Ida Hahn-Hahn

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Ida Hahn-Hahn

Ida Hahn-Hahn or Ida Countess von Hahn , actually Ida Marie Louise Sophie Friederike Gustave Countess von Hahn , sometimes wrongly: von Hahn-Hahn (born  June 22, 1805 in Tressow ; † January 12, 1880 in Mainz ) was a German writer , Poet and monastery founder. She came from the noble family of the rooster . She used the double name "Countess Hahn-Hahn" with preference.

Life

Ida Countess von Hahn (No. 367 of the gender census ) was born as the daughter of the "theater count " Karl (Friedrich) Graf von Hahn (-Neuhaus) (1782–1857) and his wife Sophie, born. von Behr , in the manor house of Tressow, today a district of Schwinkendorf, in Mecklenburg Switzerland . She was the granddaughter of the natural philosopher and astronomer Friedrich von Hahn . After the parents' divorce (1809), she moved with her mother and siblings to Rostock , Neubrandenburg and Greifswald , where they lived in poor conditions.

Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn, age portrait

In July 1826, for dynastic reasons, she was married to her cousin, Friedrich (Wilhelm Adolph) Graf von Hahn (1804-1859) at Castle Basedow , who later became known as a horse breeder and racing stable owner , and so she got her double name. The marriage was divorced on February 5, 1829, one month before the birth of their mentally handicapped daughter Antonie (1829–1856, No. 371 of the gender census). The repeatedly claimed existence of a son with her life and travel companion Adolf Freiherr von Bystram (1792–1849), who was born in 1830 and, like the daughter from their marriage, was taken into care, cannot be proven; neither in the more than 1000 letters from and to her, nor elsewhere. In her book Jenseits der Berge (Leipzig 1840, 2nd part) she mentions “my only child” (p. 320) and confesses with relief: “Wol me that I have no son!” (P. 187). In 1836 Ida Hahn-Hahn had a brief liaison with the later imperial regent Heinrich Simon from 1849 .

Grave of Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn in the main cemetery in Mainz

After the divorce she led an unsteady wandering life between Berlin, Dresden, Greifswald, Vienna and Gut Neuhaus ( Giekau ), the property of her brother Ferdinand (1809–1888). She traveled extensively with Bystram, which took her to France, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland and the Orient. After Bystram's death at the end of May 1849, Ida Hahn-Hahn initiated her conversion to Catholicism . Disappointed and lonely, she left Dresden and on January 1, 1850, began an intensive correspondence with the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Melchior von Diepenbrock from Berlin on questions of faith . This brought her together with the provost of St. Hedwig in Berlin, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler . She then converted to the Catholic Church on March 26, 1850. In front of Ketteler, who was appointed bishop of Mainz a little later, she made her creed in St. Hedwig and received her first Holy Communion on March 28th. In September 1850 she followed Ketteler to Mainz, where she received the sacrament of Confirmation on June 10, 1851. From November 6, 1852 to the end of February 1853, she stayed in Angers / France at the Convent du Bon-Pasteur . In December 1853 she opened next to the St. Stephen's Church in Mainz with the support of Ketteler, the Vom guten Hirten monastery , in which she lived until her death, without belonging to the order and without being obliged to take a retreat. Her grave is in the Mainzer Hauptfriedhof , field 14, row 17.

Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn was one of the most widely read authors of her time. She received recognition from writers such as Eichendorff and Fontane, but also rejection: Her mannered narrative style, peppered with foreign words, was satirized - especially in the novel Diogena by her competitor Fanny Lewald  - and her elitist aristocratic attitude was criticized. Today it is often measured against contemporary standards. Statements about Turks and Arabs, as well as open racism that manifests itself several times, as can be seen, for example, in her descriptions of negro slaves in the Oriental Letters , make her travel reports about the Orient a questionable reading pleasure from today's perspective. On the other hand, these views are countered by a repeatedly emphasized and admonished religious tolerance with regard to “Mohammedans” and Jews, and at least the author's fundamental will to respond to the customs of the Orient, which are perceived as alien, is noticeable.

Since 1844, Ida Hahn-Hahn's works have been translated into eight foreign languages: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Hungarian. A total of 24 translators have been identified so far.

