Inge Feltrinelli
Inge Feltrinelli, née Schönthal (born November 24, 1930 in Essen) is a German-born Italian photographer and director with her son Carlo (b. 1962) of the Italian publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore.
Biography
Inge Schönthal was born to Jewish immigrants from Spain.
She began her career as photographer in Hamburg. In 1952 during a long stay in New York City she was able to photograph Greta Garbo, Elia Kazan, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Winston Churchill. She also made friends with Erwin Blumenfeld. Among her most celebrated photos are those of writers Ernest Hemingway, Edoardo Sanguineti, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Nadine Gordimer and artists Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.[1]
In 1958 she met Italian left-wing publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli whom she later married in Mexico and followed to Milan (he had two previous marriages). She took charge of international relations for the publishing house. She eventually became the de facto head of the publishing house as Feltrinelli a few years later embraced the “struggle for the revolution against imperialism”.[2][3]
In 1969 she was named vice-president in a company restructure decided by Feltrinelli (who remained President in name only) in anticipation of his transition to clandestine activities.[2]
In 1972, when Feltrinelli died, during an attempted terrorist attack on the Milan electricity network,[4] she became president of the company, which she led together with her son Carlo.[2]
Other significant details – such as the scope of her influence on the existential choices by Feltrinelli and her contacts with Soviet entities – are described and documented in the “Interview with Inge Schoental” published on November 11, 2011 by the Russian-American weekly Kontinent USA.[5]
Honours
Italy: Cavaliere di Gran Croce, 1999
France: Médaille Charlemagne pour les Médias Européens, 2011
Bibliography
- Feltrinelli, Inge. Mit Fotos die Welt erobern [Conquer the World with Photos] (1st ed.). Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 9783869305295.
- Carlo Feltrinelli (1999). Senior Service. Milan: Feltrinelli. ISBN 9781862075399.
- Feltrinelli, Carlo tr. Alastair McEwen (2002). Senior Service. London: Granta.
- Feltrinelli, Carlo (2002). Feltrinelli: A Story of Riches, Revolution, and Violent Death. Harcourt. The American edition of Senior Service.
- Knigge, Jobst C.. Feltrinelli – Sein Weg in den Terrorismus, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin 2010
- Scarzella, Luca (2000). Inge Photoreporter. Milan: Feltrinelli.
- Scarzella, Luca (2010). Film: Incontro con Inge Feltrinelli. Feltrinelli.
- Scarzella, Luca & Fiori, Simonetta (2010), “Inge film” DVD and book, Feltrinelli, Milano.
- "Website of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore". Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- Michaelsen, Sven (4 March 2013). "Seize the Right Moment". 032c. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
References
- ↑ Feltrinelli, Inge (2012). Fotografien (1., Aufl. ed.). Göttingen, Niedersachsen: Steidl. ISBN 9783869305295.
- 1 2 3 Carlo Feltrinelli (2002). Feltrinelli: A Story of Riches, Revolution, and Violent Death. Harcourt.
- ↑ Michaelsen, Sven (4 March 2013). "Seize the Right Moment". 032c. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ Indro Montanelli and Mario Cervi (1991). L'Italia degli anni di piombo. Rizzoli.
- ↑ "Interview with Inge Schoenthal". Kontinent–USA. 11 November 2012.