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  Gottfried Keller - LoveToKnow 1911
GOTTFRIED KELLER (1819-1890), German poet and novelist, was born at Zurich on the 19th of July 1819.
His father, a master joiner, dying while Gottfried was young, his early education was neglected; he, however, was in 1835 apprenticed to a landscape painter, and subsequently spent two years (1840-1842) in Munich learning to paint.
Keller; sa vie et ses oeuvres (1893); A. Frey, Erinnerungen an Gottfried Keller (1893); J. Baechtold, Kellers Leben.
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 Gottfried Keller
Keller's writings attracted the attention of Nietzsche, who admired the author's fight against romanticism and and saw in this a sign of strength and inner wellbeing.
Keller's economic situation was difficult, but these years saw the maturing of his first major work, the long autobiographical DER GRÜNE HEINRICH (Green Henry).
Keller attacked the sometimes brutal economic development that transformed Swiss society and supported forces of liberalism - "more than once a change of government and the expansion of freedom have resulted from an unjust cause or untrue pretence," he once wrote.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gkeller.htm   (1330 words)

  
  Gottfried Keller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gottfried Keller (July 19, 1819 July 15, 1890) was a Swiss writer who is best known as the master of the Novelle.
Early in life, Keller threw aside all conventional beliefs, and his religion henceforth was a deep love of and a joyous faith in all life.
Although Keller was in many respects decidedly matter-of-fact, a calm objective observer with a strong leaning toward utilitarian ideals—he had all the homely virtues of his ancestry—he nevertheless delighted in a myth-creating fancy.
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 Gottfried Keller -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gottfried Keller (July 19, 1819 – July 15, 1890) was a (The natives or inhabitants of Switzerland) Swiss poet who is best known as the master of the Novelle style.
Early in life, Keller threw aside all conventional beliefs, and his (A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) religion henceforth was a deep love of and a joyous faith in all life.
Although Keller was in many respects decidedly matter-of-fact, a calm objective observer with a strong leaning toward (Someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility) utilitarian ideals—he had all the homely virtues of his ancestry—he nevertheless delighted in a myth-creating fancy.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/gottfried_keller.htm   (260 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller - Wikipedia
Später trat neben seiner Mutter und seiner Schwester eine dritte Frau in sein Leben.
Gottfried Keller verliebte sich unglücklich in Marie Melos, die Schwägerin von Ferdinand Freiligrath.
H.E. Giehrl, Gottfried Keller: "Kleider machen Leute"; in: J.Lehmann (Hg.), Deutsche Novellen von Goethe bis Walser.
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 Gottfried Keller
Sein Vater beeinflußte Kellers späteren Idealismus in der Politik.
Trotzdem vergab Keller seine Mutter für diese Ehe nie.
Keller schrieb in sein Tagebuch, daß er ein sehr schlechtes Gewissen wegen der Auseinandersetzungen mit seiner Mutter und Schwester hätte.
www.orst.edu /instruct/ger341/!keller.htm   (1565 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller
Zwei Ereignisse in Kindheit und Jugend wurden für Kellers Leben und Schreiben bestimmend: der Tod des Vaters in seinem 5.
Von nun an schlug sich Keller Jahre hindurch unstet durch das Leben, versuchte sich als Landschaftsmaler in München, trieb autodidaktische Studien, mischte sich seit Mitte der vierziger Jahre in die politischen Kämpfe seines Landes ein und schrieb Gedichte im Blick auf eine neue liberalere Gesellschaftsordnung.
Zu Unrecht ist über Kellers epischem Werk sein lyrisches vernachlässigt worden.
www.uni-essen.de /literaturwissenschaft-aktiv/Vorlesungen/epik/keller.htm   (706 words)

  
 Geschi.de: Keller, Gottfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bereits 1824 starb sein Vater, der Drechslermeister Hans-Rudolf Keller.
Keller versuchte im Sommer 1847 Ordnung in sein Leben zu bringen, indem er als Volontär in der Staatskanzlei des Kantons Zürich arbeitete.
Das Jahr 1848 brachte für Keller eine entscheidende Wendung: Die Zürcher Regierung, aufmerksam geworden durch seine Aufsätze zu Literatur und Kunst, die im Cottaischen Kunstblatt, in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung und in den Blättern für literarische Unterhaltung erschienen waren, verlieh ihm ein Stipendium für einen Studienaufenthalt in Heidelberg.
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 German_new   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Keller studied at Heidelberg, where he was introduced to new philosophical ideas (undermining of faith by Feuerbach), and new literature (Goethe).
Keller lived in Berlin, moved in literary circles, attempted to beceome a dramatist, never finished a play, but discovered his talent for fiction and wrote his first works.
Keller never married, though he was engaged once, at nearly 50, to a 22 year-old.
camden-www.rutgers.edu /dept-pages/german/keller.html   (249 words)

