Johann Dünnehaupt’s Jacob
A Unicum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9855027 |
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| Authors | William A Kozumplik (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1942 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-38 |
| Publication date | 1942-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19306962.1942.11786068 |
| OpenAlex | W2558021059 |
| Language | DE |
NotesWilhelm Scherer (“Deutsche Studien,” iii, Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Classe, xc [1878], pp. 193–242) has pointed out that Joachim Greff’s part in writing this play was insignificant. I shall refer to it as “Major’s” play.Cf. The Catalogue of the Books in the British Museum, s.v., “Jacob (the patriarch)”; Karl Goedeke, Grundriß zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen, ii2 (Dresden, 1886), p. 357, Nos. 123–125; Wendelin von Maltzahn, Deutscher Bücherschatz des sechszehnten, siebenzehnten und achtzehnten bis um die Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Jena, 1875), p. 177, No. 1082; Michael Holzmann and Hanns Bohatta, Deutsches Anonymen-Lexicon 1501–1850, iv (Weimar, 1907), p. 106, 3272; Martineau de Soleinne, Bibliothèque dramatique, iv (Paris, 1844), p. 197, No. 4966; Johann Christoph Gottsched, Nöthiger Vorrath zur Geschichte der deutschen Dramatischen Dichtkunst..., i (Leipzig, 1757), pp. 65 and 84. This last item is in the Rare Book Room at the University of Chicago.New York, 1939, p. 6 and note 18.Professor Kunstmann had likewise collected separately much the same evidence that I have brought together; I profited very much from him in our discussion of the problem.My own and the inquiries of the Union Catalogue of the Library of Congress have yielded negative results. The same holds true for anything by Johann Dünnehaupt.W. Scherer, op. cit., pp. 193–242.Ibid., pp.205–211.Page 1 is the first page in the book. According to the arrangement and the sequence of the quaternions, it appears as though four leaves (eight pages) might have originally preceded p. 1. Missing, then, are the title page and the pages that contained the list of persons in the play. For the probable existence of such a list, see below, p. 36.Cf. George J. Metcalf, Forms of Address in German (1500–1800), in “Washington University Studies,” New Series, Language and Literature, No. 7 (St. Louis, 1938), pp. 64–65, 101, 109–114, 118, 172; cf. also Modern Language Notes, lv (1940), pp. 298–300; THE GERMANIC REVIEW, xv (1940), pp. 73–75; Journal of English and Germanic Philology, xxxix (1940), p. 598.Each scene, of which there are fifty in the play, usually ends with an aria; some even begin with an aria. The more important acts are both introduced and concluded by two or three arias (acts iv and v). Some of the arias are hymnlike (e.g., in act 1, scene 3; act iii, scene 6; act v, scenes 9 and 10); these I have not been able to identify in Philip Wackemagel, Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des xvii. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1864–1877, or in Johannes Zahn, Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder, aus den Quellen geschöpft ... Gütersloh, 1889–1893. Occasionally shepherd’s songs (act ii, scenes 3 and 8; act iii, scenes 3, 4, and 8) and lullabies take the place of arias. For an example of the latter, see below, p. 36. These lullabies are very much like the Wiegenlieder sung today by the German people; cf. Franz M. Böhme, Deutsches Kinderlied und Kinderspiel (Leipzig, 1897), pp. 1–38, nos. 1–130; cf. especially Nos. 37, 42, 45, 54–68, 88, 107–111, 125, 129. Scene 1 of act v is introduced and concluded by four love songs.We know from another source (see below, p. 36 and note 26) that four intermezzos or Zwischenspiele existed, possibly only in manuscript form. They are now lost. Since the pagination of the book is continuous, it is very likely that these unpublished incidental plays were originally inserted loosely between the acts in the book. On the other hand, following the accepted tradition, it is also very likely that different sets of incidental plays were changed with each new performance of the major play. In such a case, we may assume that very little importance was attached to the “between-the-acts” plays; hence no attempt was made to preserve them.Cf. Beyträge Zur Critischen Historie Der Deutschen Sprache, Poesie und Beredsamkeit, herausgegeben von Einigen Mitgliedern der Deutschen Gesellschaft in Leipzig, 1 (Leipzig, 1732), pp. 137–140, 149–150. I shall refer to this book as Critische Beyträge. Cf. also Willi