Bertha von Arnswaldt
Bertha Freifrau von Arnswaldt , b. Holland (born February 3, 1850 in London , † July 12, 1919 in Berlin ), was a Berlin salonnière .
Live and act
The daughter of Karl Holland and Dorothea geb. Widowed for the third time, Gerson ran a literary salon in Berlin since 1910 . For many Habitués it was considered the most important Berlin salon in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Its specialty was the unusual social diversity of its audience: representatives of the wealthy business class and the Prussian nobility of the capital as well as writers of the beginning modernism found the way to the house of Baroness Arnswaldt at Nollendorfplatz 7. Her sociability was famous for an intensive culture of conversation and debate, which already showed clear features of the 20th century and had little in common with the subtle, rococo style of the past century. The Rathenau family played an important role among the habitués of Frau von Arnswaldt . The bourgeois salon Arnswaldt can be seen as a link between the classic, aristocratic sociability of the imperial era and the late bloom of salon life in the Weimar Republic . Bertha von Arnswaldt was buried in the old 12 apostle cemetery on Kolonnenstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg. The art-historically significant tomb is adorned by an expressionistically conceived marble angel.
She led the unofficial title bestowed Dame or Baroness .
family
Bertha Holland was married three times:
- 1. 1870 Karl Louis Andreae (1839–1878), banker. Three children including:
- Fritz Andreae (1873–1950) ∞ Edith Rathenau , daughter of Emil Rathenau
- 2. 1882 Hermann Giesenberg († 1892), architect. A daughter
- 3. 1894 Hermann von Arnswaldt (1841–1910), member of the Reichstag ( Guelph Party ). Childless
Well-known habitués
See also
swell
- Carl Ludwig Schleich : Sunny past. Memoirs (1859-1919) . Rowohlt, Berlin 1921.
- Oskar AH Schmitz : Ergo sum . G. Müller, Munich 1927.
literature
- Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989. ( limited preview on Google books )
- in the autobiographical works of her granddaughter Ursula von Mangoldt :
- On the threshold between yesterday and tomorrow. Encounters and experiences. Barth, Weilheim 1963.
- Broken lifeline. My way between the times. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 3-451-07850-3 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnswaldt, Bertha von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holland, Bertha; Andreae, Bertha; Giesenberg, Bertha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Berlin Salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |