Sophie Sander

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Sophie Sander b. Diederichs (born October 26, 1768 in Pyrmont , † March 21, 1828 in Berlin ) was a German salonnière .

Life

Sophie Sander was the youngest daughter of the Hanoverian well inspector Diederichs in Bad Pyrmont. She received a careful upbringing and lived her youth alternately in Bad-Pyrmont and Hanover .

Her beauty, charm, and witty irony were noticed early on. After living as a single woman for a long time, she married the publisher Johann Daniel Sander in 1795 , through whom she made many contacts with young writers.

Sophie Sander quickly managed - at the suggestion of her husband - to set up her own literary salon, which in the 1800s was primarily attended by authors who were under contract with her husband. The salon was founded on the initiative of Daniel Sanders, who wanted to turn his house into a meeting place for Berlin scholars and writers, but pretty, lively and quick-witted Sophie soon became the focus of the salon.

Between 1800 and 1806, then again around 1810, the Sanders' salon at 23 Breiten Strasse was of great importance for Berlin's early romanticism . Sophie Sander's salon was the first educated bourgeois salon maintained by a woman who was not of Jewish origin.

She received other well-known salons such as Rahel Levin and the poets of the " North Star League ". The godparents of her daughter Emilie, who was born in 1801, included Goethe , whom Sophie Sander had met in Leipzig and with whom she corresponded, and Jean Paul , who had been her guest and who held her in high regard.

The heyday of the Sanders' salon was already in the past in 1805. The publishing house's business problems, which got worse with the defeat of Prussia in 1806, led to severe psychological problems for Johann Daniel Sander, who was first admitted to an asylum in the same year. To get another source of income, Sophie Sander opened a boarding school for girls in 1809. In 1810 she tried to revive her former sociable salon, but could not build on her old successes.

Habitués

The guests of the Sanders included u. a. the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , Heinrich von Kleist , Karl August Böttiger , Friedrich Schlegel , Clemens Brentano , Johannes von Müller , Johann Friedrich Zöllner , Carl Friedrich Zelter , Adam Heinrich Müller , Johann PF Ancillon , Franz Theremin , Adelbert von Chamisso , August Wilhelm Schlegel , Goethe and Jean Paul . She was friends with Joachim Heinrich Campe and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and was in correspondence with Heinrich von Kleist, Adam Heinrich Müller, Zacharias Werner and Johann Gottfried Herder , as well as his wife Maria Karoline Flachsland .

Due to an unfavorable report by Ludwig Geiger about Sophie Sander, her salon in the reception area is behind the literary salons of Henriette Herz and Rahel Levin .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelmy Dollinger: Berlin salons . Berlin 2000, p. 82
  2. ↑ Detlef Gaus: Sociability and sociable . Weimar / Stuttgart 1998, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diederichs, Sophie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salonnière
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1828
Place of death Berlin