Ulrike von Levetzow
Ulrike von Levetzow ( born February 4, 1804 in Löbnitz, † November 13, 1899 at Castle Trziblitz; Complete name: Theodore Ulrike Sophie Levetzow ) was the last love of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Life
The eldest daughter of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin between Chamberlain and later Lord Chamberlain Joachim Otto Ulrich von Levetzow and Amalie of Brösigkes was raised by earlier parental divorce and remarriage of the mother in a French boarding school. It was followed by the sisters and Amélie, of the second marriage of the mother, Bertha von Levetzow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fell in love in 1821 during an extended spa stay in the exclusive resort Marianske Lazne in the seventeen- year-old. For the last time in his life he felt " a great passion ." At a meeting in 1823 led Goethe Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach to advertise on his behalf at the age of nineteen.
His grief over the rejection of the marriage proposal from Goethe expressed in his Marienbad Elegy, with their transcript he began in September 1823 during the departure from Bohemia to Thuringia and learned of their existence Ulrike von Levetzow after Goethe's death. Goethe wrote in his diary on September 19, 1823: " The completed copy of the poem. " The elegy he put the Tasso borrowed a motto: " If man in his agony silenced / A god gave me to say what I suffer. "
Ulrike von Levetzow later gave in their short memories of Goethe that she had " no desire to get married " to go, and in fact they remained unmarried until her death. The fact that she was said to have a love relationship with Goethe, annoyed, and they rejected it clearly. Thus, they have had Goethe merely " like a father " loving. Even at the age she wrote in an autobiographical sketch a kind of reply to refute and clarify " all the wrong, often fabulous stories that were printed about ": " no love affair, it was not ."
She died at the age of ninety-five years as a Canoness of the Holy Sepulchre on the big Good Trziblitz, which she had inherited from her stepfather.
Martin Walser made the love of the aging Goethe to Ulrike in his novel A loving husband to the topic. In this narrative, Ulrike receive a copy of the Marienbad Elegy his lifetime of Goethe. A staged version took place in 2010 in a production by Ansgar Haag am Meininger Theater in the presence of the author premiered.