Undine

Quel est le sujet du livre "Undine"

Diese Erzählung, die zu den schönsten Kunstmärchen gehört, sichert Fouqué auch heute noch einen Platz in der Literatur. Die Nixe Undine trachtet nach einer Seele, die sie nur durch die Liebe eines Mannes bekommen kann. Durch die Unzulänglichkeit und Untreue der Menschen kann sie jedoch ihr ersehntes Ziel nicht erreichen: Ihr geliebter Mann, der Ritter Hildebrand, verliert sein Leben, und Undine muss zurück in das Wasser, ihr eigentliches Element. Das Märchen fand begeisterte Aufnahme und erfuhr eine Fülle von ?oebersetzungen. Das Nachwort bringt Daten zu Fouque's Leben und zu seiner Undine.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the romantic style.

He was born at Brandenburg an der Havel, of a family of French Huguenot origin, as evidenced in his family name. His grandfather, Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué, had been one of Frederick the Great's generals and his father was a Prussian officer. Although not originally intended for a military career, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ultimately gave up his university studies at Halle to join the army, and he took part in the Rhine campaign of 1794. The rest of his life was devoted mainly to literary pursuits. He was introduced to August Wilhelm Schlegel, who deeply influenced him as a poet (mich gelehret Maß und Regel | Meister August Wilhelm Schlegel) and who published Fouqué's first book, Dramatische Spiele von Pellegrin, in 1804.

Fouqué's first marriage was unhappy and soon ended in divorce. His second wife, Caroline Philippine von Briest (1773-1831), enjoyed some reputation as a novelist in her day. After her death Fouqué married a third time. Some consolation for the ebbing tide of popular favour was afforded him by the munificence of Frederick William IV of Prussia, who granted him a pension which allowed him to spend his later years in comfort. He died in Berlin in 1843.