Celia von Bismarck

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Celia von Bismarck at the Quadriga 2008 award ceremony

Celia Countess von Bismarck (nee Celia Anouk Demaurex , born October 19, 1971 in Geneva , † December 17, 2010 in Chêne-Bougeries ) was a Swiss consultant, mainly for cultural and socio-political foundations. From 2006 until her death she was ambassador for the Swiss Red Cross .

Life

Celia Demaurex - daughter of real estate investor Michel Demaurex and jewelry designer Rosemarie Grethe - grew up in Geneva. She studied in Boston , Paris and Berlin , including international relations. In 1990 Celia Demaurex met the later manager and politician Carl-Eduard Graf von Bismarck at the Monaco Grand Prix , whom she married in June 1997 in Geneva and moved to his family palace in Friedrichsruh . The marriage was divorced in September 2004, but she kept the name Celia Countess von Bismarck, under which she had become known to the public.

From 2003 to 2005 Celia von Bismarck worked at the Geneva Center for Security Policy and took part in conferences in Kosovo and Serbia , among others . In August 2005 she took up the position of Chief of Protocol at the Hamburg Film Festival . In Berlin she worked as a consultant and worked for the non-profit organization Dropping Knowledge . From January 2007 to January 2008 she was editor at large (freelance editor) for Park Avenue magazine . In 2009 and 2010 she worked for the Aga Khan Development Network .

Bismarck also volunteered. From 1998 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mentor Foundation Germany, an international institution for young people at risk of addiction that works with the UN . Since 2004 she has also been involved in the Cinema for Peace Foundation , a global platform for films that are regarded as peacebuilding, critical artists and the promotion of aid projects. From 2005 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Berlin Werkstatt Deutschland and a jury member for the Quadriga media prize . Since 2006 she has been the ambassador of the Swiss Red Cross and campaigned for education and health in developing countries . She accompanied projects in Romania, Swaziland, Honduras and Cambodia.

Bismarck was a regular member of fashion juries and in April 2008 was the sponsor of the Visa Swap Shop fashion project in cooperation with Oxfam . The concept of the first German clothing swap shop for designer clothing in Berlin had already been successfully implemented in London a year earlier.

In autumn 2010 Celia von Bismarck was diagnosed with malignant melanoma with metastasis , of which she died eight weeks later.

Web links

Commons : Celia von Bismarck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Countess Celia von Bismarck dies of cancer , blick.ch of December 19, 2010
  2. ↑ a b For the record: Celia von Bismarck , Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 10, 2005
  3. ↑ Dropping Knowledge - About us
  4. ↑ Quadriga Kuratorium Quadriga 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / loomarea.com  
  5. ↑ Celia von Bismarck and Jimmy Wales at the Quadriga Awards 2008
  6. ↑ Kuratorium Quadriga 2007 ( Memento of October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  7. ↑ Kuratorium Quadriga 2006 ( Memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  8. ↑ Red Cross Switzerland: In action for life, health and dignity ( Memento from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Red Cross Switzerland: Recordings of a trip to the poor house in Europe ( Memento from March 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 859 kB)
  10. ↑ My visit to Swaziland , picture online from March 14, 2008
  11. ↑ Swaziland made me a great gift , picture online from March 19, 2008
  12. ↑ Visiting Honduras , picture online from April 15, 2008
  13. ↑ I want to see, hear, feel , time online from January 28, 2010
  14. ↑ Germany has its first swap shop , Die Welt from April 2, 2008
  15. ↑ Fatal skin cancer. In: taz from December 20, 2010
  16. ↑ Celia von Bismarck died. In: n-tv.de from December 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Bismarck, Celia from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bismarck, Celia Countess von (full name); Demaurex, Celia Anouk (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss consultant, mainly for cultural and socio-political foundations
DATE OF BIRTH 19th October 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2010
Place of death Chêne-Bougeries