Johanne Justine Renner
That's Gustel from Blasewitz ! ”
In Wallenstein's camp ( Schiller Gallery );
Steel engraving by Conrad Geyer after Pecht , around 1859
Johanne Justine Renner b. Segedin (born January 5, 1763 in Dresden , † February 24, 1856 in Blasewitz ) is known as "Gustel von Blasewitz" and was known to Friedrich Schiller .
Life
At the age of 22, Johanne Justine Segedin served the guests in her parents' bar, the “Fleischerschen Schenke” in Blasewitz near Dresden, which later became the Schillergarten . Among them was Friedrich Schiller, who stayed with his friend Christian Gottfried Körner in his summer residence on the other bank of the Elbe between 1785 and 1787 and had himself taken to the tavern a few times.
It is unclear whether the two had more in common than a warm friendship. The fact that Justine was a decent young lady speaks against it, and she was engaged to boot. During Schiller's stay in Dresden, she married the Dresden lawyer and later Senator Renner in the church in Leuben . At the end of his time in Dresden, Schiller, on the other hand, got excited for the young Henriette von Arnim, whom he met at a masked ball. Nevertheless, it can be assumed that Schiller was at least to some extent impressed by the young woman. In his piece of Wallenstein's camp , which he wrote over ten years after his time in Dresden in Weimar, he had a hunter exclaim: “What? the Lightning! That's Gustel from Blasewitz! ”There is no direct mention of Gustel in Schiller's letters or notes. Since then Johanne Justine Segedin has been called the "Gustel von Blasewitz". Later modifications of Schiller's Wallenstein saying made, among other things, “Potz Blitz! That's the Gustel von Blasewitz ”from it.
The respected Senator Renner outlived her husband by many years, and her children died well before her. Already during her lifetime she had to endure the hype about her person and was probably never really happy with it. As can be read in written records in the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Dresden, she still kept some relics from the time with Schiller, such as dried field flowers and a letter signed “Your Frid. S. ”From this formulation, a certain closeness between Schiller and her can be seen, common at that time would be“ Your Frid. S. “been.
Although Justine Renner lived in Dresden for many years, she always remained connected to Blasewitz. According to her last will, in 1857 one of her relatives handed over 100 thalers to the Dresden court office, from whose interest a "Blasewitz child for hard work and good behavior" should be considered every year, as the Dresdner Nachrichten wrote in 1937. In addition to the grave in the Eliasfriedhof in field D 10-1, Justinenstrasse near Schillerplatz, the sculpture by Martin Engelke at the Blasewitz town hall and a stained glass window in the Blasewitz church remind of the Gustel. The A. Renner fashion house , located on the south side of Dresden's Altmarkt until 1945 , was run by descendants of the Renner family.
literature
- Anna von Smelding: The Gustel von Blasewitz . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1933.
Web links
- Gustel Segedin with ancestors on Stadtwiki DD
- Schiller and Gustel von Blasewitz on dresden-blasewitz.de
- Johanne Justine Renner on eliasfriedhof.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renner, Johanne Justine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Segedin, Johanne Justine (maiden name); Gustel from Blasewitz; Gustel von Blasewitz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dresden personality |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1856 |
| Place of death | Blowjoke |