Nena von Schlebrügge
Birgitte Caroline "Nena" von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941 in Mexico City ) is a former model of the 1950s and 1960s. After leading positions at the New York Open Center and the Tibet House in New York , she has been working as Managing Director at Menla Mountain Retreat, a spiritual center in the Catskill Mountains, since 2001 .
origin
Nena by Schlebrügge is the daughter of a Swedish mother, Birgit Holmquist (1911-1973), and a German father, Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge (1886-1954), a monarchist and cavalry officer in the First World War . In the 1920s and 1930s he was a businessman in Berlin . During World War II he was by the Nazis imprisoned because he refused to re-enter military service, and protected Jewish friends. Birgit Holmquist married him in prison and made it possible for him to be released. The couple fled to Mexico , where Nena and her brother Björn were born.
In the 1930s, Nena von Schlebrügge's mother Birgit Holmquist was Axel Ebbe's model for Famntaget (“The Embrace”), the sculpture of a naked woman standing in the harbor in the Swedish city of Smygehuk . On her father's side, Nena von Schlebrügge has an older half-sister, the grandmother of the Swedish football player Max von Schlebrügge .
Career
Model
In 1955, at the age of 14, Nena von Schlebrügge was discovered by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson while he was in Stockholm . In 1957, Nena moved to London to work as a model. She was invited to New York by Eileen Ford to work for Ford Models , then Ford Modeling Agency.
In a heavy snowstorm, she arrived in New York with the Queen Mary in mid-March 1958 , she was just 17 years old. She worked as a top model, including for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar .
actress
In 1967 Nena von Schlebrügge had a role in the film Ciao! Manhattan with Edie Sedgwick . During the four years of making the film there were numerous changes, including the scenes with Nena von Schlebrügge. However, these scenes can be seen in the DVD version of the film.
Others
From 1987 to 1989 Nena von Schlebrügge was Program Director at the spiritual New York Open Center, and from 1991 to 2002 Managing Director of Tibet House US in New York, which was founded in 1987 on behalf of the Dalai Lama . With Philip Glass , she initiated the annual benefit concert in Carnegie Hall and the annual benefit auction at Christie's . Since 2001 Nena von Schlebrügge has been Managing Director of the Menla Mountain Retreat in the Catskill Mountains .
Personal
In 1964 Nena von Schlebrügge married Timothy Leary . DA Pennebaker documented this event in his short film You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You . The marriage ended in divorce after just a year. In 1967 she married Robert Thurman . In the same year their first child together, Ganden Thurman, was born.
The Thurmans lived in Massachusetts from 1973 to 1988 . During this time, Nena completed a master's degree in education and began a doctorate in psychological counseling . In 1970, their second child, the US actress, Uma Thurman , was born. Two more sons followed, Dechen (* 1973) and Mipam (* 1978).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fifties Fashionista: Nena von Schlebrügge! (English)
- ↑ IMDb, see web links
- ↑ You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, 1964 . Pennebaker Hegedus Films (English)
- ↑ Years of birth of the children on Familypedia (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlebrügge, Nena from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brigitte Caroline von Schlebrügge (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist, former model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |