Everything about Annette Von Droste-h Lshoff totally explained
(;
January 10,
1797 –
May 25,
1848) was a
19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.
She was born at the family seat of
Hülshoff near
Münster into an
aristocratic,
Catholic family in
Westphalia. She was educated by private tutors and began to write as a child, but didn't publish any of her work until she was forty years old. Among her best-known writings are the cycle of poems
Das geistliche Jahr (The Spiritual Year) and the novella
Die Judenbuche (The Jew's Beech).
Her early intellectual training was largely influenced by her cousin,
Clemens August Freiherr von Droste zu Vischering, who, as
archbishop of Cologne, became notorious for his extreme
ultramontane views (see below). She received a wider liberal education than was common for women of her time.
Despite her withdrawn and restricted life she corresponded with intellectual contemporaries such as the
Brothers Grimm. As her health continually worsened, earning a living through her writing was never an option. Despite this, she took her literary work very seriously.
She was able to break from her circumstances during a trip to
Lake Constance, originally only to visit relatives. From 1841 she stayed with her brother-in-law,
Joseph von Laßberg at Schloss Meersburg. In 1837 she became friends with the author
Levin Schücking, who, through her agency, became the librarian at Schloss Meersburg.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff is (according to the article in
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911) beyond doubt the most gifted and original of German women poets. Her verse is strong and vigorous, but often unmusical, if not to say harsh; one looks in vain for a touch of sentimentality or melting sweetness in it. As a lyric poet, she's at her best when she's able to attune her thoughts to the sober landscape of the Westphalian moorlands of her home. Her narrative poetry, and especially
Das Hospiz auf dem Großen St. Bernard and
Die Schlacht im Loener Bruch (both 1838), belongs to the best German poetry of its kind. She was a strict
Roman Catholic, and her religious poems, published in 1852, after her death, under the title
Das geistliche Jahr, nebst einem Anhang religiöser Gedichte, enjoyed great popularity.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff died in May 1848 at Schloss Meersburg, probably from
pneumonia.
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