Caroline de la Motte Fouqué
Caroline Philippine von Briest , better known as Caroline Philippine de la Motte Fouqué (* 7. October 1773 in Berlin , † 20 July 1831 on Good Nennhausen in Rathenow ) was a German writer of romance .
Live and act
Caroline von Briest was the only child of the Brandenburg landowner Philipp von Briest (* October 3, 1749 - January 7, 1822) and his first wife Caroline, born von Zinnow (* July 18, 1752; † March 7, 1800). She grew up at Nennhausen Castle near Rathenow in the Mark Brandenburg , received private lessons and had a French governess .
On December 20, 1791 she was married to the officer and canon Friedrich Ehrenreich Adolf Ludwig Rochus von Rochow (1770–1799), the marriage failed. Before the divorce, her husband shot himself for gambling debts. On January 9, 1803, she married the divorced writer Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843), a son of Heinrich August Karl Baron de la Motte Fouqué and Marie Luise von Schlegell. Later life took place between Nennhausen and Berlin. She took part in court life and also ran a literary salon there .
During the summer months, the Nennhausen estate became an intellectual center that was visited by numerous noble and bourgeois writers, including Adelbert von Chamisso , Joseph von Eichendorff , Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , Rahel Levin-Varnhagen von Ense , August Wilhelm Schlegel and ETA Hoffmann . Madame de la Motte Fouque wrote novels , short stories , novels and other writings. In 1812 and 1813, she and Amalie von Hellwig published two volumes of a paperback of sagas and legends .
Caroline Philippine de la Motte Fouqué died on August 21, 1831 in Nennhausen and was buried in the park of the castle. Caroline de la Motte Fouqué shared the fate of her husband to have outlived her own fame.
Caroline de la Motte Fouqué is a great-great-granddaughter of District Administrator Jakob Friedrich von Briest (1631–1703), of whom it is said in Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest that he was the Briest "who carried out the attack on Rathenow the day before the Battle of Fehrbellin " . In the walks through the Mark Brandenburg , volume Das Oderland , Fontane refers in the chapter "Das Pfulenland " to Wilkendorf Castle, built by her grandson Gustav von Pfuel , and the portraits of the "old, now extinct Briest family". Fontane expressly refers to Nennhausen and the military services that the district administrator of Briest "on Nennhausen im Havelland" provided the Great Elector before he was enfeoffed with the estate.
See also: Effi Briest as a member of the real von Briest family
progeny
The marriage with the landowner Friedrich von Rochow, which according to all reports turned out to be unhappy, resulted in three children:
- Gustav (1792–1847), Prussian minister
- Theodor (1794–1854), Prussian lieutenant general and envoy to Saint Petersburg ∞ Mathilde Elisabeth Countess von Wartensleben (1798–1874), a sister of Gustav von Wartensleben
- Klara (1796–1865), the father is in all probability supposed to be Count von Lehndorff ∞ Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel .
The marriage with the writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué went according to all reports harmoniously; the daughter Marie Luise Caroline (1803–1864) emerged from her.
Name in different phases of life
- 1773–1791 Caroline Philippine von Briest
- 1791–1803 Caroline Philippine von Rochow; widow since 1799
- 1803–1831 Caroline Philippine Baroness de la Motte Fouqué
Works
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Correspondence
- Leaves publicly in the world , Caroline de la Motte Fouqué and Sophie Tieck -Bernhardi-von Knorring, Wolfgang de Bruyn / Barbara Gribnitz (eds.), Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2011 ISBN 978-3-86525-195-4
literature
- Petra Kabus (Ed.): Caroline de la Motte Fouqué: Selected works. Emphasis. Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2003–2005, ISBN 3-487-10975-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline de la Motte Fouqué in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Caroline de la Motte Fouqué in the German Digital Library
- Works by Caroline de la Motte Fouqué at Zeno.org .
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
- Caroline de la Motte Fouqué: Edition of the works and writings
- Fouque Society
- Nennhausen Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of Caroline de la Motte Fouqués ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Short biography of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqués ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest. Eighth chapter
- ^ Edmunds ways and wrong ways in the Google book search
- ↑ on Wikimedia Commons
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SURNAME | Fouqué, Caroline de la Motte |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Briest, Caroline Philippine from; Fouqué, Caroline Philippine de la Motte (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1773 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1831 |
Place of death | on Gut Nennhausen near Rathenow |