  
 Schröder & Kalender » Blog Archive » Gottfried Keller, ›Der grüne Heinrich‹ in Berlin
Und jeder, der in deutscher Sprache selbstbiographische Texte schreibt, muß natürlich den Ur-Heinrich gelesen haben, den Keller in Heidelberg begonnen hatte, den er in den Jahren 1850 bis 1855 in Berlin vollendete und der dann bei Vieweg in Braunschweig erschien.
Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später gab Gottfried Keller den Roman dann in einer grundlegend überarbeiteten Fassung heraus.
Der zweite Grund, weshalb wir zu Gottfried Keller mußten, hatte nichts mit dem Dichter zu tun, sondern diente der Befestigung einer neuen entente cordiale.
www.taz.de /blogs/schroederkalender/2006/11/05/gottfried-keller-der-gruene-heinrich-in-berlin   (567 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller Biography / Biography of Gottfried Keller Main Biography
The Swiss short-story writer, novelist, and poet Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was a master of the realistic novella and author of one of the outstanding German novels of his age.
Gottfried Keller was born in Zurich on July 19, 1819, and grew up in great poverty.
Keller's life was marked by aimlessness and general inactivity, except for the publication of Gedichten (1846), a volume of poetry, until a government grant in 1848 permitted study at Heidelberg.
www.bookrags.com /biography-gottfried-keller   (215 words)

