Sebastian Sailer
Sebastian Sailer, born Johann Valentin Sailer, was a German Premonstratensian Baroque preacher and writer. He is especially known for his comedies written in Swabian German.
Writings
Works written in dialect
Sailer's Swabian dialect is that of his hometown Weißenhorn with influences by the hefty rural dialect of his Upper Swabian parishes.- Schöpfung der ersten Menschen, der Sündenfall und dessen Strafe, musical comedy, 1743
- Der Fall Luzifers, musical comedy, after 1738
- Die sieben Schwaben, oder: Die Hasenjagd, comedy,
- Beste Gesinnungen Schwäbischer Herzen, cantata, 1770
- Die Schultheißenwahl zu Limmelsdorf, play, 1770
- Die schwäbischen heiligen drei Könige, comedy, 1771
- Bauernhochzeit, ballad
- Peter als Gott Vater, ballad
- various occasional musical comedies containing Latin, standard German and dialect passages
Theological and historical works
- Vier Sendschreiben wider H. P. Aug. Dornblüth, published under the pseudonym Benastasii Liares, 1755-1756
- Das Marianische Orakel, meditations, 1763
- Kempensis Marianus, Latin meditations, 1764
- Geistliche Reden, three volumes, 1766-1770
- Das jubilierende Marchtall, a history of the monastery of Obermarchtal, 1771
- Geistliche Schaubühne, texts for oratorios, 1774