Charlotte von Kalb
Charlotte Sophie Juliane von Kalb , b. Freiin Marschalk von Ostheim , (born July 25, 1761 in Waltershausen im Grabfeld , † May 12, 1843 in Berlin ) was a German writer .
Life
Charlotte von Kalb was friends or acquainted with the poets Schiller , Goethe , Hölderlin and Jean Paul .
In 1783 she was married to Heinrich von Kalb , an officer in the French German foreign regiment Pfalz-Zweibrücken , whom she did not love. In 1784 she met Friedrich Schiller in Mannheim . When he had to leave Mannheim in 1785, the relationship between the two had already developed into a passionate one. In 1787 a marriage was even considered in Weimar after Schiller had moved there from Dresden because of her . In 1793/94, through Schiller's mediation, Hölderlin became tutor for her son in Waltershausen. She then adored Jean Paul, who designed the character Linda de Romeiro after her in his novel Titan .
In 1804 Charlotte von Kalb lost her entire fortune, in 1806 her husband shot himself, and later her eldest son. Her youngest son did not survive either, only her daughter Edda (1790–1874). From 1820 Charlotte von Kalb lived completely blind in the royal Berlin palace .
Her grave inscription on the Berlin Trinity Churchyard II on Bergmannstrasse reads:
- I was human too, says the dust!
I am also a ghost, says the universe!
The honorary grave of the city of Berlin is located in field B. The gravestone inscription was made legible again in 2011 with, among other things, private donations.
Charlotte von Kalb published almost nothing during her lifetime. Her memoirs, dictated in Berlin, were published after her death under the title Charlotte based on the manuscript , but re-edited by Emil Palleske in 1879 to include a. Eliminate "misleading misprints". Her daughter published other poems and the novel Cornelia (1851), which contains a lot of personal information. In 1882 her letters to Jean Paul and his wife appeared .
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein and the Darmstadt court painter Johann Heinrich Schmidt painted them.
literature
- Ursula Naumann: Charlotte von Kalb. A life story (1761–1843) . Metzler, Stuttgart 1985
- Sabine Schulte: Kalb, Charlotte von, née Freiin Marschall von Ostheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 45 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Herrmann: The farewell. A story about Schiller and Charlotte von Kalb . Weimar 1955
- Ida Boy-Ed: Charlotte von Kalb. A psychological study . Jena 1912, Stuttgart 1920
- Johann Ludwig Klarmann: History of the von Kalb family, with special consideration for Charlotte von Kalb . Erlangen 1902
- Jakob Minor : Kalb, Charlotte von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 11-14.
- Ernst Köpke: Charlotte von Kalb and her relationships with Schiller and Göthe . 1852
- Emil Palleske (Ed.): Charlotte. (For the friends of the eternalized.) Commemorative sheets by Charlotte von Kalb , Stuttgart 1879
Web links
- Literature by and about Charlotte von Kalb in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calf, charlotte of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marschalk von Ostheim, Charlotte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waltershausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1843 |
| Place of death | Berlin |