Katharina Sibylla Schücking

Katharina Sibylla Schücking b. Busch, portrayed by Johann Christoph Rincklake

Katharina Sibylla Schücking (born January 26, 1791 in Ahlen , † November 2, 1831 in Sögel ; born Katharina Busch ) was a Westphalian poet .

Life

Funerary monument

Katharina Sibylla Schücking was the eldest of twelve children of the city and regional judge Ignatz Anton Busch and his wife Elisabeth Busch, born Elverfeldt, born. She grew up in Dülmen and was educated in the Agnetenberg monastery there. From 1807 to 1809 she stayed in Münster . Here her literary talent was discovered and promoted by the poet Anton Matthias Sprickmann . In Münster she also got to know the circle around Princess Amalia von Gallitzin . In 1809 Katharina returned to Dülmen. In 1813 Katharina married the lawyer Paulus Modestus Schücking . The couple had six children: Christoph Bernhard Levin Matthias, known as Levin Schücking (1814–1883), Peter August Gerhard (1816–1817), Anton Matthias Franz Alfred (1818–1898), Ida Josephina Theophania Desideria (1821–1883), Modesta Paulina Nicolaia Roswitha (1825–1896) and Prosper Ludwig (1828–1887).

In 1815 the Schücking family moved to Sögel near Meppen . As a result of moving to another place of residence, Katharina suffered from her social and spatial isolation. This brought her literary work to a standstill and she died on November 2nd, 1831 at the Ludmillenhof in Sögel. The grave monument of Katharina Sibylla Schücking is located in the forecourt of the Church of St. Prosper in Gehlenberg (Friesoythe).

Services

Friedrich Raßmann's Mimigardia contained Katharina Sibylla Schücking's first printed poems in 1810. Contrary to their wishes, this was not done under a pseudonym, but by mentioning their name and place of residence. As a result, ridicule and laughter poured out over the author. As a result, Katharina in no way lost her reputation as a poet. In 1813 there was a first meeting and a subsequent friendship with the then sixteen year old Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , for whom she was a kind of "poet idol". Droste later dedicated her own poem, Catharine Schücking .

Part of their work remained unpublished. She raved about Klopstock and was the author of soulful, delicate poetry, as in The Dream :

One hour oh and this hardly, but
the most beautiful hour of my life
was I blessed because a
lovely dream floats around my temple not in vain
I was removed from all earthly things I
felt only heavenly things made happy
And completely surrendered to the dream
I quickly live a whole beautiful life.

Their situation is also expressed in such utterances as these: "If I hadn't become a woman who had to nestle so patiently in all the shackles and restrictions of bourgeois life, no matter how different his character and mental powers may be , but always has to comply with the same determination. "( Letter to Anton Mathias Sprickmann, 1809 )

Katharina Sibylla Schücking wrote under the pseudonym "Pauline zu Cl."

Works

• Letters to Anton Mathias Sprickmann. In: Groß, Volume 1, 1885, pp. 216f.
• Letters to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. In: K. Schulte Kemminghausen: A fateful letter. For Levin Schücking's 150th birthday. In: Westf. News. No. 206 of September 5, 1964.

• Katharina Schücking reading book. (= Nylands Small Westphalian Library. Volume 27). Compiled and with an afterword by Walter Gödden. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-843-2 .

literature

• K. Weber: Katharina Schücking. An image of upbringing and life from the beginning of the nineteenth century. Dissertation. Münster 1918 [handwriting] (ULB Münster).
• Levin Schücking: Memoirs. 2 volumes. Breslau 1886. (numerous mentions in the literature about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, e.g. in depictions by Elise von Hohenhausen and Elise Rüdiger.)
• Jutta Desel, Walter Gödden (ed.): Katharina Busch-Schücking (1791–1831) - Works and Letters. (= Publications of the literature commission for Westphalia, series of texts. Volume 3). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89528-498-X .

Web links

• Katharina Sibylla Schücking in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors