Set in the late eighteenth century Germany, The Blue Flower is based upon the life of Friedrich Von Hardenberg (Fritz) in the years before he became the famous romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. Novalis
The eldest son of a large noble family – there are only certain occupations open to Fritz because of his nobility – and Fritz’s father has firm ideas on what will be his future. Fritz’s education takes him to Jena and Leipzig, and then finally his father arranges for him to go to study under magistrate Kreisamtmann Coelestin Just, of Tennstedt to learn office management and administration. While staying in the Just household Fritz develops a touching friendship with his tutor’s niece Karoline with whom he later confides many of his thoughts and feelings. He reads Karoline the beginning of a story – never completed – that contains the image of the blue flower of the novel’s title. It is while here, through Kreisamtmann Just that Fritz is introduced to Herr Rockenthein and meets his twelve year old step-daughter Sophie. Fritz who is already twenty two – falls hopelessly in love with the young girl who is generally considered to be not very lovely and not very clever.

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