Henriette Paalzow

Henriette of Paalzow (* 1788 in Berlin, † October 30, 1847 ibid ) was a German writer.

Life and work

Henriette Wach, daughter of a civil servant, worked as a teacher and married in 1816 with the Major of Paalzow, which they followed to Westphalia and the Rhine. After 1821, after her marriage was divorced, she lived with her ​​brother, the painter Karl Wilhelm Wach in Berlin. From the autumn of 1836 she spent a year in Cologne, but then returned to Berlin, where she lived until her death.

She established her reputation through the novel

• Godwie Castle (Breslau 1838, 3 vols ), which
• St. Roche (Breslau 1839, 3 vols )
• Thomas Thyrnau (Breslau 1843, 3 vols ), the most important of their inventions, and
• Jacob van der Nees (Breslau 1847, 3 vols ) followed.

With a certain width and optimistic view of life relationships, the author joined the subtlety of observation and clear, meticulous style, so that the significant success of her novels was not unjustified. They appeared several times collected (most recently in Stuttgart in 1884, 12 vols ). The discount tape

• A writer lives (Breslau 1855), contains her letters to her publisher.

Henriette Paalzow works were at the Prussian court very much appreciated, especially by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the Romantic on the royal thrones.

Henriette Paalzow was buried as her brother on the Friedrichswerder Cemetery in Berlin -Kreuzberg. Both graves are, however, no longer obtain.