Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann

Sidonia Hedwig fences (b. January 15, 1711 in Erfurt, † December 11, 1740 in Plaue ) was a German poet.

Life and work

Sidonia Hedwig fences man was born in 1711 as the daughter of the lawyer and notary Paul Nikolas fences man in Erfurt and grew up there in their civil devout family in their apartment, she continued to live his life. Showed early their tendency to break out of prescribed female roles of her time. She taught himself French and Latin, and was marked by great enthusiasm for learning.

She made several trips to Ilmenau to her sister, dressed up alone on horseback, and as a man, as it was otherwise at this time for a woman impossible to travel alone. Next it was one of the first women to be visited a mine, their impressions she processed in her poem The mine at Ilmenau.

For fences 's most famous works are her poems. Her first works were occasional poems for weddings or festivities. When her poetic model called Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, the social norms adapted, but also well-known and was more popular than Fences man. Ziegler was the first woman who had been honored with the title of imperial -winning poet. 1738 also received Fences man of the University of Goettingen this honorary title.

In her work, she takes radical and self-conscious to the social dominance of men and condemns the idea that women are second-class citizens. Through these statements and her unconventional life she was long regarded as an outsider, and her influence on later poets was thus lower than that of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler.

Sidonia fences husband died in 1740 during one of her rides when she fell from a damaged by flooding bridge over the Gera Angelroda in the floods.