Friederike Serre

Friederike Serre , née Hammerdörfer (born April 28, 1800 in Dresden ; † August 7, 1872, ibid) hosted artists in Maxen . She was the wife of the co-founder of the German Schiller Foundation, Major Friedrich Anton Serre auf Maxen.

Grave of Friederike and Johann Friedrich Anton Serre in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Life

With her bored Clara Schumann , Ottilie von Goethe , Elfriede of Miihlenfels , and Elisa von der Recke . In 1839 Robert Schumann wrote his arabesque and dedicated it to it, as did his "Flower Piece". Major Serre and Friederike were originally friends of Friedrich Wieck, Clara Schumann's father, who brought his daughter to Maxen in 1837 to keep her safe from Schumann. However, the Serres favored the lovers. The Serres sometimes lived in their Dresden villa on Johannisgasse (Amalienstrasse since 1840). In 1823 Friederike Serre set up foundations for the association to provide advice and action, to support orphaned children and to set up a free school in the Wilsdruffer suburb . On October 16, 1831, she supported the establishment of an orphan colony in Maxen. Serre was the board secretary of the women's animal welfare association. She made significant contributions in her work for the German Schiller Foundation and the Tiedge Foundation. Their support for the Javanese painter Raden Saleh and the African mining student Aquasi Boachi shows the international breadth of their humanistic outlook.

Her grave inscription in the Trinity cemetery rightly reads : She wanted the good . The tomb was restored in 2001. A street in Dresden was named in her honor.

Works

• "Oh you mein Stern" (text by Friederike Serre, set to music by Clara Schumann )
• "When parting" (text by Friederike Serre, set to music by Clara Schumann)

literature

• Necrologist . In: Our time , 1872, p. 646. Digitized
• Chronicle of Maxen . Published by Heimatverein Maxen eV 2nd edition, Verlag Niggemann & Simon, Maxen 2010. ISBN 978-3-9810717-4-0
• Lothar Bolze: "The good deeds of Friederike Serre", in: Dresdner Latest News , April 25, 2000
• Jutta Tronicke: “A patron in Maxen. Friederike Amalie Serre was born 200 years ago ”, in: Sächsische Zeitung , April 8, 2000
• Hans Christian Andersen in Dresden and Maxen. Documentation of a friendship between Friederike and Friedrich Anton Serre and Hans Christian Andersen by Lothar Bolze. Verlag Niggemann & Simon, Maxen 2005. ISBN 3-9808477-7-2
• Serres and the artists. Texts, pictures, impressions from the Maxener Talks. Verlag Niggemann & Simon, Maxen 2009. ISBN 978-3-9810717-2-6

Web links

• Lothar Bolze: Serre, Friederike . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .