Eugenie Schumann

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Eugenie Schumann (born December 1, 1851 in Düsseldorf , † September 25, 1938 in Bern ) was a German pianist and author .

Life

The children of the Schumanns in 1854. From left: Ludwig, Marie, Felix, Elise, Ferdinand and Eugenie.

She was one of eight children and the youngest daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann . Eugenie Schumann studied piano with her mother and with Ernst Rudorff in Berlin. Artistically she was in the shadow of her mother all her life.

She temporarily had a love affair with the singer Marie Fillunger , called "Fillu", who from 1878 lived with the Schumanns for a long time. In 1888 it broke and in January 1889 Marie Fillunger left the Schumann house. But both of them continued an intensive correspondence afterwards.

In October 1892 Eugenie Schumann moved to England and worked there as a piano teacher. In 1918 she left England to support her elderly sister Marie, who had lived in Interlaken in Switzerland since 1897 . In 1925 she published her autobiography Memoirs and in 1931 a widely acclaimed biography about her family, which has been translated into several languages.

In 1938 Eugenie Schumann was buried next to Marie Fillunger in the Gsteig cemetery in Wilderswil near Interlaken.

Fonts

  • Memories . J. Engelhorns Nachfahren, Stuttgart 1925. New edition with poems by Felix Schumann as: Clara's children . Dittrich, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-920862-05-8 .
  • Robert Schumann. A picture of my father's life . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1931.
  • Clara Schumann in correspondence with Eugenie Schumann , Volume 1: 1857–1888 , ed. by Christina Siegfried (= Schumann Letter Edition , Series I, Volume 8). Dohr, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86846-010-0 .

literature

  • Eva Rieger (Ed.): With 1000 kisses your Fillu. Letters from the singer Marie Fillunger to Eugenie Schumann 1875–93 . Dittrich, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-920862-42-2 .
  • Eva Rieger, "Your love first showed me what life means". Marie Fillunger (1850-1930) and Eugenie Schumann (1851-1938) . In: Joey Horsley, Luise F. Pusch (Hrsg.): Famous women couples . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-39904-7 , pp. 61-93.
  • Beatrix Borchard: Marie and Eugenie Schumann. In: Katharina Raabe (Ed.): German Sisters: Fourteen biographical portraits. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-300-5 , pp. 173-213.
  • Titus Frazeni [di Alfred Schumann]: Johannes Brahms the father of Felix Schumann: the mystery of love; a very serious parody of Eugenie Schumann's 'memories'. With a foreword by Alfred Schumann and 6 original cuts by Fritz Steinau. Manfred-Verlag, Bielefeld 1926.
  • Moritz von Bredow: rebellious pianist. The life of Grete Sultan between Berlin and New York . Schott, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7957-0800-9 (many references to Clara and Eugenie Schumann and the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Aellen (ed.): Schweizerisches Zeitgenossenlexikon 2nd edition 1932
  2. ^ Janina Klassen: Clara Schumann: Music and Public , Böhlau, Cologne 2009
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Eugenie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and youngest daughter of Clara and Robert Schumann
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1938
Place of death Bern