Education
After he completed his education at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he went to Jena in 1798 to study law and philosophy.
After he completed his education at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he went to Jena in 1798 to study law and philosophy.
He is generally agreed to be the author of the 1804 novel Nachtwachen (Nightwatches) under the pseudonym Bonaventura. As a young boy, Klingemann developed an interest in the theatre which would last his whole life. However, in 1801 he left Jena and returned to Braunschweig, where he became editor of Zeitung für die elegante Welt (Newspaper for the Elegant World).
In 1810 Klingemann married Elise Anschuetz, an actress.
In 1818 he became the director of the Braunschweiger Theatre. Under Klingemann the Braunschweiger theatre soon acquired a good reputation.
lieutenant was here that the first staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (Participant 1) was staged on 19 January 1829. In the same year Klingemann accepted a professorship at his old school, the Collegium Carolinum but only one year later he was once again the director at the theatre.
In 1831 Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann died.
He is buried in the Magni cemetery in Braunschweig. The authorship of Nachtwachen was (and is) disputed. lieutenant has been attributed to, among others, Clemens Brentano, Friedrich Schlegel, Karoline Schelling and Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel.
Jean Paul was of the opinion that Friedrich Schelling was the author, having noticed some similarities with his Gianozzo.
Scholars today, however, are in general agreement that Bonaventura was Klingemann.