Catharina Margarethe Dorbencker

Catharina Margarethe Dorbencker (born November 14, 1649 in Hof , † December 11, 1683 in Kulmbach ) was a poet in the Pegnese Flower Order .

life and work

As the daughter of the Brandenburg-Bayreuth court councilor Johann Friedrich Schweser and the pastor's daughter Margaretha geb. Pertsch from Wunsiedel, Catharina Margarethe Schweser grew up in a culturally open-minded family. The father Johann Friedrich Schweser and the brother Christoph Heinrich Schweser were both active as authors. From an early age, the woman was enthusiastic about music and poetry. In the summer of 1668 she was accepted into the Pegnesian Flower Order , the Nuremberg Language and Literature Society, together with several other women from Sigmund von Birken . Her shepherd's name was Silvia. In 1674 she married the Brandenburg-Bayreuth Chamber Councilor Johann Baptist Dorbencker, with whom she first lived in Bayreuth and later moved to Kulmbach. During her marriage to Dorbencker she was active in the arts (painting and copperplate engraving). Nothing of these works has survived. At first she was in close correspondence with the President of the Flower Order. Catharina Margarethe Dorbencker died in Kulmbach in 1683. Only a few printed poems by her, mostly occasional poems in communal writings of the Pegnitzschäfer, have survived. She contributed dedicatory verses to both Birkens Guelfis (1669) and Maria Catharina Stockfleth's novel "The Macarie" (1669). Most of the poems she has received can be found in Schuster's anthology Die Pegnitz-Schäferinnen (pp. 145–196), including a lyrical, letter-based dialogue with Maria Catharina Stockfleth. An extensive shepherd poem was edited by Joachim Kröll in 1979.

literature

• Joachim Kröll: The honor of the mountains and the high forests: Catharina Margaretha Dorbencker geb. Sister In: Daphnis. 7: 282-393 (1979)
• Renate Jürgensen: Utile cum dulci. The heyday of the Pegnesian Flower Order in Nuremberg from 1644 to 1744. Wiesbaden 1994
• Renate Jürgensen: Melos conspirant singuli in unum. Repertorium bio-bibliographicum on the history of the Pegnese Order of Flowers in Nuremberg (1644-1744). Wiesbaden 2006
• Klaus Knothe: Dorilis and Silvia from the Pegnesian Flower Order. Contributions to the life of the Upper Franconian poets Maria Catharina Stockfleth and Catharina Margarethe Dorbencker. In: Miscellanea curiensia VIII, Hof 2009, pp. 39–87.
• Ralf Schuster (Ed.): The Pegnitz Shepherdesses. An anthology. Passau 2009. (Chapter 5, Catharina Margaretha Schweser / Silvia , pp. 145–180 and Chapter 6, The lyrical letter dialogue between Dorilis and Silvia on the occasion of Silvia's acceptance into the Order of Flowers . Pp. 181–196)

Web links

• Publications by and about Catharina Margarethe Dorbencker in VD 17 .