Joseph Marius Babo

Joseph Marius Babo
Oil portrait by Johann Georg Edlinger
Born	(1756-01-14)14 January 1756 Ehrenbreitstein
Died	5 February 1822(1822-02-05) (aged 66) Munich

Joseph Marius Babo (January 14, 1756 in Ehrenbreitstein – February 5, 1822 in Munich). As a dramatist, Babo preferred action based on history. In , written in 1781, he followed the path blazed by Goethe in Götz von Berlichingen. Sometimes one could see he was acquainted with Shakespeare. He filled a variety of pedagogical and bureaucratic roles related to the theater over his life.

Works[]

Playbill for the debut of Bürgerglück on the occasion of the dedication of the Bremer Stadttheater (1792)

• Arno (1776)
• Das Lustlager (1778, probable author)
• Das Winterquartier in Amerika (1778)
• Dagobert der Franken König (1779; English edition: Dagobert, King of the Franks, 1800)
• Reinhold und Armida (1780)
• Die Römer in Teutschland (1780)
• Otto von Wittelsbach (1782), a play based on the life of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (1206–1253), and Count Palatine of the Rhine
• Die Maler (1783)
• Die Fräulein Wohlerzogen (1783)
• Ueber Freymaurer. Erste Warnung (1784)
• Nöthige Beylage zur Schrift: Über die Freymaurer „erste Warnung“ (1784)
• Gemälde aus dem Leben der Menschen (1784)
• Vollständiges Tagebuch der merkwürdigsten Begebenheiten und Revolutionen in Paris (1789, translated from French)
• Die Strelitzen (1790)
• Bürgerglück (1792)
• Anleitung zur Himmelskunde in leichtfaßlichen astronomischen Unterhaltungen (1793)
• Schauspiele (1793)
• Neue Schauspiele (1804)
• Der Puls (1805)
• Albrechts Rache für Agnes (1808)

Bibliography[]

• Pfeuffer, Ludwig: Joseph Marius Babo als Leiter des Münchener Nationaltheaters 1799–1810. München, Univ., Diss., 1913
• Wurst, Jürgen: Joseph Marius Babo. In: Wurst, Jürgen und Langheiter, Alexander (Hrsg.): Monachia. München: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2005. S. 163. ISBN 3-88645-156-9

References[]

• Joseph Kürschner (1875), "Babo, Joseph Marius Freiherr von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 726–727
• Portions of this article are based on translations from the German Wikipedia.
• Carl Schurz, Lebenserinnerungen bis zum Jahre 1852, Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1906 and 1911. (in German) As a student in a gymnasium in Cologne (Chapter 3), Schurz was in the care of a locksmith who took him to plays occasionally. Schurz writes: “The taste of my friend the locksmith ran to knight dramas ... The first piece I saw at the side of my locksmith was Otto von Wittelsbach, at that time a famous knight play in which the hero meets King Philipp of Swabia, who cheats him in a chess game. With an armored fist, the hero strikes the chess board so the pieces fly over the stage, and then strikes the king down with a blow from his sword.”

External links[]

• Joseph Marius Babo in the German National Library catalogue
• Bürgerglück in Google Books. (in German)
• Anleitung zur Himmelskunde in leichtfaßlichen astronomischen Unterhaltungen in Google Books. (in German)

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