Emilie von Binzer

Emilie von Binzer

Emilie von Binzer , née Emilie Henriette Adelheid von Gerschau , pseudonym Ernst Ritter (born April 6, 1801 in Berlin , † February 9, 1891 in Munich ) was a noble writer.

origin

Her parents were Peter Freiherr von Gerschau (born October 15, 1779 in Behnen in Courland; † May 5, 1852 in Copenhagen ) an illegitimate son of Duke Peter von Biron of Courland and the Russian consul general in Copenhagen and Henriette Friederike Caroline Schmidt (born April 10, 1852 ) 1779 - † October 20, 1848 in Copenhagen ). Emilie was raised at the court of her aunt, Duchess Wilhelmine von Sagan , and received the best possible upbringing and education there.

Life

In 1822 she met August Daniel von Binzer , who had accepted an invitation from her aunt to a literary and musical event in the castle. After their wedding in the same year, the couple lived in Venice, Cologne, Leipzig (where August Daniel von Binzer worked as an editor for the “Zeitung für die Elegante Welt”), briefly in Augsburg and finally in 1845 the family moved to Vienna. As in Leipzig before, the lady of the house ran a Biedermeier salon in which artists, writers and politicians came and went.

The couple, friends of Freiherr von Zedlitz , decided to build a house together on an Austrian Alpine lake. The choice fell on Altaussee , where construction of the “Seehaus” (later “Parkhotel”) began in 1847. In 1848, the Adalbert Stifter couple followed to Linz , where they lived in the corner house Promenade - Klammstrasse in winter, but lived in Altaussee in summer. Your salon became the meeting point for Linz society and upscale Viennese guests.

Emilie von Binzer wrote some works that were also performed at the Burgtheater and assisted Archduke Maximilian with literary advice. He visited her shortly before he left for Mexico and she received a suicide note after his execution.

Emilie von Binzer looked after Baron von Zedlitz during his last illness, from which he died in 1862. After her husband and Adalbert Stifter died in 1868, she moved to one of her sons in Munich, where she died at the age of 90.

children

The couple had five children within the first seven years of their marriage: Klara in Flensburg in 1823 (later married Enno von Colomb ), Karl Heinrich Friedrich in 1824 and Marie in Glücksburg in 1825, August 1827 and Alexandrine in Kiel in 1829.

Works

• The juggler . Drama in 5 Acts (around 1846)
• Characters . Stories. Herzabek, Prague 1855
• Karoline Neuber, a life picture from the previous century . Wallishausser, Vienna undated
• Three summers in Löbichau 1819–21 . Speemann, Stuttgart 1877

Honors

• In 1982 the Binzerweg in Linz was named after her, a dead end street running north from Thürheimerstraße.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Knight, Ernst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Josef Buchowiecki: Adalbert Stifter in the correspondence between Emilie Freifrau von Binzer and her friends. In: Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria. Quarterly. 8, 1959, ISSN  0001-799X , pp. 35-40.
• Traute Pistulka: Emilie von Binzer. Life and work. Graz 1967 (Graz, Univ., Diss., 1967).
• Traute Zacharasiewicz: Late summer of the Biedermeier, Emilie von Binzer. A friend of Adalbert Stifter . Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria, Linz 1983, ISBN 3-900424-02-0 ( series of publications by the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria 33).

Web links

• CV with picture ( Memento from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• biography
• History of Upper Austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Erbe : Wilhelmine von Sagan (1781−1839). In: Joachim Bahlcke (Ed.): Schlesische Lebensbilder , Volume 9. Insingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7686-3506-6 , p. 236.
2. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 33