Caroline Richter came to Berlin around 1819 as a chorister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
The "eternal bachelor" Schopenhauer, however, mistrusted her possible motives, which together with worries about her health and jealousy of other lovers of the singer was the reason why an engagement or marriage never came about.
When Schopenhauer fled from cholera in 1831, Medon refused to leave behind his almost nine-year-old son Carl; This led to the final break in the relationship, despite her letters in the following years to him, in which she said she was healthy.
He left her the sum of 5000 Prussian thalers, a considerable portion of his fortune, on the condition that his legacy should not fall explicitly to Carl or other heirs of Medon.
[1] Caroline Medon was buried at Evangelischen Sophien-Friedhof II in Berlin on 8 June 1892.