Sibylla Schwarz

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Sibylla Schwarz (representation: German poetic poems. 1650 )

Sibylla Schwarz , even Sibylle Schwartz (* February 14 . Jul / 24. February  1621 greg. In Greifswald , † July 31 jul. / 10. August  1638 greg. Ibid), was a German poet .

life and work

Sibylla Schwarz's house at Baderstrasse 2 in Greifswald

Sibylla Schwarz grew up as the youngest daughter of Greifswald's mayor Christian Schwarz . Initially, her living conditions were largely carefree until the effects of the Thirty Years' War reached Greifswald in 1627 and her mother suddenly died in 1630. She started writing poetry when she was about ten years old. Her poetry reflects the hard time in the midst of the Thirty Years War, of which she never saw the beginning or the end. Greifswald was then occupied first by Wallenstein , later by the Swedes . Friendship, love, war and death were important themes in her work. They prove their education, unusual for a girl of the time. She knew Martin Opitz , whose book from Deutsche Poeterey served her as a model for metrics and form. In 1638 she suddenly fell ill with dysentery and died at the age of 17 on the wedding day of her older sister, to whom her last poem is dedicated.

Her poems were published posthumously in 1650 by her teacher Samuel Gerlach under the title German Poetische Gedichte in two parts, each comprising over 100 poems. Some songs have also been recorded in hymn books. For a while she was known as "the Pomeranian Sappho ", but was forgotten in the 18th century . It was not until the 19th century that literary research became aware of Sibylla Schwarz again as one of the few women in baroque poetry . In 1980 a photomechanical reprint of the book published in 1650 was published, which serves as a source for research. In January 2021, the first volume of the critical complete edition was published by Reinecke & Voß .

Her long poem "A song against envy" was regarded by Erika Greber as "probably the first uncompromisingly feminist poem in world literature".

Original home

The poet's house in Greifswald has been preserved to this day, but is in danger of deteriorating due to lack of maintenance. The Greifswald citizens were therefore considering expropriating the house owner Cornelius Siller from Göppingen in order to preserve the house at Baderstraße 2. Since the responsible Interior Ministry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania advised against this measure, a repair and modernization requirement was chosen for Baderstrasse 2. The bid is intended to oblige the owner to renovate the facade and secure the house permanently. The bid has not yet come into force. The house continues to deteriorate.

On June 8, 2019, the owner Cornelius Siller and on June 14, Sonja Gelinek from the Sibylla Schwarz Association signed a letter of intent. A long-term lease agreement for the entire house would be concluded between Siller and the association in order to set up a Sibylla Schwarz center with reading archive and a café on the ground floor.

reception

The Berthold Leibinger Foundation awarded its 20,000 euro comic prize for 2020 to the illustrator Max Baitinger . In his award-winning volume “Sibylla”, which is due to appear on the occasion of the protagonist's 400th birthday in February 2021, he takes up the story of the Greifswald poet Sibylla Schwarz, playing with different levels of text and time.

Literature (selection)

Work editions

  • Sibylla Schwarz: works, letters, documents. Critical edition , Vol. 1: Letters, sonnets, lyric pieces, hymns, odes, epigrams and short poems, Fretow poetry. Edited by Michael Gratz, Reinecke & Voß , Leipzig 2021, ISBN 978-3-942901-42-0 .
  • Sibylla Schwarz: Is love a pleasure, who then brings the complaint? Reinecke & Voß, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-942901-21-5 .
  • Sibylla Schwarz: The disdainful doing of the world. Ed. Horst Langer. Buch.macher, Mesekenhagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-935039-64-2 .
  • Sibylle Schwarz: German poetic poems. Facsimile print after the edition from 1650. Edited and with an afterword by Helmut W. Ziefle. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1980.
  • Sibyllen Schwarzin Vohn Greiffswald from Pomerania German poetic poems, Nuhn For the first time given out and published in addition to her own handwriting. Danzig 1650 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Digitized prints by Sibylla Schwarz in the catalog of the Herzog August Library .

