Tonight the TV series is broadcast on Rai Tre Ottilie Von Faber Castell. The biographical miniseries is about a brave woman at the head of an enormously popular company: her story is not just the story of a private success, but a nineteenth-century model of women’s emancipation. Ottilie von Faber-Castell was a German entrepreneur who lived in the twentieth century, at the helm of Faber-Castell, a famous pencil manufacturer. From a very young age, Ottilie found herself fighting against prejudices, dividing herself between work, family and love. The drama, consisting of two episodes, tells the story of the baroness struggling with the family business during the nineteenth century. To complicate practical matters, however, love takes care of it: Ottillie falls madly in love with Count Alexander von Castell, but the idyll is put into crisis when a second man enters the field, namely Baron Philipp von Brand (adj. Of FD Zaza).
Story vera Ottilie by Faber-Castell
The Faber Castell is one of the best known companies in the world for the production of pencils and more. It all started in 1761 in Bavarian Germany and more precisely in the town of Stein. Here, the master craftsman Kaspar Faber began producing rudimentary pencil models, looking at the expanding market with a far-sighted eye. It was then his son Anton Wilhelm who transformