Sophie Tieck

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Sophie Tieck

with Ludwig Tieck
Born 28 February 1775
Berlin
Died 1 October 1833
Talinn
Nationality German
Spouse(s) August Ferdinand Bernhardi

Sophie Tieck (28 February 1775 – 1 October 1833) was a German romantic writer and poet. Later known as Sophie Bernhardi and Sophie von Knorring.[1] Tieck's important role as a writer of the Romantic period was overshadowed by her brother[2] and her first husband. She was only really appreciated as an important writer when her letters were published in the 1960s. A plot twist in her brother's story Eckbert the Blond is an unattributed invention by Sophie Tieck.[2]

Life

Tieck was born in Berlin in 1775 to Ludwig and Ann Sophie Tieck. Her father was a rope maker. She was the middle child of three and unlike her two brothers she was educated at home by her mother. Her elder brother was Ludwig Tieck who was also a notable writer whilst her younger brother, Friedrich, was a successful sculptor.[3]

Sophie and Ludwig worked closely together particularly in the period 1795-6 where they worked on stories for Friedrich Nicholai's Ostrich feathers. Ludwig submitted sixteen stories but eight (or nine) of these were due to Sophie. It has been said that their relationship was "too close" and may have been incestuous. They wrote and performed plays, translated Shakespeare and read the works of the Enlightenment. When the Shakespeare translations were published it was Ludwig who took the credit. This was not an oversight as when Ludwig's daughter, Dorothea Tieck also translated Shakespeare's other works her father forgot to credit her too.[2]

In 1799 Sophie married a fellow writer and translator August Ferdinand Bernhardi who had taught her brother. Bernhardi also published stories and he collaborated with Sophie. He continued Ludwig's habit and did not credit his wife. He published a three volume work and the last volume is thought to have been written almost entirely by Sophie but she was not acknowledged.[3] However the marriage was not happy and she had an affair with the poet and translator August Wilhelm Schlegel. Sophie left with her two children. There was a legal fight over the custody of the children whilst the divorce in 1807 created attention. Sophie went travelling with her brother Ludwig to Rome where she met the Estonian Karl Gregor von Knorring. The three of them went on a grand tour of Munich, Prague and Vienna, before the couple set up house together in Munich.[4]

Tieck married again in 1810 to the Estonian and she converted because he was a Catholic, this caused enormous comment.[4] They moved in 1812 to his estate in Erwita. Her second husband supported his wife well. They lived in Heidelberg in 1820 and then in Estonia until she died in 1833. Tieck died in Talinn[1] and she was buried in the now destroyed Kopli Cemetery.

Legacy

Her novel was not published until 1836, three years after her death. Her son William also published three volumes of his parents stories in 1847 and in these it is clear which parent wrote which story.[5] Her letters were not available until the 1960s but she is now well regarded as a result. Her works are confused with those of her brother and her first husband.[2] Bertha, for example, a central figure in a plot twist in "her brother's" story Eckbert the Blond has been recognised as an unattributed invention by Sophie Tieck.[2]

Work

  • Bambocciaden. Band 2, Mitautor: August Ferdinand Bernhardi, Berlin 1799
  • Bambocciaden. Band 3, Mitautor: August Ferdinand Bernhardi, Berlin 1800
  • Lebensansicht. In: Athenaeum, Band 3, Berlin 1800
  • Ballade. S. 64–78, Bilder der Kindheit. S. 129–132 In: Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1802, Herausgeberschaft: August Wilhelm Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck Tübingen 1802
  • Wunderbilder und Träume in eilf Mährchen. Königsberg 1802
  • Dramatische Fantasien. Berlin 1804
  • Egidio und Isabella. Ein Trauerspiel in drei Aufzügen. In: Dichtergarten, Würzburg 1807, S. 183–334
  • Klagen I–IV. In: Dichtergarten, Würzburg 1807, S. 167–170
  • Flore und Blanscheflur. Berlin 1822
  • Evremont. Band 3, Breslau 1836
  • Reliquien: Erzählungen u. Dichtungen. Mitautor: August Ferdinand Bernhardi, Altenburg 1847

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sophie Tieck, utlib.ee, retrieved 4 February 2014
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Fischer, edited by Gerhard; Vassen, Florian (2010). Collective Creativity Collaborative Work in the Sciences, Literature and the Arts.. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 121 and on. ISBN 904203274X. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sophie Tieck, FemBio.org, retrieved 4 February 2014
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sophie Bernhardi, Epoch-Napoleon.net, retrieved 4 February 2014
  5. ↑ Ostrich feathers and other stories, retrieved February 2014
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