Rebecca Friedländer

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Frédéric-Christophe d'Houdetot: Rebecca Friedländer, Berlin 1807.

Regina Frohberg (author's name; also: Regine Frohberg , actually: Rebecca Salomo (n) , married Rebecca Friedländer , later: Rebecca Saaling ; *  October 4, 1783 in Berlin ; †  August 30, 1850 in Vienna ) was a writer and friend of Rahel Varnhagen .

Life

The daughter of the wealthy Jewish merchant Salomon Jacob (1735–1788) and Cheile, b. Eger received a careful education for its time. Around 1800 it appeared in Berlin as a Salonnière and organized tea parties known as "Aesthetic Teas". In 1801 Rebecca Friedländer entered into a marriage of convenience with the banker and merchant Moses Friedländer (1774-1840), a son of David Friedländer , who divorced in 1805. After the failure of her marriage, she converted to the Protestant faith and, like her two sisters, took the name Saaling. In 1808 she anonymously published her debut novel Louise or Filial Obedience and Love in Quarrel . Rebecca Friedländer lived in Vienna from 1813, where she soon made contact with the local aristocratic society around Fanny von Arnstein and Bernhard von Eskeles and died in 1850.

"Pain of love"

Rebecca Friedländer has published numerous novels and short stories , some of which have had multiple editions. She can be regarded as one of the first German women writers of Jewish origin. She also translated and edited numerous dramas from French and published poems and essays in magazines such as the "Mode-Journal" by Friedrich Justin Bertuch , the magazine "Feierstunden" published by Biedenfeld and Kuffner and the " Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater" and fashion ”.

Many of her novels and stories take place in an aristocratic setting and combine love stories with complicated entanglements. A special feature for contemporary readers was her second anonymously published novel, Pain of Love . In this key novel , Rebecca Friedländer processed the current gossip from the Jewish community in Berlin, which she transferred to a fictional aristocratic society. One of the people portrayed in this way was her friend Rahel Varnhagen.

Rebecca Friedländer and Rahel Varnhagen were connected by a friendship that had consisted of an intensive correspondence since 1805. A total of 158 letters from Rahel Varnhagen to Rebecca Friedländer have survived, while Rebecca Friedländer asked Rahel Varnhagen for her letters back in old age and then burned them. Both women succeeded in at least partially freeing themselves from the traditional patriarchal family patterns and at the same time working effectively for the emancipation of Jews in society. The friendship ended when Rahel Varnhagen recognized herself in Rebecca Friedländer's novel Pain of Love in the character of the Baroness Charlotte von Willingshausen, whose character is not very flattering drawn by Countess Arberg, who bears the features of the author:

In her utterances about people and human conditions, she was harsh and cutting. She could be interested in big world events with warmth, speak with enthusiasm of literature and art; but everything that happened in society left her indifferent. What she called being true was often only bitterness in her heart, which arose from various experiences and accidents, stamped her whole being with bile, as it were.

Rahel Varnhagen's husband Karl August Varnhagen von Ense published (pseudonym) a sharp criticism of the novel, while Rahel Varnhagen stopped correspondence with Rebecca Friedländer. Four years after its first publication, the second edition of Pain of Love appeared , in which Rebecca Friedländer now appeared under her pseudonym Regina Frohberg.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Louise or filial obedience and love in dispute (1808)
  • Pain of love (1810)
  • Stories (1811)
  • Maria or The Consequences of the First Misstep (1812)
  • The Sacrifice (1812)
  • Representations from human life (1814)
  • The bride and groom or guilt and nobility (1814)
  • Determination (1814)
  • The Vow (1816)
  • Treason and Loyalty (1816)
  • Gustav Sterning. The Storm (1817)
  • Autumn flowers (1817)
  • Little Novels (1819)
  • Pride and love (1820)
  • Renunciation (1824)
  • The Return (1824)
  • Love's Fights (1826)
  • The Departure (1830)
  • Own and others guilt (1837)
  • Past and Future (1840)
  • Thought Fruits on the Path of Life (autobiographical, 1842)

Dramas

  • The busy one - comedy based on Il veut tout faire by Collin d'Harleville (1812)
  • How to Pay Your Debt - Comedy based on Les Étourdis by François Andrieux (1815)
  • The unexpected meeting or: This is how a German takes revenge - comedy based on a French vaudeville (1815)
  • Uncle and Nephew - Comedy after Les Femmes by Charles-Albert Demoustier (1816)
  • The young man of 60 years - comedy based on the French (1826)
  • Age and youth - comedy based on Le Vieillard et les jeunes gens by Collin d'Harlevielle (n.d.)
  • The Page and the Pasquill (undated)
  • Rosalie or she thinks differently - comedy based on the French (no year)
  • The sons-in-law - comedy, freely adapted after Charles-Guillaume Étienne (n.d.)

Rebecca Friedländer's plays were published in 1817 and 1818 under the title Theater in two volumes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Friedländer had two sisters. Marianne Saaling worked as a writer and is said to have briefly been engaged to August Varnhagen von Ense after Rahel Varnhagen's death. Julie Saaling, married. Heyse, was the mother of the poet Paul Heyse .
  2. ↑ Paul Heyse draws a very critical picture of his aunt in his childhood memories and confessions (especially in the chapter My Parents' House ), in which he also refers to her connections to the aristocracy of Austria.
  3. ↑ Rebecca Friedländer: Pain of Love . Salfeld, Berlin 1810, p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Rebecca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regine Frohberg; Regina Frohberg; Rebecca Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1850
Place of death Vienna