Friederike Brion
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Friederike Elisabeth Brion was a parson's daughter who had a short but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Friederike Brion imagined in Alsatian attire
Parsonage of Sessenheim around 1770. Drawing by Goethe
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.
Friederike Brion
…Friederike's older sister Maria Salomea married Gottfried Marx from Strasbourg, who had just become parson in Diersburg (today Hohberg). In summer 1772, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz courted Friederike, who was still strongly suffering from her lover's grief. But Friederike stayed unmarried till the end of her life and lived in her…
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