Johanne Friederike Lohmann

Johanne Friederike Lohmann , née Johanne Friederike Ritter , first marriage to Johanne Friederike Häbler (born March 25, 1749 in Wittenberg ; † December 21, 1811 in Leipzig ) was a German writer.

Life

The author was born as the daughter of the Wittenberg librarian, lawyer and professor Johann Daniel Ritter . She received her lessons from him and after his death from her mother. After their death, in turn, she looked after her younger siblings. She began writing attempts in her youth and corresponded with Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Christian Gottlob Heyne , among others . Her first marriage was the excise commissioner (tax officer) Häbler in Zwickau / Dippoldiswalde .

This marriage was probably rather unhappy and the husband managed the family's fortune and eventually disappeared without being found. After ten years the marriage ended in divorce. Johanne Friederike moved with her three children to a younger sister in Magdeburg . There she met her second husband, the Prussian auditor L. from Schönebeck , with whom she spent six years in Schönebeck. During this time, three more children joined the family. After the death of her second husband, through the bankruptcy of her brother-in-law, she lost the considerable fortune inherited from her second husband and now moved with her children to her brother-in-law Dr. Otto Erhardt to Leipzig .

Here she began primarily to write historical novels, stories and sketches as well as poems in order to guarantee her existence and that of her children. Three of her children died while she was still alive. The daughter Emilie Friederike Sophie Lohmann (born May 29, 1783 in Schönebeck; † September 15, 1830 in Leipzig), who came from the second marriage, published stories after the death of her mother, which are said to come from her estate. However, this was already called into question when the works were published.

Works

• The Blind Harper , A Play in Four Acts. Adapted for the theater according to Veit Weber's legends of the past. 1791
• Jacobine. T. , A story from the time of the Bavarian Successionskriege. Leipzig, 1794
• Clare von Wallburg , by the author of the Jakobine, Leipzig, 1796
• The quarry , a story. From Vf. Der Jacobine, Neuruppin, 1797
• Consecrations of the Muse, or The Mistakes of Domestic Life (4 vols.), 1797–1798
• Marie or the secrets of the vineyard hut , by the author of the Jacobine Clara Wallburg and Claudine Lahn, Zerbst, 1806
• History of two women from the Blankenau house , by d. Author d. Clara Walburg, Claudine Lahn, Magdeburg, 1811
• Autumn flowers of my spirit , by the author of Clara Wallburg and Claudine Lahn, Magdeburg, 1810
• The decision at Hochkirch . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 5. 2nd edition Berlin, [1910], pp. 63-137. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
• Complete stories , last edition (18 vols.), 1844

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel : The German women writers of the nineteenth century. Volume 1. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1823. pp. 352–358. ( Digitized version )
• Lohmann, Johanne Friederike , in: Damen Conversations Lexikon . Volume 6. 1834, p. 393 f.
• Heinrich Gross: Germany's female poets and writers. A literary-historical sketch. C. Gerold's Sohn, Vienna, 1882, 2nd ed.
• Lohmann, Johanna Friederike . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 517 ( digitized version ).