Katharina Sibylla Schücking

Sibylla Katharina Schücking ( born January 26, 1791 in Ahlen, † November 2, 1831 in Soegel; born Catherine Bush ) was a Westphalian poet.

Life

Sibylla Katharina Schücking, was born as the oldest of twelve children of urban and rural judge Ignatz Anton Busch and his wife, Elizabeth Busch, born Elverfeldt. She grew up in Dülmen and was educated in the local monastery Agnetenberg. From 1807 to 1809 she lived in Münster. Here her literary talent was discovered and promoted by the poet Anton Matthias Sprickmann. In Munster they also came into acquaintance with the circle around the Princess Amalia of Gallitzin. 1809 Catherine went back to Dülmen. In 1813, Catherine married the jurist Paul Modestus Schücking. The couple had six children: Christoph Bernhard Matthias Levin, known as Schücking Levin, (1814-1883), Peter August Gerhard (1816-1817), Anton Matthias Franz Alfred (1818-1898), Ida Josephina Theophania Desideria (1821-1883), Modesta Paulina Nicolaia Roswitha (1825-1896) and Prosper Louis ( 1828-1887 ).

1815 the family moved Schücking after Soegel over at Meppen. Catherine suffered as a result of change of residence under their social and spatial isolation. This was their literary work to a halt and on November 2, 1831, she passed away on the Ludmillenhof in Soegel. The grave monument of Catherine Sibylla Schücking is located in the atrium of St. Prosper Church in Gehlenberg ( Friesoythe ).

Services

Friedrich Raßmanns Mimigardia contained 1810 first printed poems Sibylla Katharina Schücking. Contrary to their wish, this was done not under a pseudonym, but with mention of her name and place of residence. As a result, ridicule and laughter poured out upon the originator. This, however, Katharina not lost in reputation as a poet. In 1813 it came to the first meeting and a subsequent friendship with Annette von Droste- Hulshoff, for she was a kind of " poet Idol". The Droste devoted her later poem of my own, Catharine Schücking.

A part of her work remained unpublished. They raved about Klopstock and was author of sentimental - gentle lyricism, as in the dream:

An hour oh and this hardly Yet the best hour of my life Was I saved because a holder dream Hovering around my temple not in vain All earthly things I was caught Felt what only happy Heavenly And gave them the dream completely I Survived quickly a whole beautiful life.

But your situation is also reflected in such statements as these expressed: " If I were but did not become a woman, who has so patiently cling in all the shackles and limitations of civil life, and may be, so different from his character and his mental powers, but always must yield to the same provision. " (Letter to Anton Mathias Sprickmann, 1809)

Sibylla Katharina Schücking wrote under the pen name " Pauline Cl. "

Works

• Letters to Anton Mathias Sprickmann. In: Large, 1885, Vol 1, p 216f.
• Letters to Annette von Droste- Hulshoff. In: K. Schulte Kemminghausen: A fateful letter. On the 150th birthday Levin Schücking. In: Westf. messages. No. 206 of 5 September 1964.

• Catherine Schücking reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Walter Gödden. ( Nylands Small Westphalian Library Vol 27) Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-843-2.