Marie Kurz

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Marie Kurz
Gravestone in Tübingen

Marie Kurz (born August 6, 1826 in Ulm as Eva Maria Freiin von Brunnow ; † June 26, 1911 in Munich ) was a socialist ("Rote Marie") and pacifist . She was the wife of the writer, publicist and translator Hermann Kurz and the mother of the writer Isolde Kurz and the sculptor Erwin Kurz .

Life

Marie Kurz's parents were Colonel August Freiherr von Brunnow (* Königsberg in East Prussia 1781, † Obereßlingen 1850) and Wilhelmine Freifrau von Brunnow, nee. Noble von Oetinger (* Stuttgart 1794; † Dätzingen 1843). Their paternal grandfather, Colonel Heinrich Reinhard Ritter and Edler von Oetinger, Herr auf Hohlach near Uffenheim and Archshofen (* Stuttgart 1738; † Rottweil 1796, apparently due to suicide due to excessive indebtedness), was notably a nephew of the pietistic Masonic-friendly prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , who in his social utopia Die Güldene Zeit (1759–1761) pleaded for more freedom, equality and humanity and was depicted in his most famous portrait, made by Georg Adam Eger, in 1775 with the three great lights of Freemasonry, the Bible, compasses and square measure; In addition, Heinrich Reinhard Ritter and Edler von Oetinger was a brother of the Stuttgart Freemason and radical Enlightenment Illuminati Eberhard Christoph Ritters and Edlen von Oetinger (1743-1805), who was related by marriage to Goethe through his wife Charlotte von Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten (1756–1823 ). This relationship between Marie Kurz and her great-great-great-uncle Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and his nephew Eberhard Christoph may have contributed to the progressive family tradition.

Eva Maria Freiin von Brunnow grew up in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg . After her family bought an estate in Oberesslingen , they moved there. She received an unusually comprehensive education for a woman of the 19th century. This made her a lover of literature and admirer of the ancient world . At the same time she was a pacifist and an early socialist . During the revolution of 1848/49 she was politically active in the democratic camp. She appeared as a revolutionary speaker and wrote political manifestos. In protest against the bourgeois dress code, she wore traditional peasant clothes during this period.

On February 23, 1848, she met the theologian and writer Hermann Kurz in Esslingen am Neckar , whom she married in 1851. The marriage resulted in four sons, including the radical socialist Edgar Conrad Kurz (* 1853; † 1904), the sculptor Erwin Kurz and the daughter Isolde, who later honored the life of Marie Kurz in my mother's literature.

"Miss. Kurz “gave up her title of nobility even before her marriage and took on the real name of her husband. In connection with her political activities, also together with her husband, this was considered an expression of a liberal, republican attitude. After the death of her husband, she moved to Italy, from where she did not return until 1910.

literature

  • Dora Schlatter : Marie Kurz [, née von Brunnow]. A picture of life ( From noble women ; 2). Reinhardt, Basel 1907 (with illustration at the age of 70).
  • Isolde Kurz : My mother . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1952 (reprint of the Tübingen edition 1926).
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 225 .
  • Matthias Slunitschek: Eva Maria Kurz, b. Freiin von Brunnow (1826–1911), called the red Marie. Revolutionary experience and life plan of a poetic activist . In: Actors of a Change. Men and women of the revolution of 1848/49. Vol. 5, ed. by Walter Schmidt, Fides, Berlin 2016, pp. 181–232.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See time travel bb. The Internet portal for the history and regional studies of the Boeblingen district. A project of the district media center Böblingen, supported by the district of Böblingen ; therein the article time travel bb - Herrenberg - personalities - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702 - 1782) . Author: Hans-Dieter Frauer. With an excellent, unabridged reproduction of the Oetinger portrait by Georg Adam Eger from 1775 in the Murrhardt town church. ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adv-boeblingen.de
  2. ↑ See Reinhard Breymayer : Prelate Oetinger's nephew Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger, in Stuttgart Freemason and Superior of the Illuminati, in Wetzlar a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice - was his wife, Charlotte, nee, related to Goethe. v. Barckhaus, a role model for Werther's "Fräulein von B .."? . 2nd, improved edition. Heck, Tübingen 2010, pp. 54–56; also Reinhard Breymayer: Goethe, Oetinger and no end. Charlotte Edle von Oetinger, née von Barckhaus-Wiesenhütten, as Werther "Fräulein von B .." Heck, Dusslingen 2012. - The statement handed down in the Kurz family that the father Wilhelmine von Brunnows, Friedrich Heinrich Erdmann Alexander Ritter and Edler von Oetinger ( * 1768; † Ellwangen 1812) have committed suicide because of excessive indebtedness, apparently based on a mix-up with his father. This can already be proven in the case of the genealogist Johann Christoph Klemm (1732–1808), a cousin of Heinrich Reinhard von Oetinger's by marriage, and then also of the influential genealogist Ferdinand Friedrich Faber (1789–1858).

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personal data
SURNAME In short, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunnow, Eva Marie von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblewoman, revolutionary 1848/49
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1911
Place of death Munich