Charlotte Buff
Charlotte Buff | |
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![]() Charlotte Buff-Kestner by Johann Heinrich Schröder | |
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Died | 16 January 1828 | (aged 75)
Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner, vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court. The character of Lotte, in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, is partly based on her.[1][2] Their relationship was characterized by heartiness and lack of constraint.[clarification needed] Goethe bought the wedding rings for her and Kestner, in Frankfurt am Main.[2] Charlotte and Kestner had four daughters and eight sons, among them August Kestner.
Appearances in modern culture[]
- Within the 2010 German film Young Goethe in Love, the character of Charlotte Buff is portrayed by Miriam Stein.
References[]
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- ^ "Charlotte Buff-Kestner". FemBio. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mandelkow, Karl Robert (1962). Goethes Briefe. Vol. 1: Briefe der Jahre 1764-1786. Christian Wegner Verlag. pp. 590–592
Categories:
- 1753 births
- 1828 deaths
- People from Wetzlar
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Sorrows of Young Werther