Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.
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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.
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
…The following year, 1772, Lenz accompanied the Kleist brothers to the garrisons of Landau, Fort Louis and Wissembourg. He also fell in love with Friederike Brion, once the beloved of Goethe, but his feelings were not reciprocated. In 1773 Lenz returned to Strasbourg and resumed his studies. The following year…
Friederike Brion imagined in Alsatian attire
Parsonage of Sessenheim around 1770. Drawing by Goethe