Venice / Summer 1932 | Annemarie Schwarzenbach / Erika Mann / Klaus Mann / Ricki Hallgarten

Erika Mann, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Klaus Mann,Venice, 1932             Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Klaus Mann, Erika Mann,Venice, 1932

“Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust 

your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.”

Klaus Mann, The Turning Point

Klaus Mann, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Erika Mann and Ricki Hallgarten, 1932              Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Erika Mann, Venice, 1932

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler.

Klaus Mann (1906-49) German writer, the son of German writer Thomas Mann.
Erika  Mann (1905-69) German actress, writer and Cabaret artist, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Pringsheim.

Ricki Hallgarten (1905-32)  German painter, son of Robert and Constance Hallgarten, friend of Klaus and Erika Mann in Munich.

Also:

Summer 1937: Adrienne Fidelin / Man Ray / Lee Miller / Nusch and Paul Éluard