Works (in selection)

Novels

Printed letters

  • Ludmilla Assing : Correspondence and diaries of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Hamburg 1873, pp. 273–346 (correspondence between Pückler and Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn). And: Heinrich Conrad : Women's letters from and to Hermann Fürsten Pückler-Muskau. Munich & Leipzig 1912, pp. 219–303 (Pückler and Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn).
  • Alfons Nowack : Cardinal Diepenbrock's correspondence with Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn before and after her conversion. Munich 1931.
  • Helmut Hinkel: Ida Hahn-Hahn. "... I would really like to quarrel with you ..." Letters from Mainz to Christoph Moufang . Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-943904-60-4 .
  • Helmut Hinkel: Ida Hahn-Hahn. Royal Mail. Correspondence with Queen Marie of Saxony, Queen Amalie of Saxony and Archduchess Sophie of Austria . Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-945751-50-3 .

estate

Ida Hahn-Hahn's estate comprises around 730 autograph units, consisting of around 520 letters from her and more than 180 letters to her as well as manuscripts of books and poems, and has been in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan Berlin since 2006/2007 , which also has an index who carries letters from and to Ida Hahn-Hahn. The inventory contains letters of a unique abundance on life and work, including the correspondence with Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau in 1844/1845 , letters from Melchior von Diepenbrock , Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and the Saxon queens Marie and Amalie . In total, more than 1400 letters written by Ida Hahn-Hahn and addressed to her can be traced in archives and libraries in Germany and abroad.

Honor

In 2010, the city of Mainz named a street in the Mainz-Hartenberg-Münchfeld district after Ida Hahn-Hahn: Ida-von-Hahn-Straße. The Leipzig editor and author Ralph Zade commented on the naming: "Well meant, but badly done, as it is not known by this name". The writer is known by two forms of name. She published her books, including those from her Catholic time in Mainz, under the name Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn . She signed her letters with Ida Hahn-Hahn . The city of Mainz obviously used the baptism certificate as a guide when naming the street.

literature

General

  • Fritz Martini:  Ida von Hahn-Hahn. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 498-500 ( digitized version ).
  • Richard Moritz Meyer:  Hahn-Hahn, Ida Countess of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 711-718.
  • Katrien van Munster: The young Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn. Stiasny, Graz 1929. (digitized from Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Erna Ines Schmid-Jürgens: Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn. (= Germanic Studies. 144). Reprint d. Edition Berlin 1933. Kraus, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1967.
  • Adolf Töpker: Relations of Ida Hahn-Hahns to the humanity of the German romanticism . Pöppinghaus, Bochum 1937.
  • Gerd Lüpke: Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn. The life picture of a Mecklenburg Biedermeier author . Giebel, Bremen 1975.
  • Renate Möhrmann: The other woman. Approaches to Emancipation by German Women Writers in the Run-Up to the Forty-Eight Revolution . Metzler, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00353-1 .
  • Gert Oberembt: Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn. Weltschmerz and Ultramontanism . Studies of the entertainment novel in the 19th century. (= Treatises on art, music and literary studies. 302). Bouvier, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-416-01545-2 .
  • Gerlinde Maria Geiger: The liberated psyche. Approaches to emancipation in Ida Hahn-Hahn's early work (1838–1848). (= European university publications. Series 1, German language and literature. 866). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8907-X .
  • Wulf Wülfing: Travel Reports in March: The Paradigms Heinrich Heine and Ida Hahn-Hahn. In: Peter J. Brenner (Ed.): The travel report. The development of a genre in German literature. (= st. 2097). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-518-38597-6 , pp. 333-362.
  • Lucie Guntli: Goethe Era and Catholicism in Ida Hahn-Hahn's work. A contribution to the intellectual history of the 19th century. (= German university publications. Old series. 6; Universitas archive, literary history department. 7). Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-89349-043-4 .
  • Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti: Identity and perception with Ida von Hahn-Hahn and Ida Pfeiffer based on their reports on the Orient. Thesis. University of Hildesheim , 1995. (digitized ; PDF; 716 kB)
  • Shubhangi Dabak: Images of the Orient in the travel writings of Ida Pfeiffer and Ida Hahn-Hahn . Univ. Diss. East Lansing MI, 1999
  • Carola Hilmes: Scandal Stories. Aspects of a women's literary history . Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2004, ISBN 3-89741-154-7 .
  • Herlinde Cayzer: Feminist Awakening: Ida von Hahn-Hahn's "Countess Faustine" and Luise Mühlbach 's "Aphra Behn" . Univ. Diss. Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane 2007. (Digitized ; PDF; 2.1 MB)
  • Beate Borowka-Clausberg: On the way to the Orient. Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn's trip to Silesia in 1843. A travel report. Bergstadtverlag Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 2007.
  • Beate Borowka-Clausberg: “I travel to live.” Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn's literary journey through life with a carriage and train. In: Christina Ujma (ed.): Ways to Modernity. Travel literature by writers from the Vormärz. Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-728-2 , pp. 69-79.
  • Sabine Gruber, Ralph Zade: "From Babylon to Jerusalem". The writer Ida Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880). (= Mainzer Perspektiven: From history. Volume 6). Diocese of Mainz Publications, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-934450-52-3 .
  • Hans-Joachim Griephan: "... an invaluable source for researching the intellectual history of the 19th century". Manuscripts by Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive, in libraries, archives and museums. In: Winfried Wilhelmy (Ed.): Bibliothecarius Martinianus, humanities studies in the context of the Martinus Library in Mainz. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-429-05347-5 , pp. 371–398.
  • Hans-Joachim Griephan: Ida Hahn-Hahn: Letters, album sheets, poems, manuscripts. The manuscript holdings of libraries, archives and museums (as of August 2018). In: Winfried Wilhelmy (ed.): Bibliothecarius Martinianus, humanities studies in the environment of the Martinus library in Mainz. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-429-05347-5 , pp. 387-396.

