Elise von Hohenhausen (1812–1899)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elise von Hohenhausen. Painting by Johann Joseph Sprick , 1840

Elise Friedrike Felicitas Freiin von Hohenhausen , married Rüdiger (born March 7, 1812 in Eschwege , † January 31, 1899 in Berlin ), was a German writer and salonnière in Münster and Berlin.

Life

Elise Freiin von Hohenhausen grew up as the daughter of the Prussian civil servant Leopold Freiherr von Hohenhausen (1779–1848) and his wife, the writer and Salonnière Elise von Hohenhausen (1789–1857), née. von Ochs, in Berlin . After the family moved to Minden , where the father held a post in the Prussian provincial government, she already worked as a young woman in the editorial team of the Mindener Sonntagsblatt , which her father had co-founded.

Married to the Prussian civil servant Karl Ferdinand Rüdiger at the age of nineteen, she spent the years 1831 to 1845 in Münster , where she first appeared as a salonnière. The literary circle she initiated included Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Levin Schücking . From then on, she became close friends with von Droste-Hülshoff, witnessed the German Revolution of 1848/49 in Minden and took part in the political life of her husband, who was elected to the Prussian National Assembly and helped found the Kreuzzeitung . Together with her now widowed mother, she visited Heinrich Heine during a stay in Paris in 1852 .

After the death of her mother (1857) and her husband (1862), Elise took on her maiden name again and moved from Frankfurt (Oder) , her last place of work, to Berlin, where she ran a literary salon until her death . In addition, she began to write books herself and gained some notoriety since 1870.

Elise von Hohenhausen died in Berlin at the age of 86. Her burial took place on February 3, 1899 in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg (today Westend ) in the closest circle of relatives and friends. The grave has not been preserved.

salon

Elise von Hohenhausen's salon was predominantly literary. When it was founded, the hostess took on many habitués that had previously belonged to the circle around Ada von Treskow (1840–1918), who had just left Berlin at the time. In terms of his stylistic orientation, he belonged more to the tradition of Biedermeier tranquility than to the modern cosmopolitanism that was embodied in the salons of Marie von Schleinitz and Marie von Radziwiłł at the same time in Berlin . It is all the more remarkable that Elise continued this tradition up to the threshold of the 20th century , when Friedrich Wilhelm IV's romantic Berlin had long since become a cosmopolitan city. Nonetheless, widowed at the age of fifty, she remained a highly regarded social figure to the end and was often sought out for her diverse literary memories. Prince George of Prussia , who emerged as a writer, also belonged to her circle .

family

Elise Freiin von Hohenhausen married the royal Prussian senior government councilor Karl Ferdinand Rüdiger (1800–1862) in 1831. The couple had no children. Elise took on her niece Helene von Düring-Oetken (1841-1931), who later also worked as a writer under the pseudonym "Arthur von Loy", as a foster daughter.

Famous habitués

Works

  • Famous lovers , Leipzig 1870–1884, 4 episodes.
  • Beautiful spirits and beautiful souls or monuments to the friendship of famous men and women , Leipzig 1873.
  • The novel of life . Novellas. 2 volumes, 1876.
  • Breviary of Good Society , 1876.
  • Romantic Biographies from History , 1878.
  • The fine young lady , around 1880.
  • From Goethe's heart life. Truthful Representations , 1884.

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia
  • Annelinde Esche: Elise Rüdiger, b. from Hohenhausen. A picture of their life and work. Cologne / New York 1992 (also dissertation: University of Münster).
  • Fritz Hackenberg: Elise von Hohenhausen. A Westphalian poet and translator. Cologne / New York 1992 (reproduction from 1913/15; also dissertation: University of Münster 1913)
  • Markus Hänsel: Elise von Hohenhausen 1789–1857. Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1989, pp. 274-81, 345-48, 531-533, 820-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Tageblatt , February 4, 1899, morning edition.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenhausen, Elise von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüdiger, Elise (married name); Hohenhausen, Elise Friedrike Felicitas Freiin von (full name); Hohenhausen, F. von (pseudonym); Hohenhausen, E. von (pseudonym); Hohenhausen, Elise Friedrike Felicitas von (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salonière
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1899
Place of death Berlin