Inge Sargent

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Sao Kya Seng and Inge Eberhard (Sao Thusandi) with their two daughters

Inge Sargent (* 1932 in Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal as Inge Eberhard ) is an Austrian-American author and former princess of the Burmese principality of Hsipaw .

biography

Inge Eberhard was born the daughter of a forester. In the early 1950s she traveled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship to study. There she met the Burmese student of mining science Sao Kya Seng at the University of Colorado , whom she married in 1953 in Denver. Only when they arrived in Burma did he identify himself as the Prince of Hsipaw, a principality in Shan State . There Inge Eberhard took the name Sao Thusandi .

In Hsipaw, both tried to modernize the country and fight corruption and child mortality. After Shan State was denied its promised independence in 1962, the Burmese military under General Ne Win disempowered the local princes and placed the region under central government. Prince Sao Kya Seng was also arrested. His fate is still unclear today. His wife Inge Eberhard was placed under house arrest, but was able to flee to the USA via Austria in 1964 with their two daughters.

In 1968 she married Howard Sargent in the USA. Her autobiography was published in 1994 and was filmed in 2015 under the title Twilight Over Burma .

Publications

  • Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess, Kolowalu Books, Honolulu 1994

German translations:

  • My life as Sao Thusandi, Princess the Shan, Bastei-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1997
  • Dawn over Burma. My life as a Shan princess, Unionsverlag, Zurich 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wie-aus-einer-kaerntner-oberfoersterst Nahrungsmittel-eine-birmesische-prinzessin-und-eine-amerikanische-menschenrechtsaktivistin-wurde-das-bewegungte-leben-der-inge- sargent -es-ist-ein-grosses-land-darling-li.27338 In: Berliner Zeitung December 30, 2006, accessed on May 21, 2020
  2. ↑ http://www.unionsverlag.com/info/person.asp?pers_id=1804
  3. ↑ Inge Eberhard: A heavenly regent from the Lavant valley. In: derStandard.at. October 15, 2012, accessed December 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sargent, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inge Eberhard, Sao Thusandi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad St. Leonhard in Lavanttal