Christian Gottfried Körner

Plays and essays were read; Singspiele and chamber music were performed; and lectures on art were given.

[2]Körner went so far as to have a small theatre built in his home, at which his family and friends performed plays.

Having declared "I am more German than Saxon" in a letter to a friend, he and his family moved to Berlin, where Prussian policies more aligned with his beliefs.

He edited the works of his deceased son (Poetischer Nachlass Theodor Körners, 1815).

[5] They lived, throughout their entire marriage, with the artist Dora Stock, Minna's older sister, with whom they were both close.

Both died young: Theodor in 1813 as a casualty of war, and Emma of a sudden illness in 1815; the parents were devastated at their loss.