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Name
  
Sebastian Sailer

Role
  
Writer

Sebastian Sailer
Died
  
March 7, 1777, Obermarchtal, Germany

Sebastian Sailer (12 February 1714 in Weisenhorn – 7 March 1777 in Obermarchtal), born Johann Valentin Sailer, was a German Premonstratensian Baroque preacher and writer. He is especially known for his comedies written in Swabian German.

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Works written in dialect

Sailer's Swabian dialect is that of his hometown Weisenhorn (in what is now Bavarian Swabia) with influences by the hefty rural dialect of his Upper Swabian parishes.

  • Schopfung der ersten Menschen, der Sundenfall und dessen Strafe (Creation of the First Men, the Fall of Mankind and its Punishment, commonly referred to as Die Schwabische Schopfung, i. e. The Swabian Creation), musical comedy, 1743
  • Der Fall Luzifers (The Fall of Lucifer), musical comedy, after 1738
  • Die sieben Schwaben, oder: Die Hasenjagd (The Seven Swabians, or The Hunting of the Hare), comedy, c. 1756
  • Beste Gesinnungen Schwabischer Herzen (Best Dispositions of Swabian Hearts), cantata, 1770
  • Die Schultheisenwahl zu Limmelsdorf (The Mayoral Election at Limmelsdorf), play, 1770
  • Die schwabischen heiligen drei Konige (The Swabian Three Magi), comedy, 1771
  • Bauernhochzeit (Peasant Wedding), ballad
  • Peter als Gott Vater (Peter as God the Father), ballad
  • various occasional musical comedies containing Latin, standard German and dialect passages

    • Theological and historical works

  • Vier Sendschreiben wider H. P. Aug. Dornbluth (Four Epistles against H. P. Aug. Dornbluth), published under the pseudonym Benastasii Liares, 1755-1756
  • Das Marianische Orakel (The Marian Oracle), meditations, 1763
  • Kempensis Marianus, Latin meditations, 1764
  • Geistliche Reden (Theological Speeches), three volumes, 1766-1770
  • Das jubilierende Marchtall (Jubilant Marchtal), a history of the monastery of Obermarchtal, 1771
  • Geistliche Schaubuhne („Spiritual Playhouse“), texts for oratorios, 1774

    • References

    Sebastian Sailer Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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