Marie Hassenpflug

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Marie Hassenpflug, 1812

Marie Magdalene Elisabeth Hassenpflug (* December 27, 1788 in Altenhaßlau ; † November 21, 1856 in Kassel ), married von Dalwigk von Schaumburg , was an important source of fairy tales for the collection of children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm .

Life

Marie was the daughter of Johannes Hassenpflug (1755-1834) and Marie Magdalena Dresen (born September 28, 1767 in Hanau ; † December 19, 1840 in Kassel), who came from a Huguenot emigrant family resident in Hanau , and was a sister of the Kurhessische Interior and Justice Minister Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862). When her father, Johannes Hassenpflug, became mayor of Hanauer Neustadt in 1789 , the family moved into an apartment in "Haus Amsterdam", later " Haus Lossow ", a representative half-timbered building on the southwest corner of the market square . The family was friends with the Grimm family, whose father, Philipp Wilhelm Grimm , was the clerk of the city and the office of Büchertal . In 1799 the Hassenpflug family moved to Kassel, where Johannes Hassenpflug moved to the financial administration of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel .

Marie Hassenpflug married Friedrich von Dalwigk zu Schauenburg on August 21, 1814 , who was stationed in Hanau as captain of the Kurprinz regiment . In the following time she lived on her husband's estate in Hoof (now a part of Schauenburg ) and in Hanau. Her son, Ludwig Alexander, was born here on January 24, 1817.

From 1819 to 1824 she had a position as lady-in-waiting to Duchess Marie Friederike von Anhalt-Bernburg , a daughter of the Landgrave and later Elector Wilhelm IX./I. from Hessen-Kassel. Her husband was chamberlain to the Duchess at the same time . During this time they lived in the Hanau City Palace . They then lived in Kassel.

Literary meaning

Marie Hassenpflug wrote a number of fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm reproduced in the children's and house fairy tales (KHM) they wrote : Little Brother and Sister (KHM 11), Little Red Riding Hood (KHM 26), The Girl Without Hands (KHM 31), The robber groom (KHM 40), Daumerling's wandering (KHM 45), Sleeping Beauty (KHM 50), The Water Mermaid (KHM 79), The Golden Key (KHM 200), Phoenix Bird (KHM 75a), The Blacksmith and the Devil (KHM 81a ), The Frog Prince (KHM 99a), the text fragment Princess with the Louse , perhaps also Snow White (KHM 53).

See also

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literature

  • Heiner Boehncke: Marie Hassenpflug: a storyteller of the Brothers Grimm . Darmstadt 2013. ISBN 978-3-8053-4536-1

Other sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Ruf: The beauty from the glass coffin - Snow White's fairytale and real life , p. 19, Königshausen & Neumann, 1995, ISBN 3-88479-967-3
personal data
SURNAME Hassenpflug, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassenpflug, Marie Magdalene Elisabeth; Dalwigk von der Schaumburg, Marie Magdalene Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenhaßlau
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1856
Place of death kassel