Baden-Baden, December 27, 2023, report: editorial team It is also the history of Baden-Baden’s Weststadt that plays a role in Christian Frietsch’s new book. Not only Elisabeth, but also Tony Marshall, Joachim Ernst Behrendt, General Massu and the Grenke family were at home there at the time.
In this book, Christian Frietsch describes the life of his mother Elisabeth Frietsch-Eyer. In November 2022, seven years after her death, her works were also shown in Moscow and Yalta.
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Reading sample part 2 “Elisabeth, the painter – A Baden-Baden family story”
Her new house now stands in the garden where she curled up as a little girl. There were still a few long-time residents living in this area. Right next to her new house is the master typesetter and trade school teacher Peter Letulé. A well-known eccentric around town, he had trained entire generations of typesetters and later, as a pensioner, spent his days carrying dozens of typesetting boxes from one floor of his house to the other, just as he was used to doing during his working life. More than 60 years after the founding of Baden-Württemberg, he used his old printing machine to produce small stickers with the inscription “Freedom for Baden” and distributed them on lanterns and other suitable eye-catchers in the city center, which he could reach in just a few minutes from the hard echelons could. Only the way back from his separatist missions was difficult.
Elisabeth spent her childhood here in this area. Below the Hardstaffeln is Stephanienstrasse, where the common people lived. Leading off from this is the craftsmen’s quarter with Seilerstrasse, Blechnergasse and other streets whose names reminded us that Baden-Baden’s city center was exactly what modern city planners and sociologists want a city to be today. A mixed population that does not even allow ghettos of rich and poor. Above Stephanienstrasse, the Hardstaffeln flow into Bergengruenstrasse, named after the writer Werner Bergengruen, who lived in the area and achieved some fame with his novels and essays in the 1960s. In earlier times, when Elisabeth roamed the area with her doll’s pram, Bergengruenstrasse was still called Gartenstrasse. This street leads into Hardäckerstraße, which eventually meets Markgrafenplatz. Nowadays, wealthy people who have traveled here now live in their new flat-roof houses, for which many beautiful old villas had to be replaced.
It was a cloudy February day when I visited Elisabeth in her new house for the first time. As I ran down the hard relays from top to bottom to about the middle of the relays, where Elisabeth’s house now stands, directly opposite her parents’ house, I remembered that at some point, when I was maybe eight years old, I was counting the relays on the way to visit Grandma Eyer on Sundays. There are still 56. As soon as I entered the house, the question she always asked came: “Do you know what my next picture is called?” “No mom, tell me.” “Elizabeth Alekseevna,” she said, without adding anything else. The picture “Tsar Alexander I and Tsarina Elisabeth of Russia” was later supposed to decorate the foyer of the Russian embassy Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1999, along with other pictures of Elisabeth, but she did not want to give the pictures away.
Elisabeth, the painter – A Baden-Baden family history
Author: Christian Frietsch
Verlag: goodnews4.de
Scope: 119 pages
Price: 8.90 euros
Available in the Straß bookstore, Baden-Baden, and at Amazon
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