Katharina Kippenberg Lecture 2026 (I): Astrid Dröse: Populärer Klassizismus und weibliches Weimar. Caroline von Wolzogens Dramenfragment „Der leukadische Fels“

In the organizer's words:

Caroline von Wolzogen is one of the defining figures of "Female Weimar". She is best known to a wider public today thanks to Dominik Graf's Schiller film "Beloved Sisters" (2014). But who was Schiller's sister-in-law really - and what role did she play in Weimar Classicism? The lecture sheds light on Caroline von Wolzogen as an author and intellectual and explores the possibilities and limits of female writing around 1800, focusing on her drama fragment "Der leukadische Fels", which takes up the myth of the singer Sappho and which Wolzogen was able to publish in Schiller's journal "Neue Thalia". This example illustrates how female authors helped to shape the classical program - and at the same time struggled for literary visibility.