Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (15 January 1711 – 11 December 1740), known as die Zäunemännin, was a German
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
. Zäunemann was inspired by the example of
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (28 June 1695 – 1 May 1760) was a German poet and writer. She is best known for the texts of nine cantatas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed after Easter in 1725.
Biography
Christiana Mariana Romanus was born ...
. She became
Poet Laureate of
Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
at the age of twenty-four.
[BOHM, ARND. “The Transgressions of Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann.” Colloquia Germanica, vol. 33, no. 1, 2000, pp. 21–41. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23982181. Accessed 19 May 2025.]
Selected works
* ''Das Ilmenauische Bergwerk ...'' (The Mine at Ilmenau) (1737)
Further reading
* ''Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature''
References
External links
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1711 births
1740 deaths
Writers from Erfurt
People from the Electorate of Mainz
German women poets
University of Göttingen alumni
18th-century German women writers
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