Caroline de la Motte Fouqué

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Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, around 1800

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 .

Nennhausen Castle (after the neo-Gothic redesign of 1859/60)

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:

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

  • 1806 Three fairy tales . Berlin, Wittich, (under pseud. 'Serena')
  • 1807 Rodrich . A novel in two parts.
  • 1810 Falkenstein's wife . A novel in two volumes. Berlin, Hitzig (1st volume as digitized and full text in the German Text Archive ; 2nd volume as digitalized and full text in the German Text Archive )
  • 1811 letters about the purpose and direction of female education . A Christmas present. (also under the title: Pocket book for thinking women for 1811 )
  • 1812 magic of nature . A revolutionary story. In: Small library of novels by and for women. Berlin, Ferdinand Dümmler ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • 1812 letters on Greek mythology for women
  • 1813 call to the German women
  • 1813 (co-author): Dramatic poems for Germans . (also under the title: New Patriotic Drama )
  • 1814 Feodora . Novel in three volumes.
  • 1814 On German sociability in response to the judgment of Frau von Staël . Berlin, Wittich ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • 1814 The Spaniards and the volunteer in Paris . A story from the holy war.
  • 1815 Edmunds ways and wrong ways . A novel from the immediate past, in three volumes.
  • 1816 The hero girl from the Vendée . Novel in two volumes.
  • 1817 New stories
  • 1818 love of women . A novel in three books
  • 1818 The earliest history of the Eelt . A gift for children, in three volumes
  • 1820 Ida . Novel in three volumes
  • 1820 Lodoiska and her daughter . Novel in three volumes
  • 1821 The blind leader . novel
  • 1821 Heinrich and Marie . Novel in three volumes
  • 1822 letters about Berlin in the winter of 1821
  • 1822 past and present . A novel in a collection of letters
  • 1822 The Duchess of Montmorency . Novel in three volumes
  • 1823 The displaced . A novella from the time of Queen Elizabeth of England, in three volumes
  • 1824 Latest collected stories . Two volumes. Berlin, Schlesinger, (including: The duel. The three wanderers. The last of the paleologists. Ottile. The Maltese)
  • 1824 The two friends . In three volumes
  • 1825 Bodo von Hohenried
  • 1826 Women in the big world . Educational book on entering social life. Berlin, Schlesinger ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • 1829 resignation. Novel . Frankfurt a. M., 1829

Correspondence

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Caroline de la Motte-Fouqué  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fouque-gesellschaft.de
  2. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fouque-gesellschaft.de
  3. ^ Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest. Eighth chapter
  4. ^ Edmunds ways and wrong ways in the Google book search
  5. on Wikimedia Commons