Secondary literature

  • Guido K. Brand : The early completed. A contribution to the history of literature . Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co. 1929 [1928]. Pp. 26-30.
  • Mirosława Czarnecka: Sibylla Schwarz (1621–1638) and her self-image as an author. In: Silesia Nova, Yearbook for Culture and History 2020, Dresden: Neisse Verlag 2021. ISBN 978-3-86276-308-5
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Sibylle Schwarz , in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 5. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 3895–3896 (list of works and references). ISBN 3-7772-9133-1
  • Jörg-Ulrich Fechner:  Black, Sibylle. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 800 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Petra Ganzenmueller: Against the facelessness of women. Female self-confidence at the beginning of the 17th century using the example of Sibylle Schwarz. Diss., Vancouver 1998.
  • Kurt Gassen : Sibylle Schwarz, a Pomeranian poet In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , Vol. 21 (1921), 1–108.
  • Ludwig Giesebrecht : About some poems by Sibylle Schwarz . Szczecin 1865.
  • Erika Greber : Text and paratext as paired text. Sibylle Schwarz and her editor. In: Frieder von Ammon, Herfried Vögel (Hrsg.): The pluralization of the paratext in the early modern times. Theory, forms, functions. Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1605-6 , pp. 19-43.
  • Susanne Gugrel-Steindl: Selected dramatic literature by Andreas Gryphius, Johann Christian Hallmann and Sibylle Schwarz. Diss., Vienna 1991.
  • Adolf Häckermann :  Black, Sibylla . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 248 f.
  • Tomasz Jabłecki: "I'm happy to keep writing / but my fist wants to cool down." Epigonality and originality in the occasional poem by Sibylla Schwarz. In: Silesia Nova, Yearbook for Culture and History 2020, Dresden: Neisse Verlag, 2021. ISBN 978-3-86276-308-5
  • Hans-Wolf Jäger : "The Pomeranian Sappho" Sibylla Schwarz (1621–1638). In: Holger Böning , Hans-Wolf Jäger, Andrzej Katny, Marian Szczodrowski (eds.): Danzig and the Baltic region. Language, literature, journalism. Bremen 2005, ISBN 978-3-9346-8627-4 , pp. 21-32.
  • Kalina Mróz-Jabłecka: Sibylla Schwarz in the funeral sermon by Christoph haben . The world of the learned maiden from the Greifswald city elite - a comparison with Breslau. In: Silesia Nova, Yearbook for Culture and History 2020, Dresden: Neisse Verlag 2021. ISBN 978-3-86276-308-5
  • Konrad Weiß:  Black, Sibylla. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1331-1337.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Helmut W. Ziefle: Sibylle Schwarz, life and works . Bonn 1975.

Web links

Wikisource: Sibylla Schwarz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Julke: Reinecke & Voss presents the first volume of the critical edition for the "Pomeranian Sappho". In: l-iz.de . December 26, 2020, accessed February 14, 2021 .
  2. ↑ A song again den Neidt , in "Sibylle Schwarzin Vohn Greiffswald from Pomerania German poetic poems", archive.org
  3. ↑ quoted from Michael Gratz's comments on Sibylla Schwarz If love is lust, who then brings the complaint
  4. ↑ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Only facade maintenance on the monument house? In: Ostsee-Zeitung . June 3, 2016, accessed February 14, 2021 . Inactive homeowners: municipalities want to remove eyesore. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. June 28, 2016, accessed February 14, 2021 .
  5. ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Association calls for more commitment from the Greifswald administration. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. July 5, 2018, accessed February 14, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Greifswald: Sibylla-Schwarz-Haus decays. In: NDR - Nordmagazin . March 26, 2019, archived from the original on March 28, 2019 ; accessed on February 14, 2021 .
  7. ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Rescue for Greifswald Black House? In: Ostsee-Zeitung. June 20, 2019, accessed February 14, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Heike Drescher: Preview from the home office: Sibylla. In: reprodukt.com . April 3, 2020, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Brigitte Diefenbacher: The comic book award 2020 goes to: “Sibylla” by Max Baitinger. In: stiftungen.org . Retrieved February 14, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Black, Sibylla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Sibylle; Schwartz, Sibylle; Schwartz, Sibylla
SHORT DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1638
Place of death Greifswald