As a letter writer

  • Gabriele Dürbeck: The Countess and the Cardinal. The correspondence between Ida Hahn-Hahn and Cardinal Diepenbrock. In: Rainer Baasner (Ed.): Letter culture in the 19th century. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, pp. 37-54.
  • Ulrike Stamm: "Every word you say arouses the contrast in me quite involuntarily". The correspondence between Prince Pückler-Muskau and Ida Countess Hahn-Hahn. In: Selma Jahnke, Sylvie Le Moël (ed.): Letters around 1800. On the mediality of generation. BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2015, pp. 411–430.
  • Urte Stobbe: Noble letter writers among themselves. In: Jana Kittelmann (ed.): Letter networks around Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. (= Edition Branitz. 11). Thelem, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-945363-06-5 , pp. 133-148.

As a character in a novel

Web links

Commons : Ida Hahn-Hahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ida von Hahn-Hahn  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to DNB research, the author's statement is without “from” in the majority of the works!
  2. ↑ The extent to which the name Hahn-Hahn , which is traditionally explained by the marriage of Ida Countess von Hahn with her cousin Friedrich Graf von Hahn of the same name, is to be understood as the artist's pseudonym remains controversial. For Ida von Hahn there has so far been no evidence of a name association that is binding under nobility law and mandatory under professional law, as is known from numerous other noble families.
  3. ↑ The only census of the counts Hahn dynasty to date was set up by Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch in the genealogical history (4 volumes, 1844-1856) edited and published by him under the title “History and documents of the Hahn dynasty” .
  4. ↑ At that time Berlin was a prince-bishop delegation for the Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania and thus subordinate to the prince-bishop of Breslau. Compare Michael Sachs: 'Prince-Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2018, pp. 223–291, here: p. 276.
  5. ^ Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel von in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography
  6. ↑ " We cannot project values ​​that we have today, but also freedoms, back into the past ." Philipp Demandt, Director of the Städel Museum, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 1, 2018, No. 27, p. 11.
  7. ↑ News overview of the Episcopal Press Office in Mainz from October 28, 2011, "She was a great in her time".
personal data
SURNAME Hahn-Hahn, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Ida Countess von (real name); Hahn, Ida Marie Louise Sophie Friederike Gustava Countess von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and founder of a monastery
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Tressow
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1880
Place of death Mainz