Season 11 · 17 Feb 2023Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war- 17:53PhaétonHölderlin's first biographer, somewhat ridiculous but valuable; he sees in these pages the wandering of a deranged mind.
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Wilhelm Waiblinger (German: ; 21 November 1804 – 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with Friedrich Hölderlin. After he had attended Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart, he was a student at the seminary of Tübingen in the 1820s, when Hölderlin, already mentally ill, lived there as a recluse in a carpenter's house. Waiblinger, who used to visit the older poet and take him out for walks, left an account of Hölderlin's life then, Hölderlins Leben, Dichtung und Wahnsinn ("Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness"). […]
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