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German writer (1827–1889)
Gisela von Arnim
Portrait of von Arnim by Caroline Bardua (1840)
Born(1827-08-30)August 30, 1827
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation
DiedApril 4, 1889(1889-04-04) (aged 61)
Florence, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
Spouse Herman Grimm ​(m. 1859)​
Parents
RelativesClemens Brentano (uncle), Sophie von La Roche (great-grandmother)

Gisela von Arnim (also Giesela; August 30, 1827 in Berlin – April 4, 1889 in Florence) was a German writer, mainly of fairy tales.

Biography

Gisela was the youngest child of Achim and Bettina von Arnim. Her father died when she was four years old. Her maternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and some of his ancestors are Sophie von La Roche and Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen.

She was not formally educated, being taught only by her sisters. In her youth she read fairy tales and Romantic poetry, especially the works of Wilhelm Hauff, and began to write fairy tales herself. With her sisters she started the "Kaffeter circle", first a group for young women and later a full literary salon also including men (honorary members included Hans Christian Andersen and Emmanuel Geibel).

In 1849, Gisela met violinist and composer Joseph Joachim, (born in 1831), in Weimar. A painful relationship developed and only ended after Gisela von Arnim married Herman Grimm in 1859. In 1853 she met Johannes Brahms and Joachim through their mutual acquaintances Robert and Clara Schumann. Brahms and Joachim subsequently used elements of her name via musical cryptography in some of their music. Joachim dedicated his Three Pieces for Violin and Piano (Opus 5), published in 1854, to her. Gisela von Arnim's letters to Joseph Joachim are unpublished, and are at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt.

On October 24, 1859, she married the Germanist and art historian Herman Grimm, a son of Wilhelm Grimm.

Works

  • Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (with Bettina von Arnim)
  • Mondkönigs Tochter
  • Aus den Papieren eines Spatzen
  • Das Licht
  • Die gelbe Haube
  • Dramatische Werke (collection)
  • Drei Mährchen

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ Arnim, Bettina von; Arnim, Gisela von; Ohm, Lisa (1999). The life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse =: Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns. European women writers series. Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4665-2.
  2. ^ Duggan, Anne E.; Haase, Donald; Callow, Helen, eds. (2016). Folktales and fairy tales: traditions and texts from around the world (Second ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-61069-253-3.
  3. ^ Zipes, Jack, ed. (2015). The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. OUP Oxford. p. 28. ISBN 9780191004162.
  4. "Gisela von Arnim" (PDF). von-arnim.net.
  5. "Gisela von Arnim". www.oxfordreference.com. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  6. ^ Gisela_von_Arnim de.wikipedia.org
  7. ^ "Joseph Joachims Briefe an Gisela von Arnim 1852-1859" [Joseph Joachim's letters to Gisela von Arnim 1852-1859]. Joseph Joachim. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  8. ^ Uhde, Katharina (December 2015). "Of 'Psychological Music', Ciphers and Daguerreotypes: Joseph Joachim's Abendglocken Op. 5 No. 2 (1853)". Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 12 (2): 227–252. doi:10.1017/S1479409815000312. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  9. Georg Predota (30 April 2022). "Six of Brahms's most talented friends". interlude.hk. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  10. Sams, Eric (1980). "Cryptography, musical". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. Vol. 5 (6 ed.). Macmillan. p. 80.
  11. "3 Stücke, Op.5 (Joachim, Joseph) - IMSLP". imslp.org. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  12. "H Grimm". arthistorians.info. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  13. Arnim, Gisela von (1 January 1849). "Mondkönigs Tochter". Sophie Digital Library: Prose Fiction written by German-speaking women. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  14. Arnim, Gisela von (1 January 1848). "Aus den Papieren eines Spatzen". Sophie Digital Library: Prose Fiction written by German-speaking women. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  15. "Dramatische Werke". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  16. "Drei Mährchen". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2025-01-10.

Bibliography

  • Eva Mey (2004). Ich gleiche einem Stern um Mitternacht: Die Schriftstellerin Gisela von Arnim, Tochter Bettinas und Gattin Herman Grimms [I am like a star at midnight: The writer Gisela von Arnim, daughter of Bettina and wife of Herman Grimm] (in German). Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag. ISBN 3-7776-1331-2.


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