Caroline von Briest
Caroline Philippine von Briest, better known as Caroline de la Motte Fouqué Philippine ( born October 7, 1773 in Berlin, † July 20, 1831 at Gut nominal bei Rathenow ) was a German writer of romance.
Life and work
Caroline von Briest was the only child of Brandenburg landowner Philipp von Briest (* October 3, 1749; † January 7, 1822 ) and his first wife, Caroline of Zinnow (* July 18, 1752, † March 7, 1800 ) was born in Berlin and grew on the estate nominal bei Rathenow on in the Mark Brandenburg. She received private lessons and had a French governess.
On December 20, 1791 was married to the officer and Ehrendomherrn Friedrich Ludwig Ehrenreich Adolf Rochus von Rochow ( 1770-1799 ), the marriage failed. Even before the divorce, her husband shot and killed because of gambling debts. On January 9, 1803 married his second wife divorced writer Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouque ( 1777-1843 ), a son of Heinrich August Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque and Marie Louise of Schlegell. The later life took place between nominal Hausen and Berlin. She took part in court life and entertained there is also a literary salon.
During the summer months the Good Nennhausen became an intellectual center, which was visited by many aristocratic and bourgeois writers, among others, Adelbert von Chamisso, Joseph von Eichendorff, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, Rahel Levin Varnhagen von Ense, August Wilhelm Schlegel and ETA Hoffmann. Madame de la Motte Fouqué wrote novels, short stories, short stories and other writings. 1812 and 1813 they published two volumes of a paperback book of legends with Amalie von Hellwig.
On August 21, 1831 Philippine Caroline de la Motte Fouqué died in Nennhausen and was buried in the park of the castle. Caroline de la Motte Fouqué shared with her husband 's fate, to have survived their own glory.
Caroline de la Motte Fouque is a great-granddaughter of the chief administrative officer Jakob Friedrich von Briest (1631-1703), of which it is in Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest, he was that Briest, " who carried out the raid of Rathenow the day before the battle Fehrbellinerplatz ". In the walks through the Mark Brandenburg, band or country, Fontane refers in the article to Castle Wilke village on locally portraits hanging of the "old, now extinct Briest'schen family" and refers explicitly to Nennhausen and the military services, the district administrator of Briest "on Nennhausen Havelland " the Great Elector rendered before he was invested with the good.
Progeny
From the marriage with the landowner Friedrich von Rochow, which by all accounts was unhappy, had three children:
- Gustav von Rochow (1792-1847), Prussian minister
- Theodor Heinrich Rochus von Rochow (* April 21, 1794, † April 19, 1854 ), Prussian general and minister in Saint Petersburg ∞ Countess Matilda Elizabeth of Wartensleben (* November 29, 1798, † November 25, 1874 ) (sister of Gustav von Wartensleben )
- Klara von Rochow (1796-1865), the father should be in all probability the Graf von Lehndorff.
The marriage with the writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué was by all accounts harmonious; from her went forth a daughter:
- Marie Luise Caroline de la Motte Fouqué (1803-1864)
Name in different stages of life
Works
Correspondence (selection)
- Leaves public in the world, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué and Sophie Tieck Bernhardi - von Knorring, Wolfgang de Bruyn / Barbara Gribnitz (ed.), Wehrhahnlinie Verlag, Hannover 2011 ISBN 978-3-86525-195-4