The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1910 novel)
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Der Zauberlehrling is a novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers
, one of numerous works inspired in various ways by Goethe's poem of the same name
.
Ewers' first book, it was published during 1910, with an English translation appearing in America during 1927.
It introduces the character of Frank Braun, who, like Ewers himself, is a writer, historian, philosopher, and world traveller with a decidedly Nietzschean morality. The story concerns Braun's attempts to manipulate a small cult of Evangelical Christians in a small Italian mountain village for his own financial gain, and the horrific results which ensue.
Braun returned in sequels by Ewers, the 1911 Alraune
where he creates a Frankenstein
-like female Frankenstein
and the 1921 Vampyr where he is transformed into such as a blood-drinking creature
.
It is noteworthy that, though Ewers eventually became attracted to the Nazi Party, Frank Braun is depicted as having a Jewish mistress, Lotte Levi, who is also a patriotic German. This was one of the factors which ended Ewers popularity with the Nazi leadrship.
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself...
, one of numerous works inspired in various ways by Goethe's poem of the same name
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of a poem by Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.-Story:...
.
Ewers' first book, it was published during 1910, with an English translation appearing in America during 1927.
It introduces the character of Frank Braun, who, like Ewers himself, is a writer, historian, philosopher, and world traveller with a decidedly Nietzschean morality. The story concerns Braun's attempts to manipulate a small cult of Evangelical Christians in a small Italian mountain village for his own financial gain, and the horrific results which ensue.
Braun returned in sequels by Ewers, the 1911 Alraune
Alraune
Alraune is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911. It is also the name of the female lead character.-Legend:...
where he creates a Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
-like female Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
and the 1921 Vampyr where he is transformed into such as a blood-drinking creature
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
.
It is noteworthy that, though Ewers eventually became attracted to the Nazi Party, Frank Braun is depicted as having a Jewish mistress, Lotte Levi, who is also a patriotic German. This was one of the factors which ended Ewers popularity with the Nazi leadrship.