!!!Willemer, Marianne von geborene Pirngruber

b. Linz (?, Upper Austria), Nov. 20, 1784, 
d. Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Dec. 6, 1860, actress and poet. 
Illegitimate child of an actress, later legitimised by her father; 
married the Frankfurt banker J. J. von Willemer. A friend of Goethe 
from 1814; had decisive influence on the creation of the Suleika songs 
in the "West-oestlicher Divan" ("An den Ostwind", "An den Westwind").

!Literature
C. Kahn-Wallerstein, M. v. W. Goethes Suleika, 
1985; H. J. Mey (ed.), Im Namen Goethes. Der Briefwechsel 
M. v. W. und H. Grimm, 1988.



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