Auguste Pattberg

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Auguste Pattberg (born February 24, 1769 in Neunkirchen , † July 4, 1850 in Heidelberg ) was a German collector of songs and sagas as well as a poet.

Life and career

Auguste Pattberg memorial stone from 1929 on the Catholic Church in Neunkirchen
Auguste Pattberg's grave in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery

Auguste was born as the daughter of the forester Engelhard Wilhelm von Kettner from the Electoral Palatinate. At the age of 19 she married the Amtskeller (first administrative and judicial officer) and later court judge Arnold Heinrich Pattberg († 1829) from Neckarelz, who was eight years her senior . The Pattberg family lived in what is now Brother Klaus' educational center for 34 years . In addition to her duties as a wife and mother of seven children, the extraordinarily progressive woman for the time found balance in her cultural and spiritual activities. She collected the songs and legends of her homeland, wrote her own poems and articles for the Badische Wochenschrift and was in lively exchange of ideas with the Heidelberg Romantics, among them Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim . The Des Knaben Wunderhorn collection owes at least 17 folk songs to it, among them the most famous Es ist ein Baum im Odenwald . In 1822 she moved with her husband and daughter to Heidelberg at Hauptstrasse 114, where she spent her old age.

A simple cross made of red sandstone, adorned with a lyre as a symbol of poets and singers, adorns the grave of the romantic in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in section R 59.

Honors

The Auguste-Pattberg-Gymnasium and the Pattberghalle in Neckarelz are named after Auguste Pattberg . A red sandstone memorial plaque was placed in her honor at the Catholic Church in Neunkirchen in 1929.

literature

  • Reinhold Steig : Mrs. Auguste Pattberg b. from Kettner. A contribution to the history of the Heidelberg Romanticism . In: New Heidelberg Yearbooks . 1896, Issue 1, pp. 62–122 ( full text on Wikisource ).
  • Peter Zimber: She collected folk songs from the Odenwald. The life and work of the poet Auguste Pattberg (1769-1850). In: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city . 17, 2013, pp. 205-220.
  • Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof. Cultural history and grave culture. Selected gravesites . Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-924973-45-8 , p. 106 f.

Web links

Commons : Auguste Pattberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Auguste Pattberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Widmaier: There is a tree in the Odenwald (2012). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  2. ↑ Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages . Publishing house regional culture, Ubstadt-Weiher; Heidelberg; Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , p. 102 f.
personal data
SURNAME Pattberg, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pattberg, Elisabetha Auguste; Kettner, Auguste von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collector of songs and sagas and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1850
Place of death Heidelberg