Arlette Pielmann

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Arlette Pielmann (born June 4, 1937 in Wuppertal as Arlette Gisela Tigges ; † December 12, 1978 near Ulm ) was a German actress , painter , model , Bohemian , muse and lover of Theodor W. Adorno .

Life

Arlette's father Gerd Tigges was a wealthy screw manufacturer from Wuppertal. The Tigges company from Wuppertal still exists today. In 1958 she married the painter Edmund Georg Pielmann against her father's wishes , whereupon she was disinherited as the firstborn of three children. In 1959, their daughter Claudia Pielmann was born. After almost two years, the marriage ended in divorce.

Arlette starred in the 1965 episode film Das Liebeskarussell (3rd episode: Dorothea). Her circle of friends included Hanna Schygulla , Edgar Reitz , Alexander Kluge and Theodor W. Adorno, who were often guests in their apartment on Hohenzollernplatz in Munich. From 1962 to 1969 she was Theodor W. Adorno's confidante and lover. She visited him regularly in Frankfurt am Main - Adorno's wife Gretel knew about it.

In March 1967, Arlette Pielmann and the film producer Walter Krüttner married . The marriage failed after about a year.

In December 1978, Arlette Pielmann was killed in a car accident: Coming from Hamburg - as a representative for pacemakers - she was at the wheel of her Mercedes , which skidded on a motorway slip road near Ulm and hit a tree. Claudia Pielmann destroyed Adorno's handwritten letters from her mother's estate. In 2013, Jan Philipp Reemtsma and Christoph Gödde handed over the correspondence from TW Adorno to Arlette Pielmann (1962–1968) to Claudia Pielmann.

literature

  • Heinrich Adolf: Adorno's Bartered Bride - Reconstruction of a Relationship. The forgotten lover. In: Stefan Müller-Doohm : Adorno portraits . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007.

Audio

  • The unregulated happiness Arlette and Adorno, WDR 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ina Hartwig: Arlette and her Adorno , DIE ZEIT No. 41/2012
  2. ↑ a b WDR Radio 2/2014: Feature Theodor W. Adorno and the unregulated happiness "Place me dead, hope to live" ( Memento from January 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pielmann, Arlette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tigges, Arlette Gisela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, painter, photo model
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1978
Place of death near Ulm