250th birthday of Christoph Martin Wieland - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1983 - 80 Pfennig

250th birthday of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland On September 5, 1983, the 250th anniversary of the anniversary of the birth of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland in Oberholzheim is celebrated. The small village Oberholzheim belonged at that time to the Free Imperial City Biberach an der Riss, and the father of the poet had there his first office as a young Protestant pastor. The stamp goes back to the 1797 created drawing of the artist G. B. Bosio, which is handed down as an etching by Luigi Rados, a copper engraver from Parma. The figure of the older, about 60-year-old Wieland is placed in his garden in Biberach, which he had hired to spend his free time and poetry there. In 1768 he wrote to his friend Riedel: "... a small Tusculum is still mine, and until I inherit (for which there is little hope before the next twenty years), I also see no way to get one. In defiance of this, I have rented a pretty garden-house very near to our city, but in a somewhat lonely place, where I have the most pleasant view of the land from the world, and, as close as my house is in the city, yet completely in the country am. Here I bring my most idle hours of the summer, solus cum sola, but all alone with the muses, faunas, and grass-nymphs, from whom I have some in my face from time to time, which would leave the most abstemious hermit unturned. Here I see the boys bathing, not nymphs; I smell the lovely refreshing smell of the hay; I see cutting and preparing flax; On the one hand, from a distance, the churchyard reminds me, where the bones of my forefathers lie, that I should live as long and as well as I can; On another, a gallows, half hidden by bushes, lures far away from me the desire: that half a dozen villains, whom I see defiantly walking around, want to hang there. I see mills, villages, individual farms; a long, pleasant valley ending in a beautiful, snow-white church tower with a village (Ummendorf) between trees, and above it a series of distant blue mountains, from which Horn, an ancient, recently by the present owners (Kloster Ochsenhausen) newly built Schlößchen shines out. All this makes a prospect over which I forget everything that can make me uncomfortable, and, with this prospect in front of me, I am sitting at a small table and rhyme. "Wieland completed the second part of his novel History in this garden shed of the Agathon "and wrote there the romantic poem" Idris ". The poet, who spent his youth in Biberach and later returned to work as a clerk in municipal services, has written and conceived a large part of his works in Biberach. In 1769 he left his hometown to take up a professorship at the University of Erfurt. Two years later he accepted the invitation of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe Weimar-Eisenach to work as an educator for her two sons in Weimar. His still most famous and cheerful work, the novel »The Abderites«, was written there and was published in 1774 in »Teutschen Merkur«. Many of the experiences of his Biberach period, the poet has processed in this ironic, extremely intellectual novel. (Text: City Biberach an der Riss, Cultural Office)