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The green parlor in Speyer
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Mon - Fri 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sat 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Guided tours of groups by prior arrangement with the Tourist-Information Bureau of the City of Speyer
Memorial
Maximilianstraße 99
Telephone: (0 62 32) 14 23 92
Biography
A Speyer Tip: Sophie′s World
Sophie von La Roche qualifies as the first German writer, who wrote a morally critical novel. On her 275th birthday on December 6, 2005, the City of Speyer opened a memorial in the so-called Hohenfelder House at Maximilianstraße 99, to remind us of her works.
With great love of detail, the two literary academics, Klaus Haag and Jürgen Vorderstemann, with the support of the State Library Center and the State Library of the Palatinate, have put together a commemorative room in the magnificent late Baroque house that brings her times and her life alive.
The writer spent six years in Speyer and during this time, published the first women’s literary magazine in the German-speaking world. It was called “Pomona”, after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards. In her extensive work, in reports about meetings in the “literary salon” of the writer and in her correspondence, we find lasting traces of famous contemporary writers. Sophie von La Roche was the grandmother of Bettina and Clemens Brentano. She was a widely read moralistic and pedagogical storyteller of sentimentality and ranks as one of the most important epistolary novelists of the late phase of the Enlightenment.
Reference
Klaus Haag and Jürgen Vorderstemann (Hg.) Meine liebe grüne Stube. Die Schriftstellerin Sophie von La Roche in ihrer Speyerer Zeit (1780-1786), Speyer 2005.
ISBN 3-929242-36-2
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