Ruth Wenger

Short Biography

Claudia Ruth Wenger (born October 31, 1897 in Basel, † 30 May 1994, Weimar) was a Swiss concert singer (soprano) and painter who called himself as an artist Claudia.lifeRuth Wenger was the second daughter of Swiss painter and children's book author Lisa Wenger (1858-1941) and the factory owner Theo Wenger (1868-1928), owner of the "Swiss cutlery factory" Wenger. One of the three daughters of her older sister Eva (1891-1959) was the artist Meret Oppenheim.1919 met Ruth Wenger's 20 years her senior writer Hermann Hesse know in Ticino, while they spent the summer in Carona with their parents. Both loved each other very much, but had doubts as to whether this love was to be sealed by a marriag, because too different were the interests and character peculiarities of the two. They looked at often, but briefly, either in Carona or in Basel, where Ruth Wenger vocals, flute and piano studied. She married Hesse on 11 January 1924 after his divorce from his first wife, Maria, but the couple lived mostly several hundreds of kilometers apart. Ruth lived mainly for their dogs, cats, parrots and other pets, what Hermann Hesse little interest. The marriage was maintained for three years, until after a short-term love affair with the painter Karl Hofer Ruth filed for divorce in January 1927 on 24 April 1927 was pronounced in Basel. Hesse agreed to the divorce unwilling and not unconditionally.Later she married Erich Haussmann and was mother of actor Ezard Haussmann. Ezard was educated in a Swiss convent boarding school with the support of Hermann Hesse after his parents had been arrested during the Second World War in France. Through personal relationships of Ruth Haußmann GDR Minister of Culture Johannes R. Becher, the family in 1955 moved to the DDR order.