Ruth Wenger
Claudia Ruth Wenger (born 31 October 1897, Basel, Switzerland, and died 30 May 1994 in Weimar, Germany) was a Swiss concert soprano and painter. She used either forename when signing a painting.
Lifetime[edit]
Claudia Ruth Wenger was born to Swiss painter and children's author Lisa Ruutz (1858-1941) and her husband Théo Wenger (1868-1928), a Swiss industrialist who owned a silverware company. Ruth's elder sister, Eva Wenger (1891-1959), would be mother of three children, one of whom was the painter Meret Oppenheim.
In summer 1919, Wenger met the Swiss writer Hermann Hesse in Carona while on holiday with her parents. The two became enamoured with each other, but had doubts about marriage on account of their differing personalities and interests.[1]She saw each other briefly and often, either in Carona or in Basel, where Wenger was studying singing, flute and piano.[2] She married Hesse on 11 January 1924 after his separation from his first wife, Maria Bernoulli (1868-1963), one of Switzerland's earliest photographers. For most of their marriage, they lived hundreds of kilometres away from one another. Ruth was mainly preoccupied by her numerous pets, to which Hesse was indifferent.[2] The marriage survived for three more years, until Ruth began a short-lived affair with the painter Karl Hofer in January 1927 and filed for divorce. The separation took effect on 24 April 1927 - Hesse submitted to it unwillingly and made certain stipulations.[3]
She later married the German actor Erich Haußmann and in 1935 became mother of Ezard Haußmann. After his parents had been arrested during the Second World War (1939-45) in France, Ezard was enrolled in a Swiss boarding school with the support of Hesse.[4] Taking advantage of a personal relationship with the East German Culture Minister Johannes Becher, the family moved to East Germany in 1956.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Minkus, Elke (2006). "»Liebes Herz!« Hermann Hesses Briefwechsel mit seiner zweiten Frau Ruth" (PDF). Retrieved 2 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hermann Hesses zweite Ehefrau Ruth Wenger". Retrieved 2 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kleßmann, Eckart. "»Liebes Herz!« Hermann Hesses Briefwechsel mit seiner zweiten Frau Ruth" (PDF). Retrieved 2 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Begegnung mit Hermann Hesse". Retrieved 2 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Piethe, Marcel. "Ich konnte nicht anders". Retrieved 2 May 2021. Unknown parameter
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