Luise von Plönnies

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Luise von Ploennies

Luise von Plönnies (born Leisler ; born November 7, 1803 in Hanau , † January 22, 1872 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

Born in Hanau as the daughter of the natural scientist Philipp Achilles Leisler and his wife, born Sophie von Wedekind, Luise von Plönnies was brought up in the house of her grandfather, Georg Freiherr von Wedekind, from the age of 14. He concentrated her training on teaching foreign languages.

She married the doctor August von Plönnies in Darmstadt in 1824, with whom she had seven children. In the early 1840s, after traveling to Belgium, she began to study Flemish and Dutch literature, translating and writing a travelogue. For this she was accepted as a member of the Royal Academy in Brussels in 1845 , as well as the Literary Academy of Ghent and Antwerp. After the death of her husband in 1847, she then lived in Seeheim-Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse and finally back in Darmstadt from 1860. Among others, Louise von Gall frequented her literary salon .

Between 1844 and 1870 she published several editions of poems. Her love and landscape poems are to be emphasized; several were set to music by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe . She also wrote two biblical dramas, Mary Magdalene (1870) and David (1873). As a translator from English, Luise von Ploennies published two collections of poems: Britannia (1843) and English Poets (1867). Her poetry took up contemporary themes, while the epic poems took up subjects from the world of myths and legends. Their late dramas and poems finally processed biblical motifs.

Her son Wilhelm von Ploennies became a military writer, but also wrote a translation of the Kudrun and a humorous novel under the pseudonym Ludwig Siegrist.

Works

as an author

  • Dark pictures. Narrative. 1843.
  • Poems. 1844.
  • A wreath to the children. Poems. 1844.
  • Travel memories from Belgium. 1845.
  • Abelard and Heloise. A sonnet wreath. 1849.
  • Oskar and Gianetta. A sonnet wreath. 1850.
  • New poems. 1851.
  • Wittekind. Dramatic oratorio. 1852.
  • Maryken of Nimegen. Poetic epic. 1858.
  • The seven Ravens. Poems. 1862.
  • Sawitri. Drama. 1862.
  • Lilies in the field. Religious poetry. Lehmann, Leipzig 1864.
  • Ruth. Biblical poetry. 1864.
  • Joseph and his brothers. Epic poetry. 1866.
  • Mary of Bethany. New Testament poem. 1867.
  • Mary Magdalene. A spiritual drama in five acts. 1870.
  • Saint Elizabeth. Epic poem. 1870.
  • David. A biblical drama in five acts. 1874.
  • Sagas and legends with an appendix of mixed poems. 1874 (posthumously).
  • Two trees.

as a translator

  • Britannia. A selection of old and new English poems. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1878 (including 8 sonnets by William Shakespeare ).
  • A strange bouquet. Poems. 1845.
  • The legends of Belgium. 1846.
  • 19th century English poet. Fleischmann, Munich 1863.

literature

  • Necrologist. In: Our time. Leipzig 1872, pp. 134-135 digitized
  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures . 1st volume. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, pp. 284-290.
  • Franz Brümmer :  Plönnies, Luise von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 309 f.
  • Plönnies, Luise von . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, pp. 306f.
  • Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1919 (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4 ), p. 155f.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 236.
  • Gabriele Käfer-Dittmar: Luise von Ploennies 1803-1872. Approaching a forgotten poetess . Schlapp, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-87704-043-8 .
  • Norbert Bachleitner et al. (Ed.): Contributions to comparative literature and social history. Festschrift for Alberto Martino . Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 1997, ISBN 90-420-0294-8 , ( Chloe 26), p. 376 ff.

Web links

Wikisource: Luise von Ploennies  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 238 f.
  2. ↑ Cf. “I feel a wealth of love in my soul”. On the 150th anniversary of the death of Darmstadt writer Louise von Gall . In: Mathilde - women's newspaper for Darmstadt and the region . ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=1674
  4. ↑ Ploennies, Luise von . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, pp.  43–44 .
  5. ^ Translator of Shakespeare
personal data
SURNAME Plönnies, Luise von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plönnies, Louise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1872
Place of death Darmstadt