Claretta Cerio

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Claretta Cerio (born April 22, 1927 on Capri as Claretta Wiedermann ; † August 26, 2019 ) was an Italian writer and the second wife of the writer Edwin Cerio (1875-1960).

Life

Life and work revolved around the island of Capri. Her grandfather, the painter August Weber from Munich, had settled on Capri around 1880, married a Capres woman and opened a pension. Claretta's German-Italian mother married a German from Sylt . In her memoirs “Concerned”, Claretta Cerio described her childhood between the two islands of Capri and Sylt and her attendance at the German school in Rome during the Second World War.

After graduating from high school, Cerio studied philology at the University of Naples and received his doctorate on the subject of "Capri in German literature". The meeting with Edwin Cerio was decisive for her career. Cerio, author of numerous books on the history of Capri and its temporary mayor, was at the center of the island's artistic life. In 1953 the two married. In various books Claretta described the international artist scene on Capri. In addition, she wrote novels, crime stories and texts for photo books about the island. Most of the books were written in German.

Claretta Cerio had lived in Tuscany since 1970 . She died on August 26, 2019.

Works

  • Capri . Together with Yvonne Meyer-Lohr and Umberto D'Aniello (photographer), Prestel Verlag Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3864-4
  • Longing for Capri . Orbis Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • In the light of Tuscany . Harenberg Verlag Dortmund 1992
  • The nanno dies and other crime stories . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-42663-3 .
  • Arietta di Capri . Stories. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-7653-0323-2 .
  • Worried . Autobiography. Schneekluth, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7951-0648-6 .
  • Blood in the Chianti . Crime stories. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-42493-2 .
  • Rome and your love . Novel. Schneekluth, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7951-3010-7 .
  • A hot summer . Novel. Schneekluth, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7951-0270-7 .
  • Chrysanthemums on Capri . Detective novel. Schneekluth, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7951-0202-2 .
  • My capri . Mareverlag, Hamburg 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claretta Cerio In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century Volume 1: Butenschön - Dedo. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2003, page 234.
  2. ^ Obituary for an Italian with roots in Sylt - "Life is an imposition". In: Sylter Rundschau . August 29, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Jobst C. Knigge: Edwin Cerios Capri. A small world theater in the Mediterranean. A contribution to the cultural history of Capri, Berlin 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cerio, Claretta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiedermann, Claretta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH capri
DATE OF DEATH 26th August 2019