Sophie von Baudissin

Grave of Sophie von Baudissins in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden

Sophie Countess von Baudissin , b. Kaskel (born July 27, 1817 in Dresden ; † December 9, 1894 there ) was a German writer . Under various pseudonyms, she mainly published works for children and young people. She was the second wife of the Shakespeare translator Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin .

Life

Sophie von Baudissin was born in Dresden as the daughter of the Saxon court banker Michael Kaskel . In autumn 1840 she married the diplomat and translator Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin, whom she supported in his work in the following years. Her home in Dresden became the social center of important artists and scholars such as Hans Christian Andersen , Clara Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Sophie von Baudissin became a widow in 1878 and died in 1894. She was buried next to her husband at the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden.

Act

Sophie von Baudissin published literature for children and young people under the pseudonyms Aurelie , Tante Aurelie and Gowenz . Their complete works can be divided into fairy tales for children, compilations of other people's and their own stories for young people and a theater almanac for young people, which appeared in 1849. She also published her own contributions in Thekla von Gumpert's daughter album .

Works (selection)

Fairy tales and stories for children

• Aunt Aurelie - child and novella fairy tale . Told your nephews and nieces. With 4 fine ill. Images. Potsdam, Jahnke (1849). 278 pp.
• Aurelie - fairy tales for children (2nd edition, 1861)
• Aurelie - grandmother's stories . For children from 6 to 10 years. With 8 pictures in color print. Vienna, Lechner (1865). 335 pp.
• Aurelie - Children and Youth - Mährchen , tells about Aurelie. With 8 pictures in color print after drawings by Wilhelm Schäfer . 3rd presumed edition, Leipzig, Oehmigke (1870), 246 pp.
• Aurelie - fairy tales for children . Told by Aurelie. With 3 drawings in color dr. by Ludwig Berger. 2. change u. Probably edition Berlin, Springer (around 1875). 117 pp.
• Little stories for little people (1884)
• Children's fairy tale (1891)

Stories for young people

• Aurelie- The Stepdaughter (1853)
• Aurelie - The Opal : The Stepdaughter . A story for the more mature female youth. 2nd edition Stuttgart, Hallberger (1858). 262 p. (Ent. 2 works)
• Aurelie - Mährchen for the youth (2nd edition, 1861)
• Aurelie - From South and North (1862)
• Aurelie - Stories for Girls from 12 to 15 Years (1862)
• Aurelie - Experienced u. Narrated . For growing girls. With 8 color. Images. Vienna, Lechner (1863). 316 pp.
• The reading evening with Elisabeth (1863)
• Aurelie - Resi (1864)
• Elisabeth album (1865)
• Elisabeth's leisure hours (1865)
• Aurelie - The Opal . A story for the more mature female youth. With 1 cover picture. Berlin, Springer (3rd edition, 1865). 78 pp.
• Aurelie - two kinds of brothers . A patriotic story from the time of foreign rule and the wars of liberation. Dedicated to German youth. With 4 pictures based on original drawings by Carl Rechlin . 2nd edition Neu-Ruppin, Oehmigke (1868). 192 p. (Aurelie's youth writings, vol. 15).
• Aurelie - Elisabeth´s leisure hours . An educational entertainment book for adolescent girls. With pictures in color print. 2nd edition Leipzig, Oehmigke (1872). 333 pp.
• New Elisabeth album (1874)
• The foster son (1875)
• Youth fairy tale (1891)
• Stories for the more mature female youth: the opal. The stepdaughter. (4th ed., 1892)
• St. John's Day (1896)
• The Farmer's Daughters (1896)
• Who is rich (1896)

theatre

• Aurelie - Theater Almanac for Youth , includes the little housekeeper , the mountain spirit , the journey on foot , Birthday Party , overconfidence , The slippers of Abu casern . With colored lithogr. by Joh. Baptist Sonderland . Stuttgart, Hallberger (1849–1850, 2nd volumes)
• Aurelie - Theater for the Young (2nd increased edition of the Theater Almanac , 1861)
• Aurelie - theater for the youth . To be performed in family circles. 3. verb. Edition. With 4 pictures in color print. Leipzig, Oehmigke (1876). 173 pp.

literature

• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 135.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 16.
• Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, p. 332.
• Shawn C. Jarvis, Jeannine Blackwell: The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900 . University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska 2001, pp. 201ff.