Heinrich Leopold Wagner

Heinrich Leopold Wagner (Strasbourg, February 19th 1747 - Francfort-sur-le-Main, March 4th 1779) was the oldest son of a tradesman.

After having studied of right to Strasbourg, he was tutor with Saarbrucken. He resided then at Deux-Ponts, Giessen and finally Francfort-sur-le-Main. In 1776 it resumed its studies in Strasbourg and finished them by the doctorate. From the September 21st, 1776, he exerted in Frankfurt as lawyer but he died still young person, on March 4th, 1779, at the 32 years age, undoubtedly of the pulmonary Tuberculose.

Wagner was in liaison with several considerable writers of the movement Sturm und Drang , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), Christoph Kaufmann (1753-1795), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) and Johann Friedrich Müller, called Müller the painter (1749-1825).

With Klinger and Lenz, Wagner was qualified by its contemporaries of “Goethianer”, since these three authors belonged to the circle of the close friends of Goethe. Itself however is the least important. Its principal work is a drama, published in 1776, the Loophole of children , a drama of social criticism typical of the movement Sturm und Drang . This work was republished in 1957 per Peter Hacks.

Reference

the Alsatian popular theater with the XIX° century , Jean-Marie GALL, Istra, Strasbourg, 1973: 208 p.

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