Mina Tobler

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Mina Tobler
Tomb Tobler, sowing angel by Hermann Haller

Mina Tobler (born June 24, 1880 in Zurich ; † January 5, 1967 in Heidelberg ) was a Swiss pianist and piano teacher .

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Mina Tobler was the fourth and youngest child of the linguist Johann Ludwig Tobler and his wife Henriette nee Hattemer and the granddaughter of the linguist Heinrich Hattemer . From 1901 to 1905 Mina received training as a pianist and accompanist at the piano at the Conservatories in Leipzig , Zurich and Brussels as well as with Conrad Ansorge in Berlin.

After her brother Ludwig Tobler (1877-1915) became an assistant doctor at the University Children's Clinic in Heidelberg, she moved to the Neckar and stayed in Heidelberg, even after Ludwig Tobler was appointed professor of paediatrics and director of the Kgl. University Children's Hospital went to Wroclaw.

At the age of 25, she started her own business as a piano teacher in Heidelberg. The pianist Rudolf Müller-Chappuis was one of her private students.

The philosopher Emil Lask (1875–1915) introduced the pianist and piano teacher to Max and Marianne Weber in 1909. Due to her sympathetic and engaging nature, Mina Tobler soon belonged to the Webers' closest circle of friends. A love affair between Mina Tobler and Max Weber existed from 1912 to 1919, the friendship with Marianne Weber († 1954) and Else Jaffé-von Richthofen († 1973) outlasted Max Weber's death in June 1920.

Mina Tobler, together with her brother Ludwig Tobler and his wife Bertha, nee Scholl, found her final resting place at the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg . The grave is adorned with a relief by the Swiss sculptor Hermann Haller, "Saender angel".

Works

  • Mina Tobler: New School of Piano Playing. Süddeutscher Musikverlag Willy Müller, ISMN 979-0-2021-0853-6.

literature

  • M. Rainer Lepsius : Mina Tobler, the friend of Max Weber. In: Bärbel Meurer (Ed.): Marianne Weber. Contributions to work and person. Tübingen 2004 (reprinted in: M. Rainer Lepsius: Max Weber und seine Kreise , Tübingen 2016, pp. 210–231).
  • Joachim Radkau : Max Weber. The passion of thinking. Munich 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Mina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1967
Place of death Heidelberg