Charlotte Goldfinch

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Charlotte Goldfinch

Charlotte Stieglitz (born June 18, 1806 in Hamburg , † December 29, 1834 in Berlin ) was the wife of the poet Heinrich Stieglitz .

Life

Charlotte was referred to as "Mr." who had moved to Leipzig with the family around 1808 and the Hamburg merchant . Joachim Friedrich Willhöfft's, trading accountant in Leipzig. legitimate youngest daughter “born. She attended the high school there and took singing lessons from the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Christian August Pohlenz . In 1822 she met the later poet Heinrich Stieglitz (1801–1849), who after receiving the Consilium abeundi in Göttingen continued his studies first at the University of Leipzig and from 1824 in Berlin . The engagement time of the two from 1823 to 1828 is documented by the correspondence published by Louis (Ludwig) Curtze between the two later married couples.

The enthusiastic, romantic attitude of both led to disappointments after their marriage on July 20, 1828, considerably exacerbated by a chronic illness of both. In particular, the conflicting personality of the man contributed to the conflict, who as a poet was not really able to build on the initial success in his creative power, on the other hand he was under-challenged and called to something higher, and who increasingly felt his position as curator of the Royal Library in Berlin as a burden. The marriage remained childless. Charlotte came to the inner conviction that her death could bring about the spiritual rebirth of her husband. She stabbed herself with a dagger that she had once given to her husband as a bride when he came home from a concert. This suicide and its suspected motives aroused great sensation in Germany at the time. Charlotte Stieglitz was buried in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde Berlin .

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Charlotte Stieglitz was not a writer . However, her posthumously published letters, diary excerpts and poems also show her to be an accomplished stylist.

Afterlife

Charlotte Stieglitz had a strong influence on the works Moderne Lebenswirren and Madonna by Theodor Mundt during her lifetime . She was the model of the teacher Esperance, the correspondent of Seeliger in the turmoil of life . Her suicide was the instigation for the novel Wally the skeptic of Karl Gutzkow . The playwright Peter Hacks used the subject of Charlotte Stieglitz's suicide in his play Musen . His case was considered exemplary of the development that intellectual life in Germany has taken since the Romantic era .

Sources (chronological)

  • Baptism, marriage and burial registers of the Schönefeld parish 1828–1846. Regional Church Office Dresden, reading point. Film signature 20 K03 2015 0001936.
  • Anonymous (Theodor Mundt): Charlotte Stieglitz, a memorial , Berlin 1835.
  • Letters from Heinrich Stieglitz to his bride Charlotte , a selection from the poet's estate, edited by Louis Curtze. (2 vol.) Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1859.
  • Memories of Charlotte. From Heinrich Stieglitz . Selected from diary sheets and other manuscripts of the deceased and edited by Louis Curtze. Marburg. NG Elwert'sche University Bookstore. 1863.
  • Heinrich Goldfinch. An autobiography . Completed and edited with annotations by L. Curtze. Gotha, published by Friedrich Andreas Perthes. 1865.

literature

  • Georg Brandes : Rahel , Bettina and Charlotte Stieglitz. Three literary historical character pictures from the time of ' young Germany '. Leipzig 1896 ( from page 23, 6th line from the top online  - Internet Archive )
  • Klaus Doderer : Heinrich Stieglitz. In: Journal for German Philology. 74. Vol., 1955. pp. 185-190.
  • Ludwig Geiger : Heinrich and Charlotte Stieglitz. In. LG: poets and women. Lectures and papers. Berlin, 1896.
  • Franz Josef Görtz (Ed.): Charlotte Stieglitz: Poems and letters. Frankfurt / M., 1987.
  • Petra Hartmann : The Rosskur of Charlotte Stieglitz. In: PH: Between the barricade, the Burgtheater and the official pension. Bielefeld, 2009. pp. 9-47.
  • Friedrich Kummer :  Stieglitz, Heinrich Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 177-180. (Description of her and her husband)
  • Susanne Ledanff (Ed.): Charlotte Stieglitz. History of a monument. Frankfurt / M., Berlin, 1986.
  • Werner Leibbrand : The suicide of Charlotte Stieglitz. In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 50, 1934.
  • Wolfgang Promies : The absurd death, or how to make a poet. On the 150th anniversary of Charlotte Stieglitz's death. In: Accents. Journal of Literature. Edited by Michael Kruger. Volume 32, 1985.
  • Lynne Tatlock: Grim Wives 'Tales: Mundt's Stieglitz, Stieglitz' Goethe. In: Monthly books for German teaching, German language and literature. Vol. 82, No. 4, 1990. pp. 467-486.

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personal data
SURNAME Goldfinch, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1834
Place of death Berlin