.
1817: went
to England to collect materials for a work he was going to do on
Shakespeare but which he never actually finished.
1819: resettled
in Dresden.
He had written
virtually nothing for 10 years and re-emerged in 1821 with a series
of 'Novellen'.
From 1825
he was a literary adviser to the Court Theatre.
1841: was
invited to Berlin by Friedrich Wilhelm IV. of Prussia.
Died: 28
April 1853.
Tieck
was a skilled and visionary German poet, writer and critic of the
early Romantic Movement. Nature is a prominent feature of his works,
which often evokes fear and a feeling of being overwhelmed in the
characters. He also combined fairy tale elements and more complex
characters and issues to create a sense of dreaminess which causes
the characters to be unable to differentiate between reality and non-reality.
His works published under the title 'Volksmärchen' show
his transition from ‘Sturm und Drang’ to Romanticism.
He ‘became the pre-eminent German writer after the death of
Goethe.’
,
Göttingen and Erlangen.
Tieck
was a skilled and visionary German poet, writer and critic of the
early Romantic Movement. Nature is a prominent feature of his works,
which often evokes fear and a feeling of being overwhelmed in the
characters. He also combined fairy tale elements and more complex
characters and issues to create a sense of dreaminess which causes
the characters to be unable to differentiate between reality and non-reality.
His works published under the title 'Volksmärchen' show
his transition from ‘Sturm und Drang’ to Romanticism.
He ‘became the pre-eminent German writer after the death of
Goethe.’