Louise Brachmann
Karoline Louise Brachmann (pseudonyms "Klarfeld", "Sternheim", "Louise B.") (born February 9, 1777 in Rochlitz ; † September 17, 1822 in Halle / Saale ) was a German writer .
Life
Karoline Louise Brachmann was born as the daughter of the district secretary Christian Paul Brachmann and his wife Friederike Louise geb. Vollhard born in Rochlitz . Due to the transfer of his father, Brachmann lived next to Rochlitz in Döbeln , Kölleda and from 1787 in Weißenfels . The mother, an educated pastor's daughter, taught her children herself.
In Weißenfels, Brachmann met the siblings Sidonie and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) . Novalis brokered the publication of some of Brachmann's poems in Schiller's Horen and his Musenalmanach for 1798 and 1799. Schiller also acted as editor for a small volume of her poems.
At the age of twenty-three she attempted suicide for defamation . After her parents, sister and childhood friends of the Hardenbergs died in the years that followed, she tried to make a living by writing and was forced to write a lot. In doing so, she often made a stylized Middle Ages with correspondingly stereotypical knight figures , as they were popular at that time, the topic. She was supported in her work by Friedrich Schiller , Sophie Mereau and Clemens Brentano as well as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué . Her insecure existence, literary failures and lack of artistic recognition repeatedly led to depressive attacks. Adolf Müllner characterized them as "German Sappho". After an unhappy love affair, the 45-year-old drowned herself in the Saale.
Works
- Lyric poems , 1800
- Eudora , 1804
- Poems by Louise Brachmann , Dessau and Leipzig, 1808
- Time and love, u. a. Poems, in: Taschenbuch für das 1816, ed. St. Schütze, Frankfurt a. M. (1815)
- Romantic flowers. Stories , 1817
- The judgment of God. Knight's poem in five songs , 1818
- Percival , in WG Becker's pocket book on sociable pleasure , 1818
- Novellas , 1819
- Descriptions from reality. Novellas , 1820
- Short stories and little novels , 1822
- Romantic leaves , 1823
- Aberrations or the Power of Relations , 1823
- (published from the estate :) Auserlesene Dichtungen , ed. by FKJ Schütz, 2 vols., 1824
- (published from the estate :) Exquisite stories and short stories , ed. from KL Methuselah Müller, 4 vols., 1826
The estate of Karoline Louise Brachmann is in the Weißenfels Museum.
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Brachmann, Luise . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 157-159.
- Adalbert Elschenbroich: Brachmann, Karoline Louise. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 502 ( digitized version ).
- Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 39 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Louise Brachmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical message in: Wanderwelt-Mittel Sachsen
- Louise Brachmann is a guest as a historical writer (from minutes 28: 05–59: 00) on Marith Vinzenz's literary show Writers Today and Yesterday
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brachmann, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brachmann, Karoline Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 1822 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |