Christoph Martin Wieland
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Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman, as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the
1805 portrait of Christoph Martin Wieland by Ferdinand Jagemann
Birthplace of Christoph Martin Wieland in Oberholzheim (1840)
View of Schloss Warthausen by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1781)
Former Komödienhaus in der Schlachtmetzig in Biberach an der Riss where in 1762, The Tempest (Shakespeare), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland, was performed for the first time in Germany
Oberon (poem)
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Oberon is an epic poem by the German writer Christoph Martin Wieland. It was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French medieval tale, and influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dre
Christoph Martin Wieland
…writer, representative of literary Rococo. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon), as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for both Friederike Sophie Seyler's opera of the same name and Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same name. His thought was…
Title page of the first edition, without the author's name.