Asta Heiberg

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Asta Sophie Charlotte Heiberg , b. Countess Baudissin (Knooper Line) (born May 7, 1817 in Greifswald , † January 28, 1904 in Schleswig ) was a German writer .

Life

Asta of Baudissin's parents, Count Christian Karl von Baudissin (1790–1868) and Anna Margarete Henriette Kunniger (1788–1864) came from Saxony , had married in Dresden in 1810 and only moved to Greifswald in 1816. Baudissin was born here as the fifth of 13 children; Writer Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin was her grandmother. Her siblings Wolf (1812–1887), Thekla , Ulrich (1816–1893) and Adelbert were active as authors like them.

As the eldest daughter and two older sisters died early, Baudissin had to take on responsibility within the family at an early age. She was regarded as her mother's “mainstay” and looked after her siblings. When the family got into economic difficulties, they moved from the Greifswalder Gut first to Horsens and later to Rendsburg . In 1833, when Baudissin was 17 years old, the family finally settled in Schleswig. While her brothers attended high school, Baudissin received her education through private lessons from her father; She took confirmation lessons from Claus Harms and continued her education by reading.

On September 17, 1835, Asta von Baudissin married the writer and lawyer Carl Friedrich Heiberg (1796–1872) in Schleswig . “They founded the Heiberg family dynasty, which was to produce numerous important personalities in the period that followed.” Together they moved into the house in Schleswig at present-day Stadtweg 39, which Heiberg lived until her death.

Through her husband she came into contact with the Schleswig-Holstein movement, which campaigned for Schleswig-Holstein to break away from Denmark . In his patriotic pamphlet Vom Verrathene Brudererstamme , Gustav Rasch defended Heiberg's husband, who had come into conflict with the national circles, and wrote about her: “And does anyone know a better and more energetic woman from Schleswig-Holstein than his wife, Countess Asta Baudissin? For me she is the first among the women in Schleswig-Holstein. ”Son Hermann Heiberg was born in 1840. He was later successful as a writer and dedicated the work An elegant woman , published in 1886, to “his dear mother” . The marriage resulted in a total of three sons and one daughter. After the death of her husband in 1872, Asta Heiberg lived for many years with her son, the Schleswig mayor Julius Heiberg .

In 1853 Asta Heiberg moved to Dresden , where she lived for several years. During this time she came together with the literary circle around Ludwig Tieck . She also cultivated relationships with the noble von Pogwisch family, to which Ottilie von Goethe and Ulrike von Pogwisch also belonged, and associated with the grandchildren of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Asta Heiberg began writing after her husband's death in 1872. The story The Straight Path appeared in Dr. L. Meyn's Schleswig-Holstein house calendar . Her memoir, Memoirs from My Life , "written in a peculiarly erratic style" in 1897, became extremely popular . The book was initially published privately, but it was sold out so quickly that it was reprinted by the renowned publisher Carl Heymann. Heiberg dedicated her memoir to her late husband. In memories from my life , she describes “the political and social conditions in Schleswig-Holstein in the 19th century”, gives insights into her life and paints a picture of popular personalities of her time.

Asta Heiberg died in 1904 at the age of 86 and was buried in the cathedral cemetery in Schleswig with great sympathy from the population.

Works

  • 1882: The Straight Path (story). In: Dr. L. Meyn's Schleswig-Holstein house calendar
  • 1897: memories from my life . (Memoirs). 2nd Edition. Heymanns, Berlin 1897. X p., 1 sheet, 271 p.

literature

  • Silke Bromm-Krieger: Schleswig's forgotten daughters. A search for clues . Boyens, Heide 2004, ISBN 3-8042-1136-4 , pp. 20-41.
  • Heiberg, Asta . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 122.
  • Heiberg, Asta . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 324 ( digitized version ).
  • Heiberg, Mrs. Asta . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 515 ( digitized version ).
  • Bernd Philipsen: Asta Heiberg. Later fame as a memoir writer . In: Schleswiger Nachrichten, June 9, 2010.
  • Achelis, Thomas Otto: From Asta Heiberg's youth, in: Yearbook of the Angler Heimatverein Vol. 25 (1961) pp. 84–86.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She is not identical with Asta Countess Baudissin (* 1888), the author of the work Auch ein Menschenschicksal .
  2. ↑ Sabine Schreiner: Language learning in the life stories of Goethe's time. ludicium 1992, p. 234.
  3. ^ Claus Harms: Selected writings and sermons. Volume 1 . C. Wolff, 1955, p. 113.
  4. ↑ Eduard Alberti (ed.): Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 . Maack, Kiel 1867, p. 339.
  5. ↑ a b See article by Philipsen.
  6. ↑ Gustav Rasch: From the betrayed brother tribe. The Schleswig-Holstein war in 1864 . 1st volume. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1864, p. 99.
  7. ^ Julius Elias, Max Osborn, Wilhelm Fabian: Annual reports for modern German literary history . Göschen 1902, p. XXVI.
personal data
SURNAME Heiberg, Asta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Asta von (maiden name); Heiberg, Asta Sophie Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1904
Place of death Schleswig