Inge Feltrinelli

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Inge Feltrinelli at the presentation of the Charles Medal for European media , 2011

Inge Feltrinelli (née Schönthal; born November 24, 1930 in Essen ; † September 20, 2018 in Milan ) was a German-Italian photographer and publisher .

Life

Inge Schönthal was the daughter of Siegfried and Trudel Schönthal. Her father was Jewish and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938 , where he agreed to divorce his wife. In 1939 she married the professional officer Otto Heberling, who from then on was Inge's stepfather. As a “Jewish mixed race” she was supposed to leave the Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen shortly before the end of the war in March 1945 . When she was nineteen, she cycled 284 kilometers to Hamburg to become a photo reporter. She did an apprenticeship with the photographer Rosmarie Pierer and took on assignments for the women's magazine Constanze . In 1952 the editor of Constanze sent her to New York , where she photographed Greta Garbo , among others , who - withdrawn - was waiting at a traffic light on Madison Avenue . She was able to sell the Garbo snapshot to Life , the world's most important magazine for photographers.

She learned Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt know, who after 1953 Cuba sent to Ernest Hemingway (one of the authors of the house Rowohlt publishing house ) to take and take pictures. Inge Schönthal made her international breakthrough with the photo report. During the two-week stay on his finca, curious, very unusual portraits were created. Now the doors were also open to other great personalities and stars at home and abroad. In the early stages of photojournalism, for example, she photographed Pablo Picasso , John F. Kennedy , Marc Chagall , Allen Ginsberg , Simone de Beauvoir , Peter Handke , Fidel Castro and Gary Cooper .

In 1958 she met the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli at a party organized by Ledig-Rowohlt in Hamburg at the Rowohlt Verlag , and married him in 1960. She followed him to Milan , where her son Carlo was born in 1962. The marriage broke up due to Feltrinelli's communist activities in the late 1960s, and they divorced. From 1969 she was Vice President of the Feltrinelli publishing house and continued to run the business on her own after the death of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who died in 1972 under unknown circumstances. According to his own statement, it was difficult to be the boss in Italy in the 1960s, as women were mainly responsible for “children, kitchen and church”. She also had to assert herself against resentment against the Germans. After her husband's death, in order to react to market trends, she changed the program and moved fewer political titles.

In addition to politically active literature, it now also published books on fashion and lifestyle, as well as sound carriers, cookbooks and e-books, thus ensuring the publisher's economic survival through the ages. She built up a bookstore chain in Italy, the branches of which were characterized by small cafes and reading corners and were soon represented in around 100 cities.

In 1998 her son Carlo Feltrinelli took over the management of the publishing house. Inge Feltrinelli remained its president. Most recently, she was mainly responsible for public relations, opened bookshops, maintained contacts with international authors and appeared at trade fairs and conferences.

Honors

Inge Feltrinelli has received many national and international awards: in 1986 she was made Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , in 1999 she received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2002 she became Commandeur des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , in 2006 she received the international publisher's award Reconocimiento al Mérito Editorial and in 2008 the Spanish royal family made her a member of the European Academy of Yuste . There are also numerous honorary doctorates. Feltrinelli was an honorary citizen of the city of Milan . Since 2004 she was a member of the supervisory board of the Siegfried and Ulla Unseld family foundation of the Suhrkamp publishing house . On May 26, 2011 she was awarded the Charles Medal for European Media .

Exhibitions

In 2010 an exhibition of around 80 of her photographs from the 1950s was shown in the old town hall of Göttingen . A photo of her went around the world: Inge Feltrinelli posed with Ernest Hemingway and a Marlin (Marlin) ; she shot it with the self-timer of her camera in Cuba in 1953. During the two-week stay on his finca, Hemingway took another photo of him lying on the floor in a ringed T-shirt and sleeping.

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Inge Schönthal-Feltrinelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publisher and photographer Inge Feltrinelli died at the age of 87 , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on September 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Inge Schönthal: hainberg-gymnasium.de, accessed on January 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Seize the Right Moment: Inge Feltrinelli . In: 032c.com. (Illustrated interview with Inge Feltrinelli).
  4. ↑ Michael Sontheimer : Photographer Inge Feltrinelli: The specialist for the cheeky and frivolous. In. Der Spiegel from February 26, 2014
  5. ^ Jobst C. Knigge: Hemingway and the Germans. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2009.
  6. ↑ "What counts is that you catch the decisive moment" , sueddeutsche.de, April 23, 2012, accessed on September 21, 2018
  7. ↑ "Women are not as vain as men" , spiegel.de, October 10, 2001, accessed on January 20, 2011
  8. ↑ Andreas Rossmann : It all started with Hemingway. Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 21, 2018, p. 14
  9. ↑ Quoted from weblink boersenblatt.net
  10. ↑ Bettina Flitner : Women with Visions - 48 European women. With texts by Alice Schwarzer . Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-211-X , p. 82.
  11. ^ Photograph by Inge Feltrinelli in the Old Town Hall ( memento from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), pressemeldung-niedersachsen.de, accessed on January 20, 2011
  12. ^ Inge Schönthal-Feltrinelli ( Memento of April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release, accessed on April 16, 2011
  13. ↑ The beautiful Inge and her Rolleiflex Der Spiegel , 19/2010, May 10, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Feltrinelli, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönthal, Inge (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian photographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2018
Place of death Milan