Therese von Bacheracht

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Therese von Bacheracht, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1841, after a painting by Friedrich Amerling

Therese von Bacheracht , b. von Struve , married Baroness von Lützow (born July 4, 1804 in Stuttgart , † September 16, 1852 in Tjilatjap , Java , Dutch East Indies ) was a German writer in the area of Young Germany who wrote under the pseudonym Therese . In addition to novels and short stories, she wrote travelogues, feature pages for Pariser Blätter and acted as an anonymous editor of letters from Wilhelm von Humboldt to a friend [di Charlotte Diede ] .

Life

Therese Henriette Antoinette Elisabeth von Struve was born in Stuttgart as the daughter of the Imperial Russian Legation Secretary and State Councilor Heinrich von Struve and Elisabeth Wilhelmine Sidonie Countess Oexle von Friedenberg (1780–1837). Her cousin Gustav Struve became known as a revolutionary during the March Revolution of 1848/49.

Therese had lived in Hamburg since she was ten, where her father had received a Russian diplomatic post in 1814. Here she frequented the first social circles. She was praised by contemporaries for her beauty and was valued for her conversational talents. In Weimar, where she was sent at the age of 16, she made the acquaintance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , and at the imperial institute for noble girls in St. Petersburg she received a professional education.

In 1825 she entered into a marriage of convenience with the wealthy Imperial Russian State Councilor, Legation Secretary and Consul General Robert von Bacheracht (1798-1884). The only son from this marriage died early. In the autumn of 1841 she met Karl Gutzkow . A passionate relationship developed between them, both married, which - after several crises - did not end until autumn 1848. At his suggestion, she began to become active as a writer under the pseudonym "Therese". Small features appeared in Paris newspapers as well as a translation of Henriette Paalzow's novel St. Roche into French. In 1841 her first book, the travel description Letters from the South , was published by Friedrich Karl von Strombeck . Numerous trips to St. Petersburg and the Orient provided the material for further publications. In close collaboration with her lover Gutzkow, new novels and short stories were created every year. Therese von Bacheracht also published articles in Gutzkow's Telegraph for Germany and reviewed his works. In 1845 she met Fanny Lewald in Berlin , with whom she soon became a close friend.

In 1847 Therese von Bacheracht anonymously published Wilhelm von Humboldt's letters to Charlotte Diede, which her friend, who died in 1846, had bequeathed to her. The two-volume work Letters from Wilhelm von Humboldt to a Friend was a great success and had twelve editions by 1891. Later editions bore Charlotte Diedes' name as the author. Alexander von Humboldt reacted with embarrassment to the publication, which portrayed his brother soulfully and thoughtfully.

The marriage with Robert von Bacheracht was not a happy one and they divorced in 1849. In August 1849 Therese von Bacheracht married her childhood sweetheart, cousin Heinrich Freiherr von Lützow , a colonel in the Dutch military service in Surabaya in Java (Dutch East Indies), where she had lived since their marriage. While preparing their return to Germany Therese died of Bacheracht on 16 September 1852 at the age of 48 years of dysentery .

Works

  • Letters from the south. 1841 digitized
  • A diary. 1842
  • Falkenberg. Roman, 1843
  • At the tea table. 1844 digitized
  • Lydia. Roman, 1844
  • World happiness. Roman, 1845
  • People and areas. 1845
  • Heinrich Burkart. Roman, 1846
  • Paris and the Alps. 1846
  • A trip to Vienna. 1848 digitized
  • Alma. Roman, 1848
  • Novellas. 2 vol., 1849
    • Vol. 1: Sigismund . - A still life.
    • Vol. 2: Rome and Berlin . - Interlaken .

literature

  • Otto Beneke :  Lützow, Therese Freifrau von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 723 f.
  • Dirk Brietzke : Bacheracht, Therese von . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 32-34 .
  • Karl Emil Franzos : Gutzkows "Therese". With unprinted letters from Therese von Bacheracht . In: German poetry . Volume 15, Issue 9-10, 1894, pp. 222-228, 245-251. (Contains letters to Thekla Weber)
  • Werner Vortriedte (ed.): Therese von Bacheracht and Karl Gutzkow. Unpublished letters (1842-1849) . Kösel, Munich 1971.
  • Renate Mörmann:  Lützow, Therese b. v. Struve. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 493 ( digitized version ).
  • Hugh Powell: Fervor and fiction. Therese von Bacheracht and her works . Camden House, Columbia, SC 1996, ISBN 1-57113-044-6 .
  • Ulrike Stamm: Therese von Bacheracht: A traveler from Vormärz between commitment and sentiment . In: Christina Ujma: Paths to Modernity. Travel literature by writers from the Vormärz . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-728-2 .
  • Renate Sternagel (Ed.): Therese von Bacheracht - “Today I will see something strange”. Letters from Java 1850–1852 . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2006, ISBN 3-89741-194-6 .
  • Ulrike Stamm: Therese von Bacheracht and Fanny Lewald. A friendship between literature and love disorder. In: Fanny Lewald (1811-1889). Studies on a great European writer and intellectual. Edited by Christina Ujma, Vormärz-Studien Vol. 20, Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 115–130. ISBN 978-3-89528-807-4

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personal data
SURNAME Bacheracht, Therese von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Therese; Baroness von Lützow (married name); Struve, Therese von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1852
Place of death Tjilatjap Dutch East Indies , Java