Lorenza Mazzetti

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Lorenza Mazzetti (2014)

Lorenza Mazzetti (born July 26, 1927 near Florence , † January 4, 2020 in Rome ) was an Italian director , writer and painter.

Life

Lorenza Mazzetti's mother died shortly after giving birth. Lorenza and her twin sister Paola grew up with the sister of their father Cesarina (Nina) Mazzetti and her husband Robert Einstein, a cousin of Albert Einstein , and their daughters Luce and Cici. In August 1944, Nina, Luce and Cici Einstein were murdered by a commando of the German SS . Their uncle escaped the murder drive, but committed suicide the following year. From then on, Lorenza and Paola lived again with their biological father until his early accidental death.

Lorenza Mazzetti attended the University of Rome and then went to London during the 1950s to deepen her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art . She became a member of the free cinema movement and made some films that were rarely seen outside of the UK. The remarkable drama Together from 1956 tells the story of two deaf mutes. From 1959 she was back in her home country and worked alongside Cesare Zavattini on some of his projects. As a director she worked mainly for short films; She shot segments for two of the episodic films popular in the 1960s. With her literary work Il cielo cade , in which she dealt with her childhood, she won the Premio Viareggio in 1962 . It was made into a film in 2000.

She later directed the children's theater Puppett Theater in Rome.

Lorenza and her twin sister Paola tried all their life to solve the execution of their aunt and cousins.

Lorenza Mazzetti died on January 4, 2020 at the age of 92.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1961: The Italian Woman and Love (Le italiane e l'amore) (one episode)

Publications

  • 1961: Il cielo cade

documentary

  • Friedemann Fromm : Einstein's nieces - The story of loss and survival . Documentary. 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shelley Boettcher: Lorenza Mazzetti, Wartime Survivor and Seminal Filmmaker, Dies at 92. In: The New York Times , January 16, 2020. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ Julius Müller-Meiningen: The drama of her life . Interview. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 24, 2017, p. 9
  3. ↑ Julius Müller-Meiningen: The Einstein Affair . In: Badische Zeitung , September 9, 2017
  4. ↑ old version at the British Film Institute ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 282
  6. ↑ Julius Müller-Meiningen: The Einstein Affair . In: Badische Zeitung , September 9, 2017
  7. ↑ Stefan Dosch: Einstein's nieces. The tragic story of two sisters . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , 23 August 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mazzetti, Lorenza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director, writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH near Florence
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2020
Place of death Rome