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Amalie Winter
1802–1879
A German poet and novelist from Weimar, she wrote under the name Amalie Winter and moved in the cultural world shaped by Goethe. Her fiction, poems, and translations helped carry that literary spirit into the 19th century.
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About the author
Born in Weimar in 1802, she published under the pen name Amalie Winter. Her full name was Amalie Karoline Charlotte Wilhelmine Henriette von Seebach, and after marriage she was also known as Amalie von Groß. She is remembered as a German poet, novelist, and translator.
Sources on her life agree that she grew up in close contact with the literary culture of Weimar and became acquainted early on with the circle around Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. That background shaped her writing, and she later contributed to the lively world of 19th-century German literature with novels, poems, and other prose works.
She died in 1879, but her name still appears in literary reference works and public-domain collections, which is a good sign of the place she held in her time. For listeners today, her work offers a glimpse of the refined, story-rich tradition that grew out of classical Weimar.