Caroline Louise von Klencke

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Caroline Louise von Klencke, painting by Johann Christoph Frisch , 1786, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Caroline Louise von Klencke (born June 21, 1754 in Fraustadt in South Prussia, † 1802 in Berlin ) was a German poet.

Life

Caroline Louise von Klencke was born as Caroline Louise Karsch. Her mother was the poet Anna Louisa Karsch . At the age of nine, she was given into foreign care by her mother, who had separated from her father. After returning to Anna Louise Karsch five years later, she was married to her half-brother or step-brother Hempel. She became a mother for the first time at the age of 16. The marriage ended in divorce after ten years. At the age of 28, she remarried in 1782, this time to 22-year-old Carl Friedrich von Klencke. The daughter Wilhelmine, later known as a writer under the name Helmina von Chézy , emerged from the connection. Caroline Louise von Klencke was left by her second husband. When he later asked for the relationship to be resumed, she refused to respond. She moved to her mother's house in Berlin, where she died lonely and ill in 1802.

Works

The poet's patrons were Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , who published a volume of their works in 1788 and published further works by Caroline Louise von Klencke in a private print in 1802 in memory of the poet. This was preceded by two occasional prints from Maurer, Berlin from 1786 ( On the death of the king: To the Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and To the heavenly transfigured mother of our dearest King Friedrich Wilhelm II: On the highest birthday, in the name of his people ). A drama with the title Der Ehrliche Schweizer (published by Decker in Berlin in 1776; 108 pages) was performed 27 times in Berlin. She published her mother's biography in 1792. This source on Anna Louise Karsch's life is viewed rather critically today. In 1805, her daughter published the collection of life and romantic poems by the daughter of Karschin (502 pages) at Wilmans in Frankfurt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klencke, Caroline Louise von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 433 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ This source probably incorrectly cites September 21, 1812 .
  3. ↑ http://www.antiquariat-trauoppel.de/medien/1095436483_erg134.pdf
  4. ↑ Uta Schaffers, I look down on survived misery , Wallstein 1997, ISBN 978-3-89244-261-5 , p. 114 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Klencke, Caroline Louise from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klenke, Caroline Louise from; Klencke, Karoline Luise von; Klenke, Karoline Luise von; Karsch, Caroline Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Woman city
DATE OF DEATH 1802
Place of death Berlin