Ernst Alexander August George Wichert (11 March 1831 – 21 January 1902) was a German lawyer, judge, and author.
Biography
Wichert was born in
Insterburg
Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of ...
,
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
, (today Chernyakhovsk, Russia) and attended schools in
Pillau
Baltiysk (russian: Балти́йск; german: Pillau; Old Prussian: ''Pillawa''; pl, Piława; lt, Piliava; Yiddish: פּילאַווע, ''Pilave'') is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Rus ...
and
Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...
.
He studied law at the
University of Königsberg
The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...
and worked as an
assessor in
Memel. In 1860 Wichert became a district judge in
Prökuls (today Priekulė,
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
). In 1863 he returned to Königsberg as a judge of the local court and became an ''Oberlandesgerichtsrat'' in 1877 (sometimes also 1879 is reported). In 1888 Wichert moved to Berlin, where he became ''Kammergerichtsrat'' at the Berlin ''
Kammergericht
The Kammergericht (KG) is the ''Oberlandesgericht'', the highest state court, for the city-state of Berlin, Germany. As an ordinary court according to the German Courts Constitution Act (''Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz''), it deals with criminal a ...
''. He retired in 1896 and died in 1902.
While performing his duties as a judge, in his spare time Wichert wrote and published 34 stage plays, 28 novels and 15 multi-volume novellas.
Works
Stage plays
* ''Unser General York'', 1858
* ''Der Withing von Samland'', 1860
* ''Licht und Schatten'', 1861
* ''Der Narr des Glücks'', 1871
* ''Ein Schritt vom Wege'', 1873
* ''Die Realisten'', 1874
* ''Biegen oder Brechen'', 1874
* ''An der Majorsecke'', 1875
* ''Die Frau für die Welt'', 1876
* ''Der Freund des Fürsten'', 1879
* ''Peter Munk'', 1882
* ''Im Dienst der Pflicht'', 1896
* ''Als Verlobte empfehlen sich''
Novels and novellas
* ''Aus anständiger Familie'', 1866
* ''Ein hässlicher Mensch'', 1868
* ''Die Arbeiter'', 1873
* ''
Heinrich von Plauen
Heinrich von Plauen (the Elder) (ca. 1370–1429) was the 27th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from November 1410 to October 1413. Having becoming grandmaster in the wake of the Battle of Grunwald, he was a stern proponent of prol ...
'', 188
Online version* ''Litauische Geschichten'', 1881
* ''Aus dem Leben'', Novella, 1882
* ''Unter einer Decke'', Novella, 1883
* ''Der Große Kurfürst in Preußen'', 1887
* ''Die Taube auf dem Dache'', 1892
* ''Frauengegestalten'', 1894
* ''Die Schwestern'', 1896
* ''Der Bürgermeister von Thorn''
* ''Kleine Passionen''
Autobiography
* ''Richter und Dichter. Ein Lebensausweis'', 1899
Screen adaption
* ''Elzes Leben'' (''Elzė iš Giljos''), a film version of ''Der Schaktarp'', (Lit-D, 1999), directed by
Algimantas Puipa
Algimantas Puipa (born 14 June 1951) is a Lithuanian film director and screenwriter. With more than 70,000 admissions, his directed film '' Whisper of Sin'' was a success in Lithuania. Other successful films include ''Forest of the Gods'' and ''Elz ...
, appearing Endrikis
Andrius Paulavičius, Elzė
Eglė Jaselskytė,
Aušra Venckunaitė
Literature
* Margot Braun: ''Ernst Wicherts Roman "Der Große Kurfürst in Preußen". Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des historischen Romans im 19. Jahrhundert.'' Würzburg-Aumühle
References
*
External links
*
*
Gustav Freytag und Ernst Wichert Ernst Wichert' In: Datenbank Projekt Historischer Roman. University of Innsbruck.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wichert, Ernst
1831 births
1902 deaths
People from Insterburg
People from the Province of Prussia
German male novelists
German male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century German dramatists and playwrights
19th-century German novelists
19th-century German male writers
University of Königsberg alumni