Karoline Friederike von Berg
Karoline Friederike Countess von Berg, born von Haeseler (born October 19, 1760 in Magdeburg , † November 15, 1826 in Teplitz ) was lady-in-waiting and confidante of Queen Luise of Prussia . She ran a literary salon in Berlin .
Life
family
Karoline Friederike was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Legation Councilor Johann August von Haeseler (1724–1763) and his wife, Sophie Dorothea, divorced in 1758, von Marschall (1734–1802), daughter of the Prussian State Minister Heinrich Graf von Podewils . Karoline's paternal grandfather was August von Haeseler .
She married the Privy Councilor of Justice and Prussian Chamberlain Karl Ludwig Graf von Berg (* April 16, 1754, † December 28, 1847), Lords on Kleptow, Werbelow , Schönfeld and Klein-Spiegelberg. The marriage came from the daughter Luise Countess von Berg (1780-1865), who married on October 14, 1800 with Count August Ernst von Voss auf Groß Gievitz , the grandson of the Chief Chamberlain Countess von Voss and later Prussian ambassador in Naples .
Confidante of Queen Luise
Karoline von Haeseler grew up in Weimar, where she had personal relationships with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried von Herder since her youth . The latter called them a treasure trove of reason and active wisdom . She was also personally acquainted with Friedrich von Schiller .
After their divorce, Karoline Friederike von Berg came to the Prussian court in Berlin . Here she entered the service of Queen Luise , possibly through the mediation of her friend Marie von Kleist , as a lady- in- waiting , whom she soon elected to be her closest advisor and confidante. She made the queen familiar with the works of the Weimar great intellectuals and in general became the trigger and focus of the Berlin veneration of Goethe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The king did not like his wife Luise's new company. He complained that "unskilled people played into their hands the incomprehensible writings of German fashion writers and eccentric fashion writers", and tried to prevent this, just as he wanted to restrict contact with Ms. von Berg .
Nevertheless, after the fateful years of 1806 and 1807, she became the most intimate friend to whom Luise used to confess, which she herself did not trust her brother . When the royal family had to flee from Napoleon's troops to Königsberg , Karoline initially accompanied the queen there, but returned to Berlin because of the king's antipathies . After the queen's return in December 1809, she was close again and accompanied the sick Luise on her last trip to see her father in Neustrelitz . Luise died in the arms of Frau von Berg on July 19, 1810 at Schloss Hohenzieritz .
She became the queen's first biographer. In 1814 Karoline Friederike von Berg published her memoirs under the title: Louise, Queen of Prussia . Her essay on the Queen's last days of life, published in the morning paper for educated classes as early as 1811, was also printed in the appendix .
Berlin Salonnière
Numerous poets and scholars frequented her house at Wilhelmstrasse 70. She was friends with Gleim , who once called her "our holy Caroline", with the Jacobi brothers , the Stolberg brothers , with Claudius , Voss , Herder, Wieland , Goethe and also with Jean Paul , who she called "the manliest but best woman celebrated with "and as a" spiritual Amazon " . High civil servants like Freiherr vom Stein also frequented their circle.
Lady-in-waiting of Princess Friederike
After the death of Prince zu Solms-Braunfels in 1814, she became the maid of honor of his widow, Princess Friederike von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , sister of Queen Luise. She held this office until her death, which overtook her during a cure in Teplitz. Her death was gentle, she thought she was asleep and passed away after she had turned sixty-six a few weeks earlier.
Works
- The last days of the life of Queen Louise (of Prussia) with her most noble father in Neu-Strelitz and Hohen-Zieritz in Mecklenburg from June 25 to July 19, 1810, on which last July 19 she also ended in Hohen-Zieritz , in: Morgenblatt for the educated estates of May 2nd and 3rd, 1811
- Louise Queen of Prussia. Dedicated to the Prussian nation. For the sake of the widows and orphans of landwehr men and volunteer hunters , Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1814
literature
- Paul Bailleu : Queen Luise. A picture of life, Giesecke and Devrient, Leipzig and Berlin 1908
- Urte von Berg: Caroline Friederike von Berg - friend of Queen Luise of Prussia. A portrait based on letters , Wallstein, Göttingen 2008
- Paul Hoffmann : Kleist works 1899–1943 , ed. v. Günther Emig in connection with Arno Pielenz, Kleist Archive Sembdner , Heilbronn 2011 (Heilbronner Kleist Studies, 4)
- Johannes Thiele: Luise of Prussia . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-50532-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from: Paul Bailleu: Königin Luise , p. 117
- ↑ Johannes Thiele: Luise von Preußen , p. 55
- ↑ a b Paul Bailleu: Queen Luise , p. 118
- ^ Paul Bailleu: Queen Luise , p. 120
- ↑ Johannes Thiele: Luise von Preußen , p. 118
- ^ A b Paul Hoffmann: Kleist works , p. 675
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Karoline Friederike von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berg, Karoline Friederike Countess von; Haeseler, Karoline Friederike von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lady-in-waiting and salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1826 |
| Place of death | Teplitz |