Christiana Mariana from Ziegler

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Christiana Mariana from Ziegler. Engraving by Martin Bernigeroth , 1728.
Christiana Mariana from Ziegler. Copper engraving by Georg Daniel Heumann.
Medal on the occasion of her coronation as "Poeta laureata" by Andreas Vestner

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler ( born Christiana Mariana Romanus ; born June 28, 1695 in Leipzig , † May 1, 1760 in Frankfurt an der Oder ) was a German writer at the time of the Enlightenment .

Life

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler was the first of eight children of the lawyer Franz Conrad Romanus and his wife Christiana Maria, geb. Grunt. The father became mayor of the city of Leipzig in 1701 and was one of the patrons of Georg Philipp Telemann , who lived in Leipzig between 1701 and 1704. The arrest of the father for embezzlement and counterfeiting (which was never proven or clarified) shaped the eleven-year-old girl, even if the good reputation of the family was not lost under the imprisonment of the father. Franz Conrad Romanus died in prison in 1746 without an official verdict against him. Six of her siblings died during this difficult time.

At the age of only 16, possibly also to avoid the poor financial situation of the fatherless family, Christiana Mariana Romanus married Heinrich Levin von Koenitz, which made her rise to the rank of lower nobility. However, the husband died in 1712 shortly after the birth of their child Johanna Mariana Henriette von Koenitz. She remarried in 1715 and moved with her second husband, Captain George Friedrich von Ziegler, to his Gut Eckartsleben estate near Erfurt . The second daughter Carolina Augusta Louisa von Ziegler was born in 1716. Georg Friedrich von Ziegler died around 1722, and shortly afterwards both of his daughters, probably due to an epidemic.

Ziegler's literary productivity began soon after these personal blows of fate. She returned to Leipzig to her mother in the Romanushaus . Her financial circumstances there now allowed her to lead a self-determined, independent life. After the period of mourning, she founded one of the first literary-musical salons in Germany in this house , which became a “meeting place for citizens, scholars and artists”. Her salon became important for two prominent Leipzig guests after it was founded: for Johann Sebastian Bach , Thomaskantor in Leipzig since 1723 , who soon after (1725) set and performed nine of her sacred cantatas , and Johann Christoph Gottsched , who came to Leipzig in 1724 and a year later he founded the weekly Moral Weekly The Reasonable Tadlerinnen , in which von Ziegler published articles under the pseudonyms Silere, de Rose and Clarimene von Lindenheim . In 1728 the cantata texts were published together with other poems in Leipzig, a second part followed in 1729. In 1730 the bricklayer became the first and only female member of Gottsched's “German Society” in Leipzig. Twice, in 1732 and 1734, she received the Poetry Prize there, which was awarded annually. On October 17, 1733, she received the imperially privileged poet's crown of a " Poeta laureata " from the University of Wittenberg . Her last work appeared six years later.

In November 1741 Christiana Mariana von Ziegler married the professor of history, nature and international law Wolf Balthasar Adolf von Steinwehr , with whom she moved to Frankfurt an der Oder. In literary terms, she then went public with translations. She died in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1760 at the age of 64.

Works

Nine cantata texts for Johann Sebastian Bach

The Bach Works Directory (BWV) by Wolfgang Schmieder , written 1945–1950, contains the following cantatas based on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler. All were performed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in 1725. Since Bach came to Leipzig in 1723, a collaboration with him could only have arisen in the two years after the loss of her husband and daughters (1722).

Other works

Translations
  • Mad. Scudéry Insane conversations about things that belong to a decent performance [...] Leipzig, 1735.
  • Treatise on the righteous nature of Mr. Chevalier de Meré [...] In: The German Society in Leipzig own writings and translations [...] The third part, Leipzig 1739.
  • Thoughts of Abbot Trublêt on various things that belong to erudition and ethics […] 2 parts, Greifswald 1744.

Honors

  • 1730 admission as the first and only woman in Gottsched's “German Society” in Leipzig.
  • 1732 and 1734 "Prize of Poetry"
  • October 17, 1733 imperially privileged poet's crown of a "Poeta laureata" from the University of Wittenberg

literature

  • Gisela Brinker-Gabler (ed.): German poets from the 16th century to the present . Poems and résumés (= Fischer pocket books. 1994). Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-21994-9 , pp. 113-121.
  • Christine Wolter : Mariane or Immortality. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-936618-42-9 .
  • Christian Geltinger :  Ziegler, Christiane Mariane from. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1584-1588.
  • Susanne Schneider: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760). In: Kerstin Merkel, Heide Wunder (Hrsg.): German women of the early modern times. Poets, painters, patrons. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt 2000, pp. 139–152.
  • Ulrich Konrad , Aspects of musical-theological understanding in Mariane von Ziegler's and Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata So far, you haven't asked anything in my name, BWV 87. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 57 (2000), Heft 3, pp. 199–221.
  • Sabine Koloch: Recognition under the sign of the Enlightenment. On the creation of the medal for the poetic coronation of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, offered by the medalists Vestner in her Nuremberg publishing house , in: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 42 (2015), pp. 199–220.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae from Susanne Schneider: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760). In: German Women of the Early Modern Age , 2000, pp. 141–143.
  2. ↑ Susanne Schneider, in: German women of the early modern times , 2000, pp. 144f.
  3. ↑ Susanne Schneider, in: German women of the early modern times 2000, pp. 144–145.
  4. ^ Philippe Lesage: Anna Magdalena Bach et l'entourage féminin de Jean-Sébastien Bach . Editions Papillon Geneva 2011, ISBN 978-2-940310-43-2 , appendix.
  5. ↑ Susanne Schneider 2000, footnote 6, p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Christiana Mariana from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romanus, Christiana Mariana (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1760
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)