Baroness Sidonie Nádherná of Borutín, later Countess Sidonie of Thun und Hohenstein (Czech: Sidonie Nádherná z Borutína; 1 December 1885 – 30 September 1950) was a Bohemian noblewoman known for hosting literary salons and her correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke and Karl Kraus.
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Baroness Sidonie Nádherná of Borutín, later Countess Sidonie of Thun und Hohenstein (Czech: Sidonie Nádherná z Borutína; 1 December 1885 – 30 September 1950) was a Bohemian noblewoman known for hosting literary salons and her correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke and Karl Kraus.
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Early life and ancestry
Born at her family residence, a castle in Vrchotovy Janovice, into a family that belonged to the Bohemian nobility, Sidonie Amálie Vilemína Karolína Julie Marie Nádherná von Borutín was the youngest child of a landowner, Karel Boromejský Jan Ludvík Baron Nádherný von Borutín (1849–1895), and his wife, Baroness Amalie Klein von Wisenberg (1854–1910), youngest daughter of the Bohemian businessman of German origin Albert Baron Klein von Wisenberg (1807–1877).
Her older brothers were Jan Karel Ludvík Sidonius Adalbert Julius Otmar Maria (1884–1913) and Karel Maria Ludvík Hubert Adalbert Nádherný von Borutín (1885–1931).
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Biography Nádherná gained literary fame through her friendship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom she corresponded from 1906 until his death in 1926, and her friendship and later romantic relationship with the writer Karl Kraus. Nádherná met Kraus on 8 September 1913, in Vienna's Café Imperial. Their relationship, often filled with intensity and conflict, lasted until his death in 1936. Kraus would likely have married her, but Rilke objected to Kraus' "inextinguishable difference" (a reference to his Jewish heritage). In 1914, Nádherná sought to make an influential marriage to a count that could have helped hinder World War I. She reconciled with Kraus in 1915, who wrote much of his drama The Last Days of Humanity at her residence, castle in Vrchotovy Janovice, but they separated again at the end of the war. In 1920, Nádherná married the Austrian physician, Count Maximilian von Thun und Hohenstein (1887–1935) at Heiligenkreuz Abbey, but the relationship did not last. They separated a year later, and divorced in 1933. Nádherná and Kraus reunited and split several more times, eventually reconciling one last time in 1927, although their relationship was no longer romantic. Sidonie von Nádherná's correspondence with Rilke and Kraus, now published,…
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Biography
Alena Wagnerová: Das Leben der Sidonie Nádherný. Eine Biographie. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-50543-1.
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Correspondence
Elke Lorenz: 'Sei Ich ihr, sei mein Bote'. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Sidonie Nádherný und Albert Bloch, Iudicium, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89129-742-4 (German / English).
Karl Kraus: Briefe an Sidonie Nádherný von Borutin. 1913–1936, 2 volumes, published by Friedrich Pfäfflin, Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89244-934-8.
Rainer Maria Rilke – Sidonie Nádherný von Borutin, Briefwechsel 1906–1926, published by Joachim W. Storck in collaboration with Waltraud und Friedrich Pfäfflin, Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-983-6.
Friedrich Pfäfflin, Alena Wagnerová (ed.): Gartenschönheit oder Die Zerstörung von Mitteleuropa: Sidonie Nádherný – Briefe an Václav Wagner 1942–1949 Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1618-8.