Wilhelmine Mueller

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Wilhelmine Müller, b. Mash. Engraving around 1798

Wilhelmine Müller (born Maisch ; born August 28, 1767 in Neipperg , † December 12, 1806 in Karlsruhe ) was a German poet and paperback editor .

life and work

Title page and title copper of the collection of poems by Wilhelmine Müller, published in 1800.

She was born on August 28, 1767 as the eldest daughter of pastor Michael Maisch (1737-1801) in Neipperg, where she spent her childhood and early youth. As a child, she wrote her first verses. As a young woman - supported by the theologian and poet Karl Philipp Conz - she found a connection to the Stuttgart poets' circle. There she is said to have met Friedrich Hölderlin , to whom she dedicated a rhyming pistle.

During a long stay in Vienna, she made the acquaintance of the Baden phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall . After returning to Germany, Wilhelmine married the Karlsruhe printer Christian Friedrich Müller (1776–1821). In 1800 and 1806, she published a collection of her poems in her husband's publishing house. She also published the paperback for noble women and girls until her death . Wilhelmine Müller died on December 12, 1807 at the age of 40.

What was unusual for the time was that Wilhelmine Müller was not afraid to confidently publish under her own name. Found, for example in the from of her posts Friedrich Cotta laid Flora and that of Carl Lang published almanac and paperback for domestic and social pleasures . Some of Müller's poems address the importance of girls' education and promote gender equality. In an epistle she wrote to her friend, poet Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel : "I plunged boldly and courageously into battle / and fought valiantly for the rights of women."

literature

  • Wilhelmine Müller: Poems , newly published, commented a. with an introduction by Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso, Brackenheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-939333-08-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso: "I plunged boldly and courageously into combat and fought valiantly for the rights of women". On the life and work of the poet Wilhelmine Müller . In: Wilhelmine Müller: Gedichte , Carlesso Verlag: Brackenheim 2015, pp. 5–98, here: pp. 14f.
  2. ↑ Epistle to Pfeffel. Baden, August 1804 . In: Wilhelmine Müller: Gedichte , Carlesso Verlag: Brackenheim 2015, pp. 320–322, here: p. 321.

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelmine Müller  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maisch, Wilhelmine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and paperback editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Neipperg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1806
Place of death Karlsruhe