Charlotte von Gwinner

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Charlotte von Gwinner (Charlotte von Wedel) (born October 13, 1891 in Berlin , † May 20, 1972 in Starnberg ) was a German writer.

Charlotte (Lotti) von Gwinner was a daughter of the bank director Arthur Gwinner and Anna Speyer, a daughter of the banker Philipp Speyer , and a granddaughter of Wilhelm Gwinner , the friend and executor of Arthur Schopenhauer . Her grandfather and thus the family were raised to hereditary nobility in 1908 .

On May 31, 1917, she married Bergrat and later Rittmeister d. In Krumke , the Altmark estate of her father, who was spokesman for the board of Deutsche Bank at the time. R. Berndt Janusch Bogislav von Wedel (* May 1, 1882 Belgard in Pomerania, † July 25, 1935 Berlin), a son of the farmer Bogislav von Wedel (-Komptendorf) and Anna von Berndt. The marriage remained childless and was divorced in 1921.

Charlotte von Gwinner lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg until the end of the war and then in Upper Bavaria. At times she worked as a photographer. Her publications appeared under her maiden name until 1943, since then under the name "Charlotte von Wedel", under which she became an honorary member of the Schopenhauer Society in 1966 .

Fonts

  • Editor: Wilhelm von Gwinner: Arthur Schopenhauer shown from personal contact. Critically reviewed and reissued with an appendix by Charlotte von Gwinner. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1922.
  • Editor: Wilhelm Gwinner: Arthur Schopenhauer, presented from personal contact: A look at his life, his character and the like. his teaching. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1963. 2nd edition Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1987. ISBN 978-3-7829-0349-3 .
  • Editor: Arthur Schopenhauer: Travel diaries from the years 1803–1804. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1923.
  • Franz Kuypers, Charlotte von Gwinner Greece. With 96 plates based on original photos by Charlotte von Gwinner and an overview map. F.Bruckmann AG, Munich 1935.
  • Charlotte von Gwinner: Seven letters from Caroline Medon to Arthur Schopenhauer. 30. Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society, 1943, pp. 207–213.
  • Kurt Lange, Charlotte von Wedel Egypt. Landscape and art. German Art Publishing House Berlin, 1943.
  • Charlotte von Wedel: Arthur von Gwinner. 43rd Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society, 1962, pp. 83–85.

literature

from Wedel, Charlotte. German Literature Lexicon . 34th volume. Berlin-Munich-Boston 2015.

personal data
SURNAME Gwinner, Charlotte from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1972
Place of death Starnberg