Lili Parthey (real name Elisabeth Parthey (1800–1829) was a German writer whose diaries are regarded as important historical testimonies to the Biedermeier era.
Life Parthey was a granddaughter of Friedrich Nicolai and a sister of Gustav Parthey. She received singing lessons from Amalie SebaldHubertus Büschel, Untertanenliebe. Der Kult um deutsche Monarchen 1770-1830 (Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, , and married Bernhard Klein in 1825. The marriage produced a daughter.Ausstellung Berliner Chic Parthey's diaries were printed in 1926 by her grandson . These notes give a vivid picture of the bourgeois lifestyle of their time.M. Rainer Lepsius, Demokratie in Deutschland. Soziologisch-historische Konstellationsanalysen. Ausgewählte Aufsätze, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993, , The diaries written between 1814 and 1829 are owned by her family. They were shown in 2007 as part of the exhibition Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit at the Berlin Stadtmuseum; parts of them, read by Blanche Kommerell, were available in individual rooms of the exhibition.Pressemitteilungen zu Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit In 2012 they were displayed in the exhibition geSchichten und beFunde at the Märkisches Museum.Anouk Meyer, Kunst unterm Tomograph, in Neues Deutschland, 14 February 2012
A portrait of Parthey from the time around 1825 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow shows her in the typical Biedermeier fashion with almost shoulderless dress, unadorned neck, centre parting, curly canes and chignon;Frisörmuseum Eckernförde On 23 July 1823, Goethe dedicated these verses to her: Du hattest gleich mir's angethan, Doch nun gewahr ich neues Leben; Ein süßer Mund blickt uns gar freundlich an, Wenn er uns einen Kuß gegeben.Renate Grumach (Hg.), Goethe. Begegnungen und Gespräche, Band XIV, De Gruyter 2001, ,
Further reading Rudolf Danke: Eine Berlinerin bezaubert den alten Goethe. Den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Lili Partheys nacherzählt,Eine Berlinerin bezaubert den alten Goethe. Den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Lili Partheys nacherzählt in Die Geschichte Berlins in Jahrbuch "Der Bär von Berlin", published by , volume 12, Berlin 1963.
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