Frank Wedekind - Lenzburg, AG, Switzerland
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A stone plate near Lenzburg Castle commemorating the playwright Frank Wedekind, who spent most of his youth here.
Waymark Code: WMRY46
Location: Aargau, Switzerland
Date Posted: 08/21/2016
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EN: Frank Wedekind (actually Benjamin Franklin Wedekind, 1864 - 1918) was an important German author and playwright. His socially critical plays were among the most frequently performed, but also the most controversial ones of the early 20th century.
Wedekind's father emigrated after the failed March revolution in 1848 to California, where he had acquired a considerable fortune. In the year of Wedekind's birth in 1864, the family returned to Germany, but in 1872 they emigrated again to Switzerland, where his father had bought the Lenzburg Castle.
Wedekind spent his youth at Lenzburg Castle. He studied in Zürich and Lausanne. In 1889 he moved to Munich, where he lived, except for some years in Paris, until his death in 1918.
The stone plate is located on a wall below the castle hill. The text reads: "To the memory of the poet Frank Wedekind 1864 1918, who spent his youth at Lenzburg Castle, and he later often stayed and worked in the house 'zum Steinbrüchli' where his mother lived."
DE: Frank Wedekind (eigentlich Benjamin Franklin Wedekind, 1864 - 1918) war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller. Seine gesellschaftskritischen Theaterstücke gehörten zu den meistgespielten, aber auch umstrittensten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.
Wedekinds Vater war 1848 nach der gescheiterten März-Revolution nach Kalifornien ausgewandert, wo er ein bedeutendes Vermögen erworben hatte. In Wedekinds Geburtsjahr 1864 kehrte die Familie nach Deutschland zurück, aber schon 1872 emigrierte sie in die Schweiz, wo der Vater das Schloss Lenzburg gekauft hatte.
Wedekind verbrachte seine Jugend auf Schloss Lenzburg. Danach studierte er in Zürich und Lausanne. 1889 zog er nach München, wo er mit Ausnahme einiger Jahre in Paris, bis zu seinem Tod 1918 lebte.
Die Steintafel befindet sich an einer Mauer unterhalb des Schlosshügels. Der Text darauf lautet: "Dem Andenken des Dichters Frank Wedekind 1864 1918, der seine Jugendjahre auf Schloss Lenzburg verbrachte und in dem später von seiner Mutter bewohnten Haus 'zum Steinbrüchli' oft weilte und arbeitete."
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