Karoline Ludecus

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Johanne Karoline Amalie Kotzebue (born November 16, 1757 in Wolfenbüttel , † June 15, 1844 in Weimar ) was a German writer .

Life

Karoline Kotzebue was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1757 as the second daughter of the Braunschweig majors Levin Karl Christian Kotzebue and his wife Christina Krüger. Her uncle was the writer Johann Karl August Musäus . Her father was in the service of Duchess Anna Amalia in Weimar as a councilor and secret trainee lawyer. There he lived in the Yellow Castle , to which the family soon also moved. In 1761, Karoline's brother August Kotzebue , who later also worked as a writer, was born here. In the same year the father died. Karoline Kotzebue soon became court maid of Duchess Anna Amalia and married Johann Friedrich Gildemeister on April 20, 1778 in Weimar, with whom she had three children. In 1793 she married the ducal tax councilor Johann August Ludecus in Weimar.

As a writer, she often published anonymously or under the pseudonym "Amalie Berg". Her first novel Luise or the unfortunate consequences of carelessness. A story simple and true was published in 1800 by her brother August Kotzebue and contained a dedication to Sophie von La Roche , whom Karoline Ludecus had greatly influenced in her literary work with her work Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim . In the years that followed, numerous shorter stories appeared, mainly in magazines such as the Enthuserungen , the Frauenzeitung or Beckers Erholungen .

Works

  • Luise or the unfortunate consequences of carelessness. A story simple and true. 2 volumes. Kummer, Leipzig 1800 and 1812. ( digitized volume 2 )
  • Elise Grünfeld (1802)
  • The local siblings (1802)
  • Suspicion (1802)
  • The rewarded sacrifice (1802)
  • Pauline or the power of education. (1803)
  • Repentance reconciles. A Tale (1803)
  • Laura von Wiesenthal (1804)
  • Reunification (1804)
  • Amalie, incident from the Revolutionary Wars (1805)
  • Lost and Return (1805)
  • Vicious joys never bring happiness (1805)
  • Sophie von Normann. Frölich, Berlin 1806. ( digitized version )
  • Johanne Gray. Tragedy in Five Acts (1806)
  • They found each other (1807)
  • Eleanor. A family painting (1812)
  • On female upbringing and education, to German women by a German woman (1815)
  • Caroline, Countess von Thorenberg or the heiress of the quiet valley, and Der Jokey. Two stories. Müller, Erfurt 1816. ( digitized version )
  • Nature and Human Love (1816)
  • The robber's den (1819)
  • Catechism of servants for the schools of the women's association. Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1819.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the 19th century . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823, p. 359.
  • Franz Muncker:  Ludecus, Caroline . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 367-369.
  • Elisabeth Friedrich: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-47600456-2 , p. 190.
  • Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-47600835-5 , p. 403.
  • Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gaby Pailer (eds.): Lexicon of German-language epics and drama by women authors (1730–1900). Franke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8189-4 , pp. 272-275.
  • Rostislav von Kotzebue: History and genealogy of the Kotzebue family.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Most of the titles listed under the works cannot be found in the electronic library catalogs worldwide, they are probably dependent publications.
  2. ↑ Dependent work, published as No. 11 of Der Cavalliere Servente, or Damen-Liebling.
personal data
SURNAME Ludecus, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amalie Johanna Karoline Kotzebue; Amalie Mountain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and sister of August von Kotzebue
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH 19th century
Place of death Weimar