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Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an
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whose works made an impression on
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and
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, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in
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. A poet and dramatist of highly individual character, he is today remembered in German-speaking literary circles mainly for his translations of the Polish poet
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; he is also known to
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as having been a close friend of
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.


Life

Lipiner was born in
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. A prodigious talent, he produced a well-regarded treatment of 'Prometheus Unbound' in 1876, He attended the
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as a student of
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,
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and natural science; one of his teachers was
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. By his early twenties, he had produced an important work on the philosophy of
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, and become a personal acquaintance of Nietzsche, who had called him 'a veritable genius'. They did correspond but never met. Lipiner met Wagner who admired the writer, but didn't like the man. Lipiner's ideas are against pessimism. He shows the way to faith. Gustav Mahler used to ask him many metaphysical questions, in order to overcome his own doubts. Lipiner was 24 when he met the 20-year-old Mahler, and his views on various subjects (including the 'redemptive' qualities of artistic creation) came to influence the young composer to a considerable extent. Lipiner features in the 'Recollections of Gustav Mahler' assembled by
Natalie Bauer-Lechner Natalie atalia Anna JulianaBauer-Lechner (Penzing, Vienna, 9 May 1858 – Vienna, 8 June 1921) was an Austrian violist who is best known to musicology for having been a close and devoted friend of Gustav Mahler in the period between 1890 and the s ...
— who seems also to have kept a similar record of his actions and conversations, though this is now lost. As his creativity waned, Lipiner's reputation seems to have depended more and more upon his personal fascination as a 'bon viveur' and skilled improviser of the philosophical rhapsodies with which he would entertain his circle of illustrious acquaintances in Vienna. Mahler's marriage to
Alma Schindler Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early year ...
in 1902 was followed by the composer's breaking with Lipiner for several years: the man whom
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described as 'that shy, melancholy, sensitive poet' and whom Mahler usually addressed as 'dearest Siegfried' was for Alma the object of a venomous dislike: "a bogus Goethe in his writing and a haggling
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in his talk". By the end of Mahler's life, however, the two men had resumed their friendship. Lipiner died in
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a few months after Mahler's death. Lipiner has translated Mickiewicz, the Totenfeier (1887). Lipiner has been a librarian at the Reichsrat in Vienna, for 30 years.


Works

* Der Entfesselte Prometheus. Eine Dichtung in 5 Gesängen. Leipzig 1876; * Renatus. Epische Dichtung. Leipzig 1878; * Ueber die Elemente einer Erneuerung religiöser Ideen der Gegenwart. Vortrag gehalten im Leseverein der deutschen Studenten Wien. Wien 1878; * Buch der Freude. edichteLeipzig 1880; *
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(Fragment eines Epos) 1883; * Merlin. Operndichtung in 3 Akten. Musik von Karl Goldmark. Textbuch. Leipzig 1886; * Homunculus. Eine Studie über 'Faust' und die Philosophie Goethes. Diss. Wien 1894; * Kassandra. Drama 1910; * Adam. Ein Vorspiel. Stuttgart 1913, Bern 1974; * Hippolytos. Drama 1893; * Der neue Don Juan. Trauerspiel in 5 Akten. Stuttgart 1914; * Herr Thaddäus oder Der letzte Eintritt in Litauen: ein Epos aus der Napoleonischen Zeit. Von Adam Mickiewicz, übers. von S. L. Freiburg im Breisgau 1951. Bibliography : Gabriele BREZINA, Siegfried Lipiner, dissertation, 1925. Hartmut von HARTUNGEN, Der Dichter Siegfried Lipiner, Dissretation, Univ. of Munich, 1932 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lipiner, Siegfried 1856 births 1911 deaths 19th-century Austrian poets Jewish poets Austrian male poets German-language writers Austrian Jews People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) People from Jarosław 19th-century male writers