Anna Katharina Schönkopf

Anna Katharina Schönkopf (also called " Kate " and " Annette " called; * August 22, 1746 in Leipzig, † May 20, 1810 ibid ) was the daughter of pewterer and wine merchant Christian Gottlieb Schönkopf ( 1716-1791 ) and his wife Catherine Sibylla born Hauck (1714-1790), in whose inn the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe during his studies in Leipzig, took the lunch table.

The shape Käthchen in Goethe's life

Goethe fell violently in the landlord's daughter, when he met her in 1766. In his autobiography, he characterized it as a little saint, and to be as young, pretty, lively, loving, modest and worth honored. Since it when he was three years more mature and probably much older already, it seems at first to have more reserved and cautious responding. In addition, it was quite clear that a relationship between a patrician son and the daughter of a pewterer could not be considered as befitting what Goethe was aware.

Goethe's confidant in the relationship with Katie was ten years older than Wolfgang Ernst Behrisch, steward of Count Lindenau and professional in all aspects of the elegant and gallant life and poetry.

Goethe was inspired by his love for the production of playful poetry in the style of Rococo. These include the data collected by Behrisch Annett songs, including the famous song Annette to her lover:

When Goethe Kate had to "[ terrible ] really lost scenes ", the ratio was dissolved in the spring of 1768, which - had been quite problematic from the start - because of Goethe's extreme jealousy of real or perceived rival. Goethe cured himself of the all-nighter Erschütternissen by the pastoral play The mood of the lovers in which a jealous lover is healed when he realizes that he can be unfaithful.

Even after the end of the relationship Goethe taught for some time - quite gallant - Letters to Kate, so on November 1, 1768

" (...) I Dancke you for such an unexpectedly rapid response, and please also inskünftige to dencken in pleasant merry hours at me, and if it can be-ing to write to me; Your Lebhafftigkeit, your cheerfulness to see your joke to me is one of the greatest pleasures, he may so lightly, so bitter Being as he wants. (...) "

Anna Katharina married in 1770 the lawyer Christian Karl Kanne, who later became vice mayor of Leipzig. Goethe visited his first Mädgen 1776 after his move to Weimar again in Leipzig.

Kate looked like other women, with her gentle nature balances the tremendous temperament of the young Goethe. They appeared to him as an irritant - perfect and freed him from his youthful skepticism thereby. The fulfillment that she brought up for him, it already came across " the tragic basic problem " ( Emil Ludwig) of his life: What does it profit me that I enjoy?