Flemming, Die Oper, in Deutsche Literatur, Reihe Barock: Barockdrama, v (Leipzig, 1933), pp. 5–83; especially pp. 7, 19, 24–25, 28–31, 65–73, 79–83; Fritz Hammes, Das Zwischenspiel im deutschen Drama von seinen Anfängen bis auf Gottsched, vornehmlich der Jahre 1500–1600, in “Literarhistorische Forschungen,” xlv (Berlin, 1911), pp. 82–194; especially pp. 192, 194.iii3 (Dresden, 1887).i, 235–301; ii, 257–268; also Gottfried Christian Freiesieben, Kleine Nachlese, zu des berühmten Herrn Professor Gottscheds nöthigem Vorrathe zur Geschichte der deutschen dramatischen Dichtkunst (Leipzig, 1760), pp. 46–71. This, with separate pagination, is bound with parts i and ii of Gottsched’s Nöthiger Vorrath..Nöthiger Vorrath, pp. 273–274. Gottsched possessed this copy.The meaning of this escapes me. Is it a typographical error? Does it mean that the play was also performed on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of October? A summary glance through Gottsched’s work fails to reveal a similar “error.”.Pp. 137–150. For full title see note 12 above.Apart from the evidence in the title of the play, cf. Critische Beyträge, pp. 146–140.Friedrich Ernst Kettner, Kirchen- und Reformations-Historie / Des Käyserl. Freyen Weltlichen Stiffts Qvedlinburg . . . (Quedlinburg, 1710), pp. 7–14, 189–201; Johann Heinrich Fritsch, Geschichte des vormaligen Reichsstifts und der Stadt Quedlinburg (Quedlinburg, 1828), p. 3. These two works were kindly lent to me by the librarian of the Harvard University Library. Cf. further, Adalbert Düning, Geschichte des Gymnasiums zu Quedlinburg (Quedlinburg, 1890), p. 7. I have not seen Carl Christian Volgt, Geschichte des Stifts Quedlinburg (Leipzig, Quedlinburg, 1786–1791); Karl Ferdinand Ranke, “Das Gymnasium zu Quedlinburg, seine Geschichte und jetzige Beschaffenheit,” Quedlinburger Wochenblatt (1835), Nos. 2–17.Critische Beyträge, pp. 141–145.Was Gottsched’s copy of another edition? It is to be remembered that the title of his copy is not quite identical with the one listed in the Critische Beyträge, cf. above, p. 34.Critische Beyträge, p. 143.Ibid., p. 144.Ibid., p. 138.At the end of act 1, p. 84.Critische Beyträge, pp. 149–150; I quote from p. 149: “Nun sollte noch etwas von den Zwischenspielen unsere Stückes gesagt werden: Wenn uns der Verfasser dieselben auch hätte mittheilen wollen. Allein er muß sie wohl selbst des Druckes unwürdig geachtet haben, weil er uns nur die Nahmen der spielenden Personen anzuzeigen vor gut befunden hat. In dem ersten ist Pancratius, ein alter Schulmeister, die Hauptperson ... Das andre Zwischenspiel soll von der Belagerung der Faliscorum handeln ... Das dritte Zwischenspiel vom Pomo Eridos, oder dem Zankapfel ... Das vierte Zwischenspiel endlich handelt von dem Kampfe der Curiatier und Horatier ... ”; cf. also pp. 138–139.Ibid., pp. 137–138 and especially pp. 146–150. I quote from pp. 146–147: “Nunmehro kan ich also meine Leser fragen, ob eine solche Probe von Theatralischen Gedichten unsem Zeiten wohl zur Ehre gereichen könne? Dieses Schauspiel ist noch nicht dreyßig Jahr alt, und ist gar von jemanden gemacht, der als ein Schulmann die Sache von rechtswegen hätte verstehen sollen ... Auf hohen Schulen will niemand die Regeln der freyen Künste lernen, und hernach wenn sich jemand zu sonst nichts geschickt befindet, so denkt er einem Schulamte noch überflüssig gewachsen zu seyn: Gerade als wenn die dazu gehörige Wissenschaft in den Classen schon wäre gelernet worden, oder jemanden im Schlafe eingegeben würde.”.These three processes are evident from the careful reconstruction work performed on the bottom corner of leaf 163–164.Cf. F. E. Kettner, op. cit., p. 245. Cf. also, Critische Beyträge, pp. 146–149; see note 27 above.He was the nineteenth conrector of the Gymnasium at Quedlinburg since its establishment by Abbess Anna von Stollberg in 1539; cf. Kettner, op. cit., pp. 242–234, 245.Ibid., p. 228.Her full title, taken from a legal document quoted by Kettner in his Beylagen Von des Stiftes Quedlinburg Fundation, Confirmation und Reformations-Historie, p. 47 (this, with separate pagination, is part of Kettner’s Kirchen- und Reformations-Historie, etc.), is: “Anna Dorothea / Herzogin zu Sachsen / Jülich / Cleve und Berg / auch Engern und Westphalen / LandGräfin in Thüringen / Marg-Gräfin zu Meißen / des Käyserl. Freyen Weltl. Stiffts Qvedlinburg Abbatissin / Gefürstete Gräfin zu Henneberg / Gräfin zu der Mark und Ravensberg / Frau zum Ravenstein usw.”.Cf. Kettner, Kirchen- und Reformations-Historie, pp. 148, 164–167, 288; Kettner. Beylagen, p. 88
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