Elisabeth von Staegemann

Johanna Elisabeth of Staegemann (* April 11, 1761 in Königsberg i Pr; † July 11, 1835 in Berlin) was a German writer, painter and Salonnière.

Life

The daughter of the Prussian merchant Commerce Johann Jakob Fischer (1786 lost) and the Regina nee Hartung ( 1734-1805 ) grew up in the Royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. In its liberal arts and science open-minded society, they gained a reputation already as a young woman. Among other things, she was known by Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Immanuel Kant and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, Friedrich Gentz ​​and the poet Friedrich August Staegemann were among her admirers. In 1780 she married the Judicial Council Graun, son of the composer Carl Heinrich Graun. When her husband was appointed in 1787 to Berlin, Elisabeth remained for eight years with her two children and her mother alone in Königsberg. They founded towards the end of the 1780s a salon -like socializing and followed her husband to Berlin in 1795, but still reached the end of the year for divorce. A year later she married in Königsberg, the Prussian officer and writer Friedrich August Staegemann, who had been worshiped in the 1780s. 1806 she went again with him to Berlin.

Due to the Prussian defeat at the battle of Jena and Auerstedt walked the couple Staegemann with the royal family back to East Prussia. Their common children were playmates of the princes and princesses. Also, to Prince Radziwill and his wife Louise of Prussia friendships were made. After three years of residence in Königsberg, the family 1809/10 returned to Berlin. The salon life that had not rested in East Prussia, was continued and intensified. Meanwhile, the State Council 's wife, Elisabeth Staegemann played once a leading role in the cultural life of Berlin, especially now that the circle of her friend Rahel Varnhagen dissolved in 1806 and had left a social vacuum.

Ennobled in 1816 with her husband, Elisabeth used until the age of artistic and literary gatherings in their home, where they themselves, however, since the late 1820s because of a disease no longer able to attend. In their place as hostess began her now married daughter Hedwig von Olfers. Since her time as Salonnière wrote and painted them sporadically, including some self-portraits; but she understood all his life as an amateur. Revered by many personalities of the literary and political life, including Heinrich von Kleist, she died in 1835 in Berlin. Her grave is in the cemetery III of Jerusalem and the New Church in Berlin. Her husband devoted her memories of Elizabeth, a collection of sonnets, which he had written for her since the beginning of their relationship. After their marriage in 1796 he dedicated to her about these verses:

Elizabeth, I've won it hot. In chaste Minne shackles struck early, Serves ' I just you, your knight without reproach. Embraced by your choice of your arm Shall I anjetzt - o let me say it proud! - Also equal your soul nobility.

Salon

The salon of Elizabeth Staegemann they (sometimes Wednesdays) until the hunter road, then (since 1818) in the Charlotte Street 68, on Dönhoffplatz (from 1825) and finally in the Charlotte Street 31 called together since about 1810 free daily ( since 1831 ), is historically between the so-called " Rahel time ", so Enlightenment late / early Romanticism, and Biedermeier. Is sociologically significant, as with many other contemporary salons, the relative freedom of class barriers in the choice of the guests and their mutual dealings. Your own artistic talents also allowed the Salonnière special access to poetry and music as they were kept in their home. Writers such as Kleist, Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim presented their works here. Numerous politicians and military men of the Prussian reform era were received by Elisabeth Staegemann and off.

Family

Elisabeth Fischer married on July 26, 1780 the Judicial Council grays. The marriage was unhappy and divorced in 1795. Your sprang two children:

  • Ferdinand Graun, lawyer
  • Antonie Theodora Graun (1785-1859) ∞ ( 1) 1804 Nicholas of Schmysing Gen. von Korff, (2) 1815 Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich von Horn.

In September 1796 she was a second marriage with Friedrich August Staegemann ( 1763-1840 ), the 1816 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. was ennobled by Prussia. Their children were:

  • August von Staegemann (1797-1866), landowner and philosopher
  • Hedwig of Staegemann (1799-1891) ∞ Ignaz von Olfers

Elizabeth of Staegemann founded by her daughter from his second marriage Hedwig a Salonnièrendynastie, which continued her granddaughter Marie von Olfers ( 1826-1924 ). Your great-granddaughter had Sibylle von Olfers.

Works

  • Memories for noble women. 2 vols Leipzig 1858.

Known habitués

  • David Maximowitsch Alopaeus
  • Karl vom Stein to the Old Stone
  • Achim von Arnim
  • Augustus of Prussia
  • Jacob Herz Beer
  • Ludwig Berger
  • Christian Günther von Bernstorff
  • Friederike Bethmann - Unzelmann
  • Carl Friedrich von Beyme
  • Hermann von Boyen
  • Johann Georg Emil von shower
  • Clemens Brentano
  • Friedrich Bury
  • Angelica Catalani
  • Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Helmina of Chezy
  • Carl von Clausewitz
  • Henriette of Crayen
  • Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander Dohna - Schlobitten
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Elise of Hohenhausen
  • Franz Christoph Horn
  • Heinrich Gustav Hotho
  • Alexander von Humboldt
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Johann Erdmann Hummel
  • Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth
  • Charles Albert of Kamptz
  • Johann Gottfried Kiesewetter
  • Bernhard Klein
  • Heinrich von Kleist
  • Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz
  • Christian Gottfried Körner
  • Anton Wilhelm von L' Estocq
  • Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum
  • Malla Montgomery Silfverstolpe
  • Adam Mueller of Nitterdorf
  • Wilhelm Müller
  • Konrad Engelbert Oelsner
  • Ignaz von Olfers
  • Ernst von Pfuel
  • Hermann von Pueckler
  • Anton Radziwill
  • Louise Radziwill
  • Christian Daniel Rauch
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt
  • Georg Andreas Reimer
  • Pierre Rode
  • Otto Rühle August of Lilienstern
  • Johann August Sack
  • Friedrich Carl von Savigny
  • Theodor Schmalz
  • Theodor von Schön
  • Friedrich von Schuckmann
  • John Schulze
  • Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein
  • Heinrich Stieglitz
  • Johann Wilhelm Süvern
  • Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien
  • Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn
  • Ludwig Tieck
  • Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
  • Rahel Varnhagen
  • Ludwig von Vincke
  • Heinrich von Werther
  • Ernestine von Wildenbruchstrasse
  • Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen
  • Wilhelm Freiherr von Willisen
  • Peter von Winter
  • Friedrich August Wolf
  • Hans David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenberg
  • Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti
Salon (gathering) Ludwig Achim von Arnim Friedrich August von Staegemann Ludwig Berger (composer) Malla Silfverstolpe Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther Peter Winter Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti Integrated Authority File
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