Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller
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Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (née Kodweiß; 13 December 1732 – 29 April 1802) was a German innkeeper's daughter, notable as the mother of the playwright Friedrich Schiller.
Life
[edit]She was born in the small town of Marbach am Neckar to innkeeper Georg Friedrich Kodweiß (1698–1771) and his wife Anna Maria Munz (1698–1773). Anna was a farmer's daughter from the Röhracher Hof in Rietenau, whilst Georg was from a respectable family which had in earlier times had also managed the town's mayor's office. He acquired a certain wealth as innkeeper of the "Goldenen Löwen" in Marbach and had learned the trade of baking.
She died in Cleversulzbach, now part of Neuenstadt am Kocher.
Bibliography
[edit]- (in German) Rudolf Schwan: Die Frau Majorin. Schillers Mutter in Cleversulzbach. Betulius, Stuttgart / Mörike-Museum Cleversulzbach, Cleversulzbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-89511-102-0
External links
[edit]- (in German) Letters by Schiller to his parents in the Friedrich-Schiller-Archiv
- (in German) Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller on the LEO-BW
- (in German) Receipt for „Qütten-Hüppen“ (Quitten-Hippen) in the Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach (PDF; 353 kB)
References
[edit]- ^ (in German) Reiner Strunk: Eduard Mörike. Pfarrer und Poet. Calwer Verlag, 2. Aufl., Stuttgart 2004, S. 107