Rosa Maria Assing
Rosa Maria Antonetta Paulina assing born Varnhagen, ( born May 28, 1783 in Dusseldorf, † January 22, 1840 in Hamburg) was a German poet, storyteller, translator, paper cutting artist and educator. She is the elder sister of Karl August Varnhagen, the sister of Rahel Levin and the mother of Ottilie and Ludmilla Assing.
Life
Childhood and youth
As a subsidiary of Straßburgerin Anna Maria Varnhagen née Kuntz, and the town physician and Palatine Medizinalrats Dr. Johann Andreas Jacob Varnhagen Rosa Maria Assing came on May 28, 1783 in Dusseldorf with the world and was baptized as her mother Protestant, while her younger brother Karl August should grow up in the Catholic confession. Otherwise, they received the same training by tutor as he and additionally lessons in formative subjects. As an enlightened doctor was her father supporters of human rights and the ideals of the French Revolution. Rosa Maria played guitar and also learned revolutionary songs such as the Marseillaise, La Carmagnole and: Ça ira; also with a Trikolorenschärpe she was seen as a young girl in Dusseldorf.
In 1790 the family moved to Strasbourg, where the father tried in vain for a professorship at the university. Anna Maria enjoyed the daughter of a Strasbourg alderman civil rights and stayed with Rosa Maria alone, while Johann Andreas Jacob Varnhagen and his son returned to Dusseldorf. Despite a public distancing from the Jacobin Reign of Terror, he was expatriated and settled in 1794 as a doctor in Hamburg down, where mother and daughter arrived only in 1796. At fifteen, Rosa Maria wrote an epistolary novel, lyric poems and short stories.
Educator and poet
Following a prolonged illness and an accident Johann Andreas Varnhagen died on 5 June 1798. His son Charles Augustus allowed a friend for a while to study medicine in Berlin, while Rosa Maria had to earn a living for herself and her mother as a teacher. In a merchant family, she taught two daughters, who were a little older than herself Later she also points among Jewish families, which caused in her circle for " Lerm and stir ", several times she has " this qu'en dit -on despite commanded ". With a loan of her last employer George Oppenheimer she founded in 1811 finishing school, which was relocated in 1814 to Hamburg. Already in the first six months, she taught eight pupils.
In the same year Karl August Varnhagen in 1811 took the additional name " von Ense " the noble Westphalian ancestors, which his sister took over, which published their works under the name Rosa Maria. Her brother gave her the acquaintance of poets such as Adelbert von Chamisso, with the Old French poetry of the troubadours, she translated, and Justinus Kerner, who visited several times as a medical student in Hamburg. Kerner her also presented his Jewish fellow students David Assur from Konigsberg, who was blind in one eye after an accident and his doctor graduated in 1807. More poet friends from this group were Ludwig Uhland, Gustav Schwab Karl Mayer and from the Swabian school of poets at whose anthologies and Muses almanacs ( poetic almanac for the year 1812, German poet forest ) they participated. Also on the literary ventures of her brother and he founded North Star League and the German Musenalmanach of Chamisso and Schwab Rosa Maria took an active part.
Amalie Schoppe, who came as a student to her, soon became a close friend and collaborator; they had also inspired to write and was a much sought-after and prolific writer. Rosa Maria also wrong with Elise Campe, the childhood friend Rahel Varnhagen, David Veit, with Fanny Tarnow and Johanna Neander.
Marriage and salon sociability
Since the beginning of 1816 Rosa Maria was engaged to David Assur, who had taken part in the wars of liberation as a regimental doctor and 1814 returned decorated with the Iron Cross. He was baptized in order to practice in Hamburg allowed, called himself " assing " and kept after her marriage to Rosa Maria ancient surname as a middle name with. In November 1816 he began to practice as a doctor of the poor in the Jewish residential district in St. Mary's Street. Their first child, Carl Eginhard died in the year of birth 1817.
With their 1819 and 1821 -born daughters Ottilie and Ludmilla Assing the Assings moved to the pool road, where Rosa Maria led a literary salon. Her house was " one of the most respected in Hamburg, including excellent it contributed even by a rare combination of high moral dignity, serene joy of life and rich mental gifts ". Here reversed many of Young Germany authors such as Ludolf Wienbarg, Theodor Mundt and Karl Gutzkow and their Jewish friends Salomon Ludwig Steinheim, Gabriel Sandriesser and Rachel de Castro. Friedrich Hebbel Also, the David Assing healed of a life-threatening disease, and Heinrich Heine, who had come on the recommendation of Karl August Varnhagen in May 1823 Assings, were among this group.
At the meetings in the " small dark, tree-shaded home of modest pool road, in a little garden, where settled comfortably do twenty paces ", even paper cuts were made. At the utmost perfection Rosa Maria brought her art to be cut from colored and black paper silhouettes of plants and birds, and entire landscape panoramas; their fairytale scenes with tiny, botanical exact details have already been publicly exhibited during his lifetime and probably used as stage sets for theater paper. Another social enjoyment in the Salon Rosa Maria Assings were readings of dramas with distributed roles, which was directed by Gutzkow.
Last years of life
With their children Rosa Maria made several trips to Swabia, Alsace and in Paris, where she attended Heinrich Heine. In 57 years, on January 22, 1840 - one day after the 19th birthday of their daughter Ludmilla - succumbed Rosa Maria Assing a debilitating disease. Your widower gave out her collected poems and stories and devoted her own Nenien. Following the transfer of their daughters to Berlin her estate came into the collection Varnhagen. Your books and silhouettes are now kept in the Berlin State Library, Manuscripts and letters. Than part of the World War outsourced to Silesia cultural assets in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska ( the library of the Jagiellonian University ) in Krakow
Works and Letters
- Rosa Maria Assing: Fabio and Clara. A short story by Rosa Maria. In: Wilhelm Neumann and Karl August Varnhagen (ed.): stories and games. Hamburg: Adolph Schmidt 1807, pp. 233-278.
- Rosa Maria Assing: The chimney sweep. Story based on a true story, from the middle of the last century. F. G. Levrault, Strasbourg 1834; Reprinted as No. 11 of the series of the Association for the dissemination of good writings, Zurich 1894
- Adelbert von Chamisso and Rosa Maria. ( Communicated by Rosa Maria). In: The Freeport 2 (1839 ), H. 1, pp. 1-28
- David Assur assing (ed.): Rosa Maria's poetic discount. Erich Hamm, Altona 1841 ( Teildigitalisat ).
- Rosa Maria Assing: The Sleeping Princess. An old fairy tales for intelligent children. In: Telegraph for Germany, born in 1846, Nos. 93-107, pp. 369 ff, 374 ff, 379 f, 382 f, 386 ff, 391 f, 395 f, 398 ff, 402 f, 407 f, 411 f, 415 f, 419 f, 423 f, 426 ff
- Joachim Kirchner ( ed.): silhouettes from the estate Varnhagen von Ense: Following in the Prussian State Library located originals. People's Association of book lovers, sign -Verlag, Berlin 1925