Wilhelmine von Schwertzell

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Wilhelmine Christine Caroline von Schwertzell (born August 2, 1790 in Willingshausen ; † November 20, 1849 there ) was a German composer , poet and fairy tale collector for the Brothers Grimm .

Life

Wilhelmine von Schwertzell von und zu Willingshausen was the second eldest daughter of the Kurhessischen Rittmeister a. D. Georg vom Schwertzell and Freiin Luise von Boyneburg − Stedtfeld. She had three sisters. Her brother Fritz von Schwertzell was a schoolmate and fellow student of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm . Her brother introduced her to Wilhelm Grimm and he became friends with her. This friendship carried over to all members of the Grimm and Schwertzell families . Since 1810, Wilhelm Grimm was connected to the family Schwertzell in close friendship and returned regularly for the journey from Kassel or Marburg in Schloss Willingshausen one. He looked for relaxation in the castle park and the neighboring woods. In Willingshausen Wilhelm Grimm met the painter and Goethe friend Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern and his wife Charlotte von Schwertzell. With his brother, the painter Ludwig Emil Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm won Wilhelmine von Schwertzell for his old German efforts to collect legends . Wilhelmine von Schwertzell collected fairy tales for Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm.

Wilhelmine von Schwertzell died unmarried in 1849.

plant

Wilhelmine von Schwertzell collected fairy tales from the Schwalm for the Brothers Grimm, such as: The godfather , Jorinde and Jorigel and the little golden legs . She wrote a handwritten fairy tale for Wilhelm Grimm entitled February 24th . The art fairy tale Once Upon a Time a Boy from 1817/18 comes from Wilhelmine von Schwertzell's hand . This fairy tale is a parody of the runes discovered by Professor Christoph Rommel from the Philipps University of Marburg in a pre-Christian burial mound near Willingshausen. Around 1823 she composed songs by Göthe , Fouqué , Hebel , Tiek and Uhland for two voices and piano. In the estate of the Brothers Grimm there are 75 letters from Wilhelmine von Schwertzell to the Brothers Grimm up to the time they moved to Berlin.

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm . 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Wilhelm Schoof : On the genesis of the Grimm fairy tales . Dr. Ernst Hausnedell & Co. Hamburg 1959 pp. 90- 97
personal data
SURNAME Schwertzell, Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelmine von Schwertzell from and to Willingshausen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, poet and fairy tale collector for the Brothers Grimm
DATE OF BIRTH 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Willingshausen
DATE OF DEATH 1849
Place of death Willingshausen