Karoline Balkow

Karoline Balkow also Karoline Ballkow (born June 24, 1794 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1872 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Balkow was born as the daughter of the royal Prussian government councilor Balkow in Berlin. At the age of four she was cared for by an aunt on her mother's side and grew up in Beiersdorf . She received home lessons; Reading evenings by her uncle, who worked as a preacher in Beiersdorf, aroused her interest in literature. She soon wrote her first poems and began “poetic correspondence” with a neighboring landowner.

Balkow read, among other things, Pindar's hymns and poems by Heinrich von Kleist and later Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 1816 Balkow's first works appeared in Karl Müchler's Kolibri and later in other magazines. She still lived in Beiersdorf in 1833. She spent the end of her life as a nun in Berlin.

Works

• 1817: The unreachable in Müchler's Kolibri
• Confirmation song , The Iron Cross in Heinrich Burdach's Musenalmanach
• 1818: Poems ( The Exile , The Crypt , The Rose , Mammon's Column ) and The Epheukranz, a prosaic story in Georg Lotz's original works
• 1819–1820: Poems (including transitoriness and persistence , pity , An die Phantasie , Des Veilchens Erwachen ) in Johann Daniel Symanski's Freimüthigen

Balkow also published various articles and wrote for the magazine for the elegant world and Symanski's viewers .

literature

• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 14.
• Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century . FIRST PART: A-L . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, pp. 31–34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jerusalemkirche (Berlin): Church book . Funerals. No. 518/1872.
2. ↑ Schindel, p. 32.