Maria Meinen

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Maria Meinen (born September 26, 1905 in Weissenburg im Simmental ; † February 24, 1992 in Erlenbach im Simmental ), actually Frieda Leitner-Meinen , was a Swiss writer and dancer .

Maria Meinen lost her father very early and grew up as an only child with her mother in Weissenburg in the Simmental . She attended primary school in Därstetten from 1912 to 1917 and secondary school in Erlenbach im Simmental from 1917 to 1921. She graduated from Minerva in Zurich in 1924 and studied at the University of Zurich , the University of Basel , and the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of London from 1925 to 1930.

Maria Meinen was married to the art historian Hans Graber from 1929 to 1937 . She took dance lessons, including in Paris, where she was a member of the circle of friends of the dancers Tatjana Barbakoff and Valeria Ellanskaia and the painter Gert Heinrich Wollheim. Maria Meinen was the lover of the poet Leonhard Frank , whom she supported financially on his escape to the USA. Frank processed the love affair in the play “Maria” and in the novel “Mathilde” and dedicated both books to Maria Meinen. Later he tried to bring her to America and negotiated a contract with Warner Brothers for her as a screenwriter in Hollywood , which she did not, however, sign. Shortly before the start of the war, Maria Meinen got a six-month engagement as a solo dancer (expressive dancer) in Paris at " Le Bœuf sur le Toit (cabaret) " under the patronage of the Swiss diplomat Walter Stucki , but the obligation was prematurely resolved when the war broke out Switzerland declined. (In Switzerland, she first appeared on April 10, 1943 in the Küchlintheater in Basel with dances such as Pavane, Mädchen auf der Wiese, Narcissus, Tango, Waltz, Spring, Nocturno, Gavotte joyeuse, Waltz and March. She can also be found in During this time in minor supporting roles at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and about her homeland the Simmental, a valley near Lake Thun, she wrote two books. She lived in Basel, Zurich and Weissenburg. Her friends included the journalist and writer Siegfried Streicher and the journalist and publisher Max Ras . Maria Meinen married Dr. Robert Leitner. After his death in 1965, she definitely returned to Weissenburg. In 1987 she sold her house in Weissenburg and moved to the Lindenmatt retirement home in Erlenbach in the Simmental .

Works

  • Maria Meinen tells, Observer Zurich, 1948
  • Mys Täälti, Simetaler Gschichtleni u Gstaalti, Francke, Bern, 1979
  • In the valley of the seven wells, Francke, Bern, 1984

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hans Graber (1886–1956) worked as an art critic for the Basler Zeitung in the 1920s and at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 1932–1937. In the 1940s he withdrew from newspaper work and turned to French art. Numerous publications on Pisano, Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin. Editor of Van Gogh's correspondence with his brother.
  2. ^ Leonhard Frank, Maria, Querido, Amsterdam, 1939.
  3. ^ Leonhard Frank, Mathilde, Querido, Amsterdam, 1948.
personal data
SURNAME Mine, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leitner-Meinen, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenburg in the Simmental
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1992
Place of death Erlenbach in the Simmental