Magdalena Sibylla Rieger
Magdalena Sibylla Rieger (born December 29, 1707 in Maulbronn , † December 31, 1786 in Stuttgart ) was a German poet of Pietism .
Life
Magdalena Sibylla Rieger was born as Magdalena Sibylla Weißensee. Her father, Philipp Heinrich Weißensee, was a page preceptor in Stuttgart and provided her with extensive training. a. in music and poetry. Magdalena Sibylla Rieger spent part of her childhood in Blaubeuren , as her father had found employment there as a prelate. To what extent her mother Maria Dorothea geb. Writer in education has not yet been researched. Like her father, Magdalena Sibylla Rieger also served at the Stuttgart court: She was a maid until she married Blaubeurer Vogt Emmanuel Rieger in 1723 at the age of 16, with whom she had numerous children. In 1730 she and Rieger moved to Calw for a year , then to Stuttgart. She began to write in Calw. In spite of severe and recurring headaches, she wrote 67 poems on the pericopes of the church year and an autobiography (1742). In 1743 it was granted a privilege by Emperor Charles VI. awarded by the University of Göttingen as "Imperial Poet" after her doctor, Dr. Wilhelm Triller, had published a first anthology of her poems without her knowledge. In the same year she also became a member of the German Society in Göttingen as "poeta laureata". In 1746 a second volume of poetry was published. 1772, she was the only woman in the Württembergische scholarly lexicon of Johann Jakob Moser added.
Afterlife
One of the songs by Magdalena Sibylla Rieger is still represented in the Protestant hymn book for Württemberg, albeit in a different form. It bears the number 588 and the title My soul in the cave is looking for you in the dark light . Lion Feuchtwanger portrayed her in his novel Jud Suss as the secret lover of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer and as mistress of the Duke of Württemberg. However, this cannot be proven. A connection to Oppenheimer and the Duke existed through Magdalena Sibylla's father, who was abbot in Hirsau from 1727 and had to mediate between Oppenheimer and the Duke.
In the film Friedrich Schiller - The Triumph of a Genius (1940) she is embodied by Dagny Servaes .
literature
- Linda Maria Koldau , Women - Music - Culture. A manual on the German-speaking area of the early modern period , Böhlau 2005, ISBN 978-3412245054 , p. 413
- Uli Rothfuss , Authors Books Calw. A thousand years of literary and intellectual history in Calw and Hirsau , Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3874073831 , p. 26
- Theodor Schott : Rieger, Magdalene Sibylle . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 545 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rothfuss calls him Philip Friedrich, ADB, Koldau and other sources use the name mentioned in the article.
- ↑ Cf. Cornelia Niekus Moore: Magdalena Sibylla Rieger, "the poetic wife" , in: Ulrich Gäbler / Udo Sträter (eds.): Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism . Festschrift for Johannes Wallmann. Vol. 21, pp. 218-231. Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-55893-7 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ So Rothfuss, according to ADB he was prelate and consistorial councilor.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rieger, Magdalena Sibylla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rieger, Magdalene Sibylle; Weißensee, Magdalena Sibylla (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maulbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1786 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |