Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler.

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760) was a German poet and writer. She is best known for the texts of nine cantatas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed after Easter of 1725.

Biography

Ziegler was born in Leipzig. As a widow in the 1730s, Ziegler turned her family home into a literary and musical salon. Johann Christoph Gottsched encouraged her poetic activity. She became the first woman member of Gottsched's literary society, the Deutsche Gesellschaft. Johann Sebastian Bach set some of Ziegler's poetry to music in 1725, including his cantatas

• Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103 22 April 1725
• Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe, BWV 108 29 April 1725
• Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128
• Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183
• Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175

Bibliography

• Vermischte Schriften in gebundener und ungebunder Rede [Miscellaneous writings in verse and prose] (1739)

Further reading

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
• Katherine R. Goodman "Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment" Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999. ISBN 1-57113-138-8.
• Katherine R. Goodman, "From Salon to Kaffeekranz. Gender Wars and the Coffee Cantata in Bach's Leipzig" in Bach's Changing World. Voices in the Community. ed. Carol Baron. Rochester, N. Y." University of Rochester P., 2006. pp. 190-218. ISBN 1-58046-190-5
• Katherine R. Goodman, "'Ich bin die deutsche Redlichkeit.' Christiane mariane von Ziegler's letters to Johann Ernst Philippi" Daphnis 29/1-2 (2000), pp. 307=354.

External links

• Literature by and about Christiana Mariana von Ziegler in the German National Library catalogue
• Werke von Christiana Mariana von Ziegler Zeno.org Template:De icon
• Biografie, Literatur & Quellen zu Christiane Marianne von Ziegler fembio.org Template:De icon
• Frauen und Universität im Jahrhundert der Aufklärung University of Leipzig