Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine walks

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Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine Bewegungs (née Meyer or Maier, second marriage Uthe-Wal; * May 10, 1777 in Berlin ; † March 11, 1825 in Dresden ; called Minna) was a German poet, writer and editor of the Urania calendar published by Brockhaus .

Life

Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine Bewegungs was the eldest daughter of the secret high tribunal councilor and medicine professor Joh. Christ. Meyer (also Maier) was born. She was a sister-in-law of the German writer and publicist Siegfried August Mahlmann and sister-in-law of the German writer Jean Paul .

Around 1796, at the age of 19, she married the publicist Johann Gottlieb Karl Bewegungs and moved with him to Dessau in the same year and to Leipzig four years later . Karl Walk died in 1805.

In the company of August Apel , Adolph Wagner , Johann Christian August Heinroth , August Mahlmann and Schnorr, she stayed in Leipzig , where she edited the paperback Urania published by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus for a short time .

She got engaged to Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , but the engagement was broken. In 1811, after a serious illness, she moved back to her parents in Berlin.

At the end of 1814 she became a teacher and head of the ducal daughter's school in Neustrelitz and then worked as an educator for the two sons of a Herr von Jasmund at the same place. In 1816 she moved to Dresden and married the royal court organ builder Joh. Andreas Uthe.

Johanne Karoline Wilhelminewalk translated and published translations from French ("Letters of Lespinasse ", "Letters, Character and Thoughts of Prince Carl von Ligny by Mad. De Staël-Holstein"). She wrote biographical essays and other articles for various literary journals, including a sensitive necrology for her Leipzig friend J. Aug. Apel in the newspaper for the elegant world in 1816 . She wrote and published poems that, according to her biographer Friedrich Brandes, did not get beyond mediocre in their simplicity. From 1801 to 1813 she was the publisher of the popular paperback for love and friendship.

Works

  • Julie de Lespinasse, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine Meyer walks: Letters from Lespinasse. Büschler, Leipzig 1810
  • Johanne Karoline Wilhelminewalk: hand drawings from the circle of life. Print edition published anonymously, 1812 and 1816.
  • "Letters, character and thoughts of Prince Carl von Ligny from Mad. De Staël-Holstein", Amsterdam 1812
  • Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine Meyer Walk : Sinngrün, a series of romantic stories with the participation of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter and the support of some German women. Verlag J. Enslin, Berlin 1819. In part already published elsewhere.
  • Urania , paperback, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig.
  • Editor of the "Pocket Book for Love and Friendship", Frankfurt 1801–1813

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Brandes:  Walk, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 73 f.
  2. ↑ Letters ...: Evidence in Worldcat [1] [2] [3]
  3. ↑ Hand drawings ...: Proof in Worldcat 1st edition 1812 , further parts
  4. ↑ Proof in Worldcat [4] [5]
personal data
SURNAME Walk, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine; Mayer, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine; Meyer, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine; Uthe -walk, Johanne Karoline Wilhelmine; Mayer, Minna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1825
Place of death Dresden