Marie von Thurn and Taxis

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Marie von Thurn und Taxis (born December 28, 1855 in Venice as Princess Marie Elisabeth Karoline zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst ; died February 16, 1934 in Lautschin ) was a German patroness .

Life

The princess of the noble family of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was born in Venice in 1855 . She was one of five children of Egon Karl Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (July 4, 1819 - January 11, 1865) and Therese Maria Beatrix Countess von Thurn-Hofer and Valsassina (June 12, 1817 - November 4, 1893). She enjoyed a high level of cultural education and was fluent in six languages.

In 1876 she married Prince Alexander von Thurn und Taxis from the Bohemian line of the Thurn und Taxis family , with whom she had three children: Erich, Eugen and Alexander, known as Pascha.

She collected works of art, made acquaintances with artists and ran an exclusive salon in Paris. She was known to the museum expert Wilhelm von Bode , the actress Eleonora Duse , the ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky , the poet Anna de Noailles , the philosopher Rudolf Kassner , the historian Horatio Brown.

In 1909, through de Noailles and Kassner, she met the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and in 1910 lodged him at her castle in the Bohemian town of Lautschin. With the insecure poet she went on educational trips to Weimar . He dedicated his Duinese elegies to the strict but generous patroness , which he began while he was staying at her Duino Castle on the Adriatic coast from 1911 to 1912 .

After the poet's death, she published her memories of friendship, which were translated into numerous languages. She died in 1934 at her Lautschin Castle.

plant

  • From Emperor Huang-Li: Fairy Tales for Adult Children. Berlin 1922.
  • Memories of Rainer Maria Rilke . Munich 1932.

Web links

Genealogical website on geneall.net

literature

  • Marie von Thurn and Taxis - Hohenlohe: Memories of Rainer Maria Rilke . Berlin 1933.
  • Ernst Zinn: Correspondence (Rainer Maria Rilke and Marie von Thurn and Taxis). Zurich 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heimo Schwilk: Rilke and the women. Munich / Berlin 2015. ISBN 9783492970259
  2. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 467.
personal data
SURNAME Thurn and Taxis, Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Marie zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and patroness
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1934
Place of death Lautschin