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Bettine von Arnim (née Brentano) was a free spirit, as it appears in the book and it can slow down either by censorship or conventions. They once led the young Karl Marx through Berlin's slums, she wrote about the first one of the first and also very extensive sociological studies. They constantly and publicly criticized the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the brothers Grimm helped them to a position in Berlin.
also from the former Convention, the values love affair (whether former or current) never in the Public first-name basis to let them be little warm impress and it flew only once, probably not in homes of poets and thinkers. But once in Goethe, for his wife Christine was not at all obvious right.
The list of her lovers is long, which is used by the Prince of Herman Pückler Muskau: "1 Goethe, 2 Schinkel, 3 Schleiermacher, 4 Rumohr, 5 I, 6 . Carolath "and he remarked:" To be honest, increases down the scale. " But Beethoven was on their list. It is alleged that to her first meeting the following have happened: She storms in Vienna be the music room and he whispers her name into his ear. Beethoven's reply: "I have just made a beautiful song for you": he plays, she is crying ... ..
PS: by Bettine's own account it was the song "Do you know the land", the text of Goethe's way ... .. ;)