  
 UWSP news-Ruppel book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Keller, as many critics have argued, has become the greatest author to emerge from 19th century Switzerland and one of the most prominent writing in German during the mid-19th century.
In the opening chapters, the author attempts to capture the literary industry of Keller's day, to show what it was like to be an author in an age of great industrial expansion and increasing literacy among the European general populace.
The early chapters also shed light on Keller's correspondence with fellow authors and publishers and reveals his reactions to his critics who were professors of philosophy, history and aesthetics, who practiced an early form of journalistic criticism in the newly emerging field of literary criticism.
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 Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890) was a Swiss poet.
Kellier is best known as the master of the Novelle[?] style.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 GOTTFRIED KELLER (1819... - Online Information article about GOTTFRIED KELLER (1819...
Keller: A Selection of his Tales translated with a Memoir by Kate See also:
Keller nach seinem Leben and Dichten (1892) ; F.
Keller (1900; 2nd ed., 1907); and for his See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KELLER_GOTTFRIED_1819_1890_.html   (613 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Gottfried Keller (Miscellaneous European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Gottfried Keller[gOt´frEt] Pronunciation Key, 1819–90, Swiss novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
His vital, realistic, and purposeful fiction gives him a high place among 19th-century authors.
See J. Lindsay, Gottfried Keller: Life and Works (Am.
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 Encyclopedia: Gottfried Keller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gottfried Keller (July 19, 1819 –; July 15, 1890) was a Swiss writer who is best known as the master of the Novelle.
Zürich IPA (in English often Zurich, which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 364,558 in 2002; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich.
Utilitarianism is a theory of ethics based on quantitative maximisation of happiness for society or humanity.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gottfried-Keller   (492 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller, Biographie (1/4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In der »Jugendgeschichte« des Grünen Heinrich verschwieg Keller diese Tatsache, ebenso die Existenz seiner Schwester Regula; ansonsten aber liefert die »Jugendgeschichte« ein authentisches Bild seiner, wie er schrieb, »eigentlichen Kindheit, sogar das Anekdotische darin« sei »so gut wie wahr«.
Keller hatte keine konkreten Pläne, er »vegetierte den Winter hindurch ziemlich langweilig und elend«.
Keller gefiel sich als radikaler Demokrat, der alles Konservative mit glühendem Haß belegte.
www.xlibris.de /Autoren/Keller/Keller-Biographie/Keller-Biographie.htm   (328 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller was a novelist, poet, and statesman.
For performing a small prank, Keller was expelled from school at the age of 15.
Gottfried Keller died in 1890, having made a great contribution not just to Zurich or Switzerland, but to German Literature as a whole.
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 Youth Orchestra 11/21/04
Switzerland's great literary classic, Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), was inspired by this true story to write what would become one of his best-known works, the short novel Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe ("A Village Romeo and Juliet").
Keller's young heroes, Sali and Vrenchen, see no future for their love, and after a single day of happiness, they decide to end their lives together.
Keller, who was also a distinguished poet, represented a trend known as "poetic realism" is German literature.
www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/performance/program_notes/112104.html   (2368 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Poetics of Skepticism: Gottfried Keller and Die Leute Von Seldwyla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gottfried Keller is arguably the greatest prose writer of 19th century Switzerland.
By means of a close reading, this study uncovers a whole number of undercurrents and tensions in the seemingly sturdy narratives of rural life.
In the range and thoughtfulness of his debate with the social, historical and psychological experience of his own age and culture, Keller emerges as a writer of significant stature.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0854969039   (309 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Gottfried Keller & His Critics: A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism by Richard R Ruppel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gottfried Keller and His Critics: A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism
The works of Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) rank alongside those of Goethe and Thomas Mann, yet this volume is the first in any language to examine thecritical assessment and scholarly expertise devoted to him, ranging from the early stages of journalistic criticism to the present day.
Survey of the criticism devoted to Gottfried Keller, the important nineteenth-century writer in German.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=63-1571130551-0   (226 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller Collection at Bartleby.com
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Authors > Fiction > Harvard Classics > Gottfried Keller
Keller was a romantic realist with the soul of a poet, the eye of a man of science, and the temperament of an artist who loves life in all its manifestations.
His vital, realistic, and purposeful fiction gives him a high place among 19th-century authors.
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 Gottfried Keller ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Keller and Guerin, Vase with snakes, circa 1900
Johann Elias Haid, Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Lebniz, 1781
Gottfried Spiller, Goblet engraved to commemerate the Wedding of Frederick II and Princess Christina, 1733
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 Keller, Gottfried --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Gottfried Keller, drawing by R. Leemann, 1842; in the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
He took for his models the late Romantics and Eduard Mörike, who, along with Gottfried Keller, Paul von Heyse, and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, was his...
But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” This is how Helen Keller described the beginning of her “new life,” when despite blindness and deafness she learned to communicate...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045007?tocId=9045007   (646 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller - Schön ist doch das Leben! - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Denn Gottfried Keller, hält die Rezensentin fest, war zwar ein unbequemer Zeitgenosse und auch aufbrausender Mensch, aber er war ebenso ein vorzüglicher Stilist, charmanter Unterhalter, guter aber auch scharfzüngiger Beobachter, eine Tratschbase und ein warmherziger Freund, zählt Doering auf.
Denn ein fröhlicher Mensch sei Keller beileibe nicht gewesen: "Nüchterner, realitätszugewandter, zugleich aber auch selbstkritischer als dieser Gottfried Keller jedenfalls war selten ein Sonderling", meint Schweikert.
In der Hypochondrie und der Unzufriedenheit des Genies mit sich selbst sei Keller höchstens noch mit Johannes Brahms zu vergleichen.
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 Keller, Gottfried --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The greatest German-Swiss writer of the late 19th-century realistic school was Gottfried Keller.
Keller was born on July 19, 1819, in Zürich, Switzerland.
His father, a lathe artisan, died in Gottfried's early childhood, but his strong-willed, devoted mother struggled to provide him with an education.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9328085?tocId=9328085&query=gottfried   (646 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Während seiner Ausbildung zum Maler in München erkannte er seine dichterische Begabung.
Kellers Briefe eignen sich hervorragend als Bausteine seiner Biografie: Dem Erzähler geraten viele Briefgeschichten zu wunderbaren Romanepisoden, seine plastischen Schilderungen stecken voller Details und komischer Bewertungen.
Was an den Briefen so imponiert, ist Kellers kompromisslose Haltung...
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 Feuerbach und Keller
Keller knüpft an eine traditionelle Symbolik der Blumen an.
Freilich erreicht Rilke nicht die gedankliche Strenge und kompositorische Klarheit Gottfried Kellers, der das "ewige Nimmerwiedersein" als letztes Wort in die letzte Zeile zaubert.
Gottfried Keller ist es in seiner Dichtkunst gelungen, die illusionslose Einsicht in die Endgütigkeit des Todes fruchtbar zu machen für ein positives Lebensgefühl.
www.ludwig-feuerbach.de /kahl_keller.htm   (2265 words)

  
 Keller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is also a Keller Williams, a jam-band musician.
Also, there is a Keller Graduate School of Management.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keller   (344 words)

  
 Gottfried Keller, Universitätsbibliothek, FU Berlin
http://web.skku.edu/german/essay/mla_bibl/keller98.htm - 87 Nachweise von Sekundärliteratur zu Gottfried Keller aus der MLA-Bibliography 1981-1998.
Dies vor allem deshalb, weil die bisherige fünfbändige Standard-Briefausgabe von Carl Helbling (1954-54) unvollständig ist und nur ausgewählte und meist gekürzte Briefe an Keller enthä,lt. Von besonderem Interesse ist die bisher nur teilweise erschlossene Korrespondenz Kellers mit seinen Verlegern und Herausgebern.
http://www.gottfriedkeller.ch/aufsatz/realien.htm - Walter Morgenthaler: 'Thatsächlich- und Persönlichkeiten' — Realien in Gottfried Kellers Züricher Novellen.
www.ub.fu-berlin.de /internetquellen/fachinformation/germanistik/autoren/multi_ijk/keller.html   (461 words)

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