Karl Klingemann (diplomat)

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Karl Klingemann in a miniature by August Grahl , created between 1825 and 1850.
Palais Groeben, later the palace of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family in Berlin, Leipziger Strasse 3. The Hanoverian embassy used the bel étage.

Karl Klingemann , also Carl Klingemann , (born December 2, 1798 in Limmer an der Leine , † September 25, 1862 in London ) was a German civil servant, diplomat and writer.

Life

Klingemann was initially a clerk, then chancellor at the Royal Hanoverian Embassy in Paris (1816), Berlin (from 1818) and from September 1827, Legation Secretary in London under Legation Councilor Adolph Graf von Kielmannsegg .

Probably since 1825 he had known the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family , in whose house at Leipziger Strasse 3, on Bel Etage , the Hanoverian embassy was located. He became a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and exchanged many letters with him. Mendelssohn Bartholdy always stopped by Klingemann on his visits to London. The lifelong friendship of the two is documented by an extensive correspondence comprising more than 300 letters. In addition to several song texts, Klingemann also wrote the libretto for the Singspiele Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1825, Op. 10) and The Homecoming from Foreign Countries (Opus 89, 1829) for his friend .

On August 10, 1845, he married Sophie Rosen (1822–1901) in Detmold , the half-sister of Friedrich August Rosen and sister of Georg Rosen ; The marriage resulted in five children, only three of whom survived, including Karl , who later became the general superintendent of the Rhine Province.

Former Hanover Legation, 4 Hobart Place (2014)
Blue memorial plaque for Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the house of the former embassy

His London apartment in the house of the Hanover Legation at 4 Hobart Place in the Belgravia district was the social center; belonged to the circle of friends u. a. Malwida from Meysenbug . At the house since 2013 a blue plaque (reminiscent Blue Plaque ) to the stays Mendelssohn.

literature

  • Karl Klingemann (Ed.): Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's correspondence with Legation Councilor Karl Klingemann in London. GD Baedeker, Essen 1909, ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Regina Back: "Friend of my musical soul". Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann in a letter dialogue. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7618-2299-9 (also: Hamburg, University of Music and Theater, dissertation, 2012).

Web links

Commons : Karl Klingemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaischer Genealogischer Hof-Kalender and diplomatic-statistical yearbook . Vol. 96, 1859, p. 452. Adolph von Kielmannsegg (1796–1866) was finally Hanoverian ambassador to London from 1840–1866.
  2. ^ Notes and audio files by Karl Klingemann in the International Music Score Library Project
  3. ↑ Klingemann, Carl in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
  4. ↑ Malwida von Meysenbug : Memoirs of an idealist. Volume 3. 6th edition. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin et al. 1900, p. 116.
  5. ↑ Mendelssohn lodging receives blue plaque , BBC report from February 4, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Klingemann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klingemann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Limmer on a leash
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1862
Place of death London