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- Mörike was a member of the so-called Swabian school of writers around Ludwig Uhland. His poems (Gedichte, 1838), are mostly lyrical, yet often humorous and written in simple and seemingly everyday German. His ballad "Schön Rotraut" – opening with the line "Wie heisst König Ringangs Töchterlein?" – became a popular favorite.
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May 31, 2024 · Eduard Friedrich Mörike was one of Germany’s greatest lyric poets. After studying theology at Tübingen (1822–26), Mörike held several curacies before becoming, in 1834, pastor of Cleversulzbach, the remote Württemberg village immortalized in Der alte Turmhahn, where inhabitants and pastor are seen.
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Eduard Friedrich Mörike (German pronunciation: [ˈeːduart ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmøːʁɪkə]; 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels.
Eduard Mörike (MOH-ree-kuh) belongs to the group of German Romantic writers called the Swabian School. His poems are simple, cheerful, and readable, without being trivial.
His first publication was a three-hundred-page novella in two parts, Maler Nolten (1832; Nolten the Painter: A Novella in Two Parts, 2005). He also wrote seven shorter works; the most well-known...
Eduard Mörike. 1804 - 1875. Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet. Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike (d. 1817), a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer. He attended the Latin school at Ludwigsburg, and the seminary at Urach (1818) where he made the acquaintance of Wilhelm ...
Quick Reference. (1804–75), Swabian novelist and poet. Mörike published three prose narratives explicitly called ‘fairy tales’.
One of the most startling poems Mörike ever wrote was Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens: Wolf cited it as exemplifying the “daemonic truth,” something “written with blood,” he most admired in Mörike. The poet flirts with the boundaries between pornography and high poetic art; 60 years later, a composer living covertly outside the ...
