Louise Brachmann (2 February 1777 — 17 September 1822) was a German

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writer, and

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Biography

Louise Brachmann was born in

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, Saxony, to a civil service father and a cultured mother. Responsible for her education, Louise's mother was close to the Hardenberg family, which included the celebrated poet

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

. Louise's mother introduced her to Novalis, who, recognizing Brachmann's talent and potential, recommended her to

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. Brachmann contributed to Schiller's journals the ''Die Horen'' and ''Musenalmanach''. In 1800, four years after her first suicide attempt, her parents, sister, and three close friends died. She met Sophie Mereau in Jena, where she published poems and short stories in modern journals. However, she failed to find a publisher to sponsor her work in her lifetime. Brachmann's second suicide attempt was thwarted and, a few days later, she drowned herself in the river

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in Halle, Germany.

Published works

Louise Brachmann's published works as cited by ''An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers''. *''Lyrische Gedichte'', 1800. *''Gedichte'', 1808. *''"Einige Züge aus meinem Leben in Beziehung auf Novalis"'' *''Romantische Blüten'', 1817. *''Das Fottesurteil. Rittergedicht in fünf Gesängen'', 1818. *''Novellen und kleine Romane'', 1819. *''Schilderungen aus der Wirklichkeit'', 1820. *''Novellen'', 1822. *''Romantische Blätter'', 1823. *''Verirrungen oder Die Macht der Verhältnisse'', novel, 1823. *''Auserlesene Dichtungen von L.B.'', F.K.J. Schütz, ed., 2 volumes, 1824. *''Erzählungen und Novellen'', F.K.J. Schütz, ed., 4 volumes, 1825. *''Auserlesene Erzählungen und Novellen'', K.L.M. Müller, ed., 4 volumes, 1825–1826. Translation: *''The Three Sons'' ie drei Söhne 1827.

References

External links

A selection of Brachmann's works
on the Sophie database {{DEFAULTSORT:Brachmann, Louise 1777 births 1822 deaths German women poets 18th-century German poets 19th-century German poets 19th-century German women writers 18th-century German women writers 1820s suicides Suicides in Germany People from Rochlitz