Doris von Schönthan

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Doris von Schönthan in 1927 (press photo)

Doris von Schönthan (* 1905 in Worms , † 1961 in Paris ), born as Maria-Dorothea husband (also Doris husband; Doris von Salomon; Doris de Salomon; Maria-Dorothea von Salomon; Maria-Dorothea von Schönthan; Maria-Dorothea von Salomon-Schönthan; Doris von Salomon-Schönthan), called "Dorinde", was a German model , copywriter , journalist and photographer . She is characterized as a colorful figure of the Weimar Republic or the bohemian of the Roaring Twenties .

Family and friends

As an early orphan, she was adopted by the Berlin comedy writer Franz von Schönthan Edler von Pernwaldt, who, together with his brother Paul, became known for the comedy The Robbery of the Sabine Women and who worked behind the scenes, for example, in operettas based on music by Eduard Künneke . Professionally, she was partly employed and partly freelance, for example for a Berlin "Reklamedienst Amerika Stiles" (advertising agency), for Berlin daily newspapers, magazines and illustrated magazines. She was portrayed in drawings by Paul Citroen , but also in 1927 by the contemporary cultural magazine Der Cross-Section .

Doris von Schönthan, portrayed in 1927 for the cultural magazine Der Cross-Section through Zander & Labisch

She belonged to the circle of friends around the closely related siblings Erika and Klaus Mann , in which she Grete Dispeker (later married Weil), her friend from their childhood days at Tegernsee , the brothers Edgar (1908-1941) and Hans Joseph Weil (1906-1969 ) and their friend Walter Jockisch (1907–1970) integrated. Grete Dispeker admired her as a cherubine .

The writer Franz Hessel fell in love with her and dedicated his Doris texts to her with publicity (including Leichtes Berliner Frühlingfieber , some texts in Nachfeier , both titles from 1929). During walks together through Berlin, she used it as a pretext to be able to photograph people unnoticed by apparently aiming at him at a suitable point with her camera in order to deceive the actual photo motifs or to lull them into safety. In reality, she took photos past him, for example in Schöneberg's Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park, or people stepping out of the KaDeWe after shopping and strolling past its blue-uniformed porter with a sheepdog. She was looking for types: a park bench with "women", another with old men, scuffling little boys, children playing in the sandpit, ball players, a "slutty Venus" in the royal colonnades , women and men with " pince-nez ", an old toilet woman ...

Doris von Schönthan had a love triangle with Hessel and Hilmar Adolf Otto Maximilian Thankmar von Münchhausen (1894–1976) at the end of the 1920s. She was also good friends with Ruth Landshoff-Yorck and Walter Benjamin , Walter Hasenclever and Alfred Kantorowicz , described by them as a “lovely woman”, as “tall and slim, of fragile grace, nervous endangered” or as “lean and funny” or as “very thin, disheveled, extremely forgetful and scattered”.

Klaus Mann described her in his diary as a “companion of my border crossings between self-awareness and self-destruction”: “Great evening with Doris. Looking for cocaine. With transvestites taxi into the city [...] Finally the stuff. To Doris. Taken. ”For a moment he considered marrying her. She remained friends with him until his death in Cannes and also supported him financially. She took him to a clinic in Nice for detox on May 4, 1949 , after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Von Schönthan informed Thomas Mann , who was staying at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, by telegram on May 21, 1949 about Klaus' critical condition. On the same evening, she informed the Mann family and friends of Klaus Mann's death by telephone.

Political Resistance

In 1933 she distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the Reich capital together with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Friedrich Wolf . Politically persecuted people like Rudolf Olden found shelter in their apartment. When she strictly refused to formulate in the sense of the Nazi diction, it became so dangerous for her that she emigrated to France. This she learned in Paris the political activist Bruno Salomon know; both married. During the attack by the Wehrmacht in May and June 1940, both were interned as hostile foreigners around a thousand kilometers apart , they were interned in southern France, but were then able to resume their resistance work and join the Resistance .

Return to Germany

In 1952 she returned to Germany; life in emigration and the illegality caused by the resistance had shattered her physically and mentally. Her husband died that same year. Between 1952 and 1954 she was admitted to a mental hospital, fled from there and called Alfred Kantorowicz from the Berlin Friedrichstrasse train station, crying and talking confusedly. She tried in vain to seek redress from the authorities for her persecution during the Nazi era. The glamor girl of the Weimar period became lonely and increasingly slipped away. She became impoverished, attempted suicide, and eventually became homeless. After she could not pay for a meal in a Berlin pub, she was taken into custody for dodging . Her four-page letter to the German journalist and publicist Manfred George , who had been in exile since 1933 and whom she knew personally from a joint journalistic period before 1933, has survived from November 1961 . Resigned, she is said to have emigrated again to France, where she died of a stroke in Paris .

Movie

Doris von Schönthan was portrayed in the three-part television film Die Manns - A novel of the century by Heinrich Breloer from 2001 by the actress Naomi Krauss .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salomon, Doris von . Index entry in: German biography. From: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Salomon, Doris von . Index entry in: Kalliope network. From: kalliope-verbund.info, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Eckhardt Köhn: The sad story of Dorinde. Klaus Mann's companion, Franz Hessel's muse: Memory of Doris von Schönthan . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 84 (2000), April 8, 2000, supplement, p. IV.
  4. ↑ a b Ulla Plener: Women from Germany in the French Resistance - A Documentation . Edition Bodoni, 2006. ISBN 978-3-929390-90-2 , pp.?.
  5. ↑ a b c d Martin Stolzenau: Doris von Schönthan . In: Neues Deutschland , December 11, 2004, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  6. ^ Euphorion, Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, Volume 98, Issues 1–4, C. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, p. 196.
  7. ↑ Ruth Yorck: Gossip, fame and small fire: Biographical impressions . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1963, DNB 452698561 , p. 34.
  8. ↑ Photo: Doris von Schönthan in 1927 (1). On: gettyimages.de, accessed on July 15, 2017
    Photo: Doris von Schönthan in 1927 (2). From: gettyimages.de, accessed on July 15, 2017
  9. ↑ Grete Weil . On: kuenste-im-exil.de, accessed on July 15, 2017
    Waldemar Fromm, Wolfram Göbel: Friends of Monacensia e. V. - Yearbook 2009 . Books on Demand, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86906-038-5 , p. 87.
  10. ↑ a b Magali Laure Nieradka: The master of the quiet tones - biography of the poet Franz Hessel . Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86815-590-7 , p. 86.
  11. ^ Franz Hessel: Diary Notes (1928-1932) , p. 40.
    Franz Hessel: Doris im Regen . In: Franz Hessel: Nachfeier . In: Franz Hessel: Werke 2 - prose collections , p. 278.
  12. ↑ Magali Laure Nieradka: The master of the quiet tones - biography of the poet Franz Hessel . Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86815-590-7 , p. 120.
    Katharina Lunau: L'homme personnage: literary self-fashioning and strategies of self-fictionalization by Henri-Pierre Roché . Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-86815-510-5 , p. 258.
  13. ↑ Cristina Fischer: Between Fear and Heroism - Women from Germany in the French Resistance . In: Our time , March 10, 2006. From: dkp-online.de, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  14. ^ Walter Benjamin: Collected works: Literary and aesthetic essays + reviews + satires + autobiographical writings . e-artnow, 2015, ISBN 978-8026828112 . Quote: “19. September 1928: I stayed at home in the evening, despite an appointment with [Gustav] Glück, Doris [von Schönthan] etc. […] Soon while I was reading, I had to think of the particular intensity with which Doris had told me the book. It occurred to me that it might have played a role in her love for Thankmar [von Münchhausen] and I felt like stealing it. "
  15. ^ Walter Hasenclever: Letters in Two Volumes 1907-1940, Vol. 1: 1907-1932 . Hase and Koehler Verlag, Mainz 1994, ISBN 978-3-7758-1324-2 , p. 373.
  16. ^ A b c Alfred Kantorowicz: Exile in France: Oddities and Memorabilia . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-561098-5 , p.
  17. ↑ Carmen Giese: The I in the literary work of Grete Weil and Klaus Mann: Two overall autobiographical concepts . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-31204-9 , p. 41.
  18. ↑ Fredric Kroll (ed.): Klaus Mann series of publications: 1927–1933, Before the Flood . Männerschwarm-Verlag, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 978-3-935596-93-0 , p. 85.
  19. ^ André Sokolowski: Klaus Mann dies . epubli, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3737545679 , p.?. Quote: “I was considering marrying her the other day. Doris, why Doris, it's nonsense, nonsense, a hysterical idea, what would I have to do for her, no. "
  20. ↑ Katharina Rutschky: Restlessness and thirst for experience . In: Die Zeit 37 (1989), September 8, 1989, accessed on July 15, 2017.
    Manfred Flügge: The Century of Manns . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8412-0880-4 , p.
  21. ↑ Loek Zonneveld: Door het loose . In: De Groene Amsterdamer, December 16, 2000, accessed July 15, 2017.
  22. ↑ Tilman Lahme: The Manns - History of a Family . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-402263-5 , p.
  23. ^ Thomas OH Kaiser: Klaus Mann. A writer in the floods of time: inventory and critical appraisal of life and work . Book on Demand, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-7230-6 , p. 439.
    Salomon, Doris von . From: kalliope-verbund.de, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  24. ^ Alfred Kantorowicz: Night Books - Notes in French Exile 1935 to 1939 . Edited by Ursula Büttner, Angelika Voss, Research Center for the History of National Socialism. Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1247-1 , pp. 145, 206, 232, 235, 240.
  25. ^ Letter from Doris von Solomons to Manfred George dated November 1, 1961 . From: kalliope-verbund.info, accessed on July 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schönthan, Doris von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husband, Maria-Dorothea (maiden name); Husband, Doris; Salomon, Doris von; Salomon, Doris de; Salomon, Maria-Dorothea von; Schönthan, Maria-Dorothea von; Salomon-Schönthan, Doris von; Salomon-Schönthan, Maria-Dorothea von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German model, copywriter, journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH 1961
Place of death Paris