Luise Reuter

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Luise Reuter, chalk drawing by Fritz Reuter
Luise Reuter
Tomb in Eisenach

Luise Charlotte Marie Reuter , also Louise R. (* October 9, 1817 in Grevesmühlen as Luise Charlotte Marie Kuntze , † June 9, 1894 in Eisenach ) was the wife of the poet and Low German writer Fritz Reuter .

Life

Luise Reuter was the second of eight children of the rector of the Grevesmühlen city school and later pastor in Roggenstorf , Wilhelm (Gottlieb Peter) Kuntze (1778–1863), and his wife Wilhelmine (Caroline Christine), nee. Scharff (1794-1859). The parents moved to Roggenstorf in 1818, where the father took over the pastoral office and exercised it until 1858.

As the eldest daughter, Luise had a variety of responsibilities in the large household. From 1834 to 1835 Luise Kuntze attended the Ernestinum in Lübeck . In April 1844 she then took up a position as a child educator with Pastor Friedrich Johann Augustin (1794–1862) in Rittermannshagen .

The Rust family, where Fritz Reuter worked, and the Augustin family were friends, so that Reuter and Luise Kuntze soon met. In May 1847 the two became engaged. They married on June 16, 1851 in the village church of Roggenstorf and moved to Treptow an der Tollense . Luise supported the household with piano and French lessons. Then they lived from April 1856 to 1863 in Neubrandenburg , where her husband rose to become a celebrated writer of national standing. Numerous letters to her best friend, the landowner's wife Marie Peters (1822–1897), with whom she corresponded for decades from 1856 onwards, provide deep insights into Luise's world of thought.

Having moved to Eisenach , the Reuters, who remained childless, had an Italian-style villa built below the Wartburg in 1866 , which is now the Reuter-Wagner Museum . When her husband died in 1874, she had an imposing tomb erected for him in Eisenach.

Luise Reuter outlived her husband by twenty years. Her role as the wife and administrator of Fritz Reuter's estate has been the subject of controversial discussion in Reuter literature for many decades, particularly with regard to his departure from Mecklenburg. Fritz Reuter had determined the following funeral motto for his wife: "She sown love in life, she should reap love in death" .

The brothers Heinrich (* 1816), Carl (* 1824) and Theodor (* 1828) emigrated to Australia in 1852. The brother Friedrich (* 1832) emigrated to South America in 1852. There is evidence that his brother Theodor Kuntze stayed in the USA in the 1890s.

Honors

In 1927 the Lowise-Reuter-Ring in the Berlin Hufeisensiedlung was named in her honor. In 1997 the village community center in Roggenstorf was named after Luise Reuter. A memorial stone south of the church in Grevesmühlen, erected around 1999 by the Grevesmühlen Heimatverein, commemorates them. In 2011, a street in the Reutershagen district of Rostock was named after Luise Reuter.

Letters

In the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin:

  • 5 letters from Luise Reuter to Ludwig Walesrode January 3, 1864 to July 9, 1867
  • 9 letters from Luise Reuter to various recipients ( Dethloff Carl Hinstorff , August Junkermann and others) July 9, 1867 to October 19, 1891
  • 4 letters written by Luise Reuter and signed by her with "Fritz Reuter" to various recipients February 3, 1871 to December 30, 1873
  • Promissory notes issued by Dethloff Carl Hinstorff to Luise Reuter and countersigned by her for book fees received from September 27, 1875 to October 19, 1891.

More letters from Luise Reuters in:

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luise Reuter. A self-portrait in letters . In: Reuter calendar . Leipzig, 1908. pp. 31-80.
  2. ^ Cf. Arnold Hückstädt : Fritz Reuter Briefe. Volume 3, pp. 535-536
  3. ↑ cf. Morgen-Journal, New York, No. 3111, March 8, 1899, p. 1: Inherited and do not know. Fritz Reuter's brother-in-law an abandoned man. Misfortune, hardship, privation his lot. Theodor Kuntze lived in Newark for a while. Now he is wanted on inheritance matters. Lost all his belongings in the great flooding of Johnstown, Pa.
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuter, Louise; Reuter, Luise Charlotte Marie (full name); Kuntze, Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the poet Fritz Reuter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevesmühlen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1894
Place of death Eisenach