Caroline Schlegel-Schelling

She was the female center of the early romantic circle in Jena: Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer-Schlegel-Schelling, in second marriage married to August Wilhelm Schlegel, the co-founder of early romanticism, in third marriage to the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling. Her life was living literature, freedom with side effects. Her history alone is extraordinary enough. As a professor's daughter, she spent her first years in the surroundings of Göttingen University, surrounded by illustrious representatives of the German Enlightenment. Widowed early after a conventional marriage, she plunged into the adventure of the Mainz Republic. She takes the slogans of freedom literally and applies them to her own life - with all the consequences that, as she says, she "never laments". In a time that puts a lot up for discussion, a woman follows her own life's laws. The "young savages" of the Li.