- Karl Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (born birth_date|1811|3|17 in
Berlin , died death_date|1878|12|16 in Sachsenhausen) was a Germanwriter notable in theYoung Germany movement of the mid-19th century.Gutzkow grew up in a rather poor family: his father, a brick layer by trade, worked in the stables of the Berlin court. Gutzkow studied theology and philosophy under Hegel and Schleiermacher. While Gutzkow started out as a collaborator of
Wolfgang Menzel , he ended up his adversary.His innovative novel "Wally die Zweiflerin" attacked both marriage and religion for which Gutzkow suffered a three-month imprisonment. This was used as a pretext in order to ban the works of many other progressive writers, amongst them
Heinrich Heine . Gutzkow was the editor of the "Telegraph für Deutschland" and became one of Germany's eminent critics. The novels "Die Ritter vom Geist" (1850/51) and "Der Zauberer von Rom" (1856/61) were very successful; Gutzkow used his newSimultantechnik in themfact|date=August 2007.His comedy in 5 acts "Zopf und Schwert" (1844) received two adaptations; in 1926 Aafa Film AG made the movie "Zopf und Schwert - Eine tolle Prinzessin" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190164/] , and
Edmund Nick used it for hisoperetta "Über alles siegt die Liebe" (Love Conquers Everything) (1940,libretto by Bruno Hardt-Warden).Gutzkow was never a revolutionary, and he became more conservative with age. He was one of the first Germans who tried to make a living by writingfact|date=August 2007. With his play "Uriel Acosta", and other works, he stood up for the
emancipation of the Jews fact|date=August 2007.External links
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