Gisela von Arnim

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Gisela von Arnim
Gisela von Arnim, drawing by Louise Seidler , around 1860

Ottilie Beate Gisela Walburgis von Arnim , also Giesela , married. Grimm (born August 30, 1827 in Berlin , † April 4, 1889 in Florence ), was a German writer .

Life

Gisela von Arnim was the youngest child of the writer Bettina, b. Brentano and Achim von Arnim . Her father died when Gisela von Arnim was three years old. Bettina von Arnim took on her upbringing and committed private teachers, such as Hegel's pupil , Karl Keck. Brümmer calls Gisela von Arnim the most gifted child Bettina and Achim von Arnim. Gisela von Arnim grew up at a time when romanticism was already fading. Her mother, who like her father had been one of the main representatives of the era, brought it closer to her with her fairy tale collections, especially those of Wilhelm Hauff . At the age of 20, Gisela von Arnim published her first fairy tales under pseudonyms, which were inspired by her father, Clemens Brentano and / or ETA Hoffmann .

Already in 1841 Gisela von Arnim had met her future husband, the German scholar and art historian Herman Grimm , a son of the literary scholar Wilhelm Grimm , who was one of the so-called " Göttingen Seven " professors who had fallen out of favor with the Hanoverian King Ernst August . In 1849 she met the concertmaster and violinist Joseph Joachim , who was born in 1831 in Weimar . A love relationship that was sometimes very painful for all three participants developed, which only came to an end with Gisela von Arnim's marriage to Herman Grimm on October 24, 1859. Like her mother, she was friends with Robert Schumann and his wife Clara during these years .

In 1888 Gisela von Arnim traveled to Rome , where she hoped to be cured from a heart condition. On the way back to Germany she died in Florence. Her grave is on the local Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori (New Evangelical Cemetery) south of the Porta Romana.

In addition to plays, Gisela von Arnim mainly wrote fairy tales, which appeared under the pseudonym Marilla Fittchersvogel .

Works

  • The life of the High Countess Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (with Bettina von Arnim, 1840)
    • The life of the High Countess Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (with Bettina von Arnim), Manesse Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7175-2158-7 . Also available from many other publishers.
  • From the papers of a sparrow (Märchen, 1848). Digitized by: Central and State Library Berlin, 2013. URN
  • Moon King's daughter. Fairy tale for an evening hour. Bauer, Charlottenburg 1844.
  • Dramatic works (4 volumes; 1857–1875)
  • Three fairy tales. Arnim, Berlin 1853. ( digitized version )
  • The light. (Festival, 1870) ( digitized version of the manuscript )
  • The yellow hood. (Comedy, 1877)
  • A letter about Rome and Berlin. (1887)
  • Old Scotland. Drama in five acts. Hertz, Berlin 1890. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Bettina Ringseis, letters from Herman and Gisela Grimm to the Ringseis sisters . Fontane and Co, Berlin 1905
  • Franz Brümmer , Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 444
  • eGustav Konrad (ed.): Fairy tales of Bettine, Armgart and Gisela von Arnim . Bartmann, Frechen 1965, OCLC 453174779 .
  • Shawn C. Jarvis (ed.): Gisela von Arnim - fairy tale letters to Achim . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16034-5 .
  • Susanne Kord : A look behind the scenes. German-speaking female dramatists in the 18th and 19th centuries (= results of women's research , Volume 27), Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 374f, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 .
  • Eva Mey : “I'm like a star at midnight.” The writer Gisela von Arnim - daughter of Bettina and wife of Herman Grimms . Hirzel, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7776-1331-2 .
  • Gisela von Armin: The life of the High Countess Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns. Fairy tale novel . Fritzikatz Productions, Verlag Buch & Design 2016, ISBN 978-3-942764-04-9

Web links

Wikisource: Gisela von Arnim  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brümmer, p. 444.
  2. ↑ See Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 53–86, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5
  3. ↑ urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-8107435
  4. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Gisela von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Gisela (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1889
Place of death Florence