Theodor Hell

Theodor Hell was the pseudonym of Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler, a court councillor in Dresden from 1824, who was the centre of literary life through his work as editor, translator and critic. He was the theatrical secretary from 1815.
He is mostly remembered for his friendships with the composers Carl Maria von Weber, Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel, Giacomo Meyerbeer — for example, he wrote the words to Schubert's "Das Heimweh" and the libretto for Weber's opera Die Drei Pintos. He was the editor for many years of the literary magazine Penelope, and of the Dresdner Abendzeitung in association with Friedrich Kind. Dresden appointed him honorary citizen in 1851.

Selected works

Lyrical

Das HeimwehIm Englischen Garten bei München

''Des Dichters Los''

Drama

Der Geschädigte

''Der neun und zwanzigste Januar 1819''

Translations

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Julie, or the New Heloise
James Planché: the opera Oberon. Translated from the original English in 1826, after the death of the opera's composer, Carl Maria von Weber.