Lili Schönemann

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Lili Schönemann
Memorial plaque in Offenbach

Anna Elisabeth Schönemann (born June 23, 1758 in Offenbach am Main ; † May 6, 1817 in Krautergersheim in Alsace) married. von Türckheim went down in literary history as Goethe's fiancée "Lili".

Life

Lili Schönemann was the daughter of a wealthy Frankfurt banker. Her mother came from the noble Huguenot family d'Orville , who together with the Bernard family ran a Princely Isenburgsche privileged snuff factory in Offenbach am Main. A large part of the following love story, which Goethe describes in detail in the 17th book of his autobiography " Poetry and Truth ", took place in Offenbach am Main, which at that time was a rural idyll at the gates of Frankfurt. Goethe had met the musical sixteen-year-old at a house concert of the Schönemann family in Frankfurt am Main and became engaged to her in the spring of 1775. Both had a peculiar love affair, which one can easily read from Goethe's poem 'Lilis Park':

No menagerie is as colorful as my Lili hers!
She has the most wonderful animals in it
And get it in, don't even know how
All the poor princes
In love agony that has never been erased!

A little later, Goethe, who otherwise strictly avoided mentioning his love affairs in texts by their true name, becomes clearer:

She strokes his back with her little foot;
He thinks he is in paradise.
How all seven senses itch him!
And she - looks very relaxed.
I kiss your shoes, chew on the soles,
I lift myself up very gently and swing myself stealthily
Softly on her knee - on the favorable day
Let it happen and scratch my ears. (...)
But she also has a bottle of balsam fire
No earth is like honey
What will she once softened, of love and loyalty,
About the sore lips of their monster
Brush a droplet with your fingertip.
Lili von Türckheim born Schönemann with her family in 1789

After six months, both marriage vows were broken again, because the parents' houses were opposed to the connection and Goethe himself soon felt that Lili was restricting his life plans. Nevertheless, he could not forget Lili all his life (as can be read in “ Poetry and Truth ”), and on his first trip to Italy he even took her portrait in a medallion around her neck across the Alps. At the age of 80, Goethe revealed to his confidante Friedrich Soret “ Lili was the first one I loved deeply and truly, and maybe she was the last. "

Three years after separating from Goethe, Schönemann married the banker Freiherrn Bernhard von Türckheim (Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim), who later became mayor of Strasbourg and then president of the consistory there. Threatened by Jacobin rule during the French Revolution in 1793 , the family had to flee. Disguised as a farmer, Lili reached the German border with her children. During her emigration she lived in Erlangen for some time , where her extremely strong character proved to be the mainstay of the family. She later returned to Strasbourg.

At the beginning of the 19th century there was another brief exchange of letters with Goethe when she asked him, albeit in vain, for his protection for a young acquaintance. Lili Schönemann went down in literary history as a role model for two women from Goethe, Stella and Dorothea . In Offenbach am Main, the Lili Temple and Lili Park in particular are a reminder of what is happening.

She is buried with her husband in the private chapel of the von Türckheims in Krautergersheim .

  • Bernard Frédéric de Turckheim, husband of Lili von Turckheim

  • Lili von Türckheim (1780)

  • Lili Temple , Offenbach. The 25-year-old Goethe strolled here in the summer of 1775 with the 16-year-old banker's daughter Anna Elisabeth ("Lili") Schönemann.

See also

literature

  • Max Koch :  Türckheim, Anna Elisabet v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 2-6.
  • Friederike and Lili. Five Goethe essays by Dr. Albert Bielschowsky. With an obituary and the author's portrait . Beck, Munich 1906
  • Franz Servaes : Goethe's Lili . Women's life - a collection of descriptions of the lives of outstanding women, Volume 18. Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1916
  • John Ries (ed.): The letters of Elise von Türckheim, b. Schönemann. Goethe's Lili . In: Frankfurter Lebensbilder Volume 7. Englert and Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main 1924
  • Tobias Picard: Schönemann, Anna Elisabeth . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . , P. 325 f.
  • Jules Keller: From the everyday life of a Frankfurt Goethe friend: unpublished letters from Anna Elisabeth Schönemann, née d'Orville, to her daughter Lili in Strasbourg (1778 - 1782) . In: Contacts . Série 3, Études et documents 40, Lang, Bern 1997 ISBN 3-906754-90-1
  • Dagmar von Gersdorff: Goethe's first great love Lili Schönemann , Inselverlag, Frankfurt 2002 ISBN 3-458-19229-8
  • Lili Schönemann, Krautergersheim, Goethe . In: Famous Frankfurt women by Edith Dörken. Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt 2008 ISBN 978-3-87476-557-2

Web links

Commons : Anna Elisabeth Schönemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death certificate  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Les Archives Départementales du Bas-Rhin@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / etat-civil.bas-rhin.fr  
personal data
SURNAME Schönemann, Lili
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönemann, Anna Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Fiancee of Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1817
Place of death Krautergersheim