Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist

Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist

Title page from Komischer Anhang zum Titan
Author	Jean Paul
Original title	Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch
Translator	David Dollenmayer
Language	German
Publisher	Karl Matzdorff
Publication date	1801
Publication place	Prussia
Pages	180

Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist (German : Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch) is an 1801 novel by the German writer Jean Paul. It is written as the logbook of a nobleman who does experimental flights with a hot air balloon and makes stops in various European towns. ^{[1] [2] [3]} It has an introduction and footnotes by its fictional editor Leibgeber, who also appears in Jean Paul's novels Siebenkäs and Titan . The novel first appeared in volume two of Komischer Anhang zum Titan (lit. 'Comical Appendix to Titan'), published by Karl Matzdorff in Berlin. ^[1]

The story was inspired by the ballooning experiments of the 1780s. Jean Paul was fascinated by the subject as a symbol for how fantasy can cross over into reality, the overcoming of limits, having a panoramic outlook, and an ethereal sense of freedom. ^[1] The scholar Jochen Golz  [ de ] has analyzed Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist as a satirical panorama of the contradictions of its time, with conflicting political forces and intellectual currents following the ascent of the bourgeoisie in Europe. ^[4]

See also

• History of ballooning

References

1. Luckscheiter, Roman (2020). "Jean Paul: Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch". In Arnold, H.L. (ed.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_6971-1.
2. Maurer, Kathrin (2021). "Ballooning as a Technology of Seeing in Jean Paul's 'Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch' (1801)". Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 17–38. ISBN   9783110696448.
3. Theilen, Ines (2014). "Über Den Wolken. Die Kartographie Der Atmosphäre in Jean Pauls „Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch"". Zeitschrift für Germanistik  [ de ] (in German). 24 (2): 256–266. JSTOR   23978629.
4. Golz, Jochen (1996). "»Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch« als satirisches Panorama der Gegenwart". Welt und Gegen-Welt in Jean Pauls »Titan«. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. pp. 45–100. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-03574-5_3.

External links

• Projekt Gutenberg-DE
• Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch in Komischer Anhang zum Titan (vol. 2, pp. 37–216) via Munich Digitization Center
• Sublunary Editions
• Suhrkamp Insel