Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille
Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (* 1883 in Thun , † 1959 in Konstanz ) was a Swiss horse athlete and amateur - photographer .
Life
Renée Schwarzenbach was the daughter of General Ulrich Wille and Clara Countess von Bismarck, so she was a granddaughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck and also of the writer Eliza Wille . In 1904 she married Alfred Schwarzenbach , the important silk industrialist. Since 1912 she lived in Horgen on Lake Zurich on the historic Bocken estate . As a show jumper , she took part in many competitions in Switzerland and Germany, including the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .
The interest in photography that she discovered at the age of 14 accompanied her all her life. She recorded family life on the estate in a unique photographic diary that spanned several decades. Among other things, she documented the life of her daughter, the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach , who died young . The two had a very conflicted relationship, u. a. because the mother admired the Nazis and the daughter was convinced anti-fascist.
The more than 10,000 photographs and many film sequences capture her diverse other interests, life in society, sport, music and her controversial political worldview.
plant
- Pictures with legends. Photo tape. Edited by Alexis Schwarzenbach . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85881-169-6 .
literature
- Alexis Schwarzenbach: The born - Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille and her family . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85881-161-0 .
- Niklaus Meienberg : The world as will & madness . Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1987. ISBN 978-3857911286
- Anabela Mendes: Oh how terrific that she has such a tough mother! In: Gonçalo Vilas-Boas, Teresa Martins de Oliveira: Macht in der Deutschschweizer Literatur , Frank & Timme, Berlin, 2010, pp. 215–230. ISBN 978-3-86596-411-3
Web links
- Works by and about Renée Schwarzenbach in the catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwarzenbach-Wille, Renée |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tuna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1959 |
| Place of death | Constancy |