Charlotte Buff
Charlotte Buff-Kestner by Johann Heinrich Schröder (Maler)
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, a diplomat and art collector. 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. 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.
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- ↑ "Charlotte Buff-Kestner". FemBio. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- 1 2 Mandelkow, Karl Robert (1962). Goethes Briefe. Vol. 1: Briefe der Jahre 1764-1786. Christian Wegner Verlag. p. 590-592
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