Engel, Johann Jakob, Berliner Aufklärer, writer, playwright, aesthetician, theorist of acting and co-director of the Nationaltheater in Berlin (1741-1802). Eigh. Letter m. U. "J. J. Angels. 4 p. Doppelblatt. 4to. Parchim 6.III.1772. Extensive, almost familial letter to Johann Friedrich Bause (1738-1814) in Leipzig, who is his friend. After wordy excuses for too rare correspondence, Engel writes: "... For all the rest, however, what I could write to you, you would know only bad thanks to me; for everything here is foreign to you; I know nothing to tell you about your art, and of my own you probably ask nothing to hear. It already disgusts me; for it is a meager, a broodless art: philosophy and beautiful sciences ... So I could at most have written from the Teltower Rübchen, which my dear friends Bausen bey ordered to me and unfortunately did not get!. The fault is certainly not for me, dearest friend, but for the turnips themselves, that they do not want to grow and prosper. It was my first thing I bey the Mad. Nicolai said in Berlin: that a woman just as kind and kind as she was herself - I flattered her quite certainly a little, but bey the women's rooms you don't count that as a sin ...". In addition, there is much more about both families, the visit of Engel's son to Bauses, and others. Order an "obedient Compliment to Mr. Oeser" and other Leipzig acquaintances. - Here: Dersame. Eigh. ==References== 2 S. Gr. 4to. O. O. (probably around 1790). - Untitled, extensive congratulations poem by Engels on the birthday of his friend Johann Friedrich Buse, at the end with the Latin dedication "Amico suo delectissimo J F Bausio". On 58 lines (one with text change) he deals with all possible aspects of happiness and congratulations and also mentions the city of Leipzig: "... Hail this muse seat! Salvation of this trading city! / And to carry it out a little more, / So must those who govern our state, / Thus must those that teach and studir, / so must further those who negociire here, / who are missing here - the breath, they must all lead; - / They must all, large and small, / On judge's chairs, on catheders, / With swords, instruments, feathers, / They all must be glowing ...". In the end, he comes to his special and favorite area of speaking to the theater: "... Now at the end I will, you can easily measure that, / Do not forget the good stage. / When at five o'clock in the evening you master enough studs, / You judge gnug the thief examinant, / you aerzte gnugg the matte pulse questioned / And yet the illness does not go away; / If the bride now karessirt enough bridal gnugh addirt, / In the comtoir of the merchant gnuga, / And briefly, if everyone now his pensum absolvirt: / So - yes, I also wish for this from the bottom of my souls, / So on the whole boredom must torment us! / But we, who are willing to disperse the art of acting / The boredom, / We must never miss the connoisseur Beyfall." - Minimal cracks on the manuscript. - Not in the J. J. Angel-letter edition by Alexander Košenina (1992).