Her parents were the playwright, Privy Councilor (``Geheimrat'') and archivist Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter and Louise Gotter (n*e Stiege). Her mother was a close friend of Caroline Schlegel (n*e Michaelis), while her father had been close friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe since his youth. Pauline Gotter had two sisters and knew Goethe and Caroline Schlegel from childhood on. In her youth she was friends with Sylvie von Ziegesar and the painter Louise Seidler.
Pauline Gotter
Caroline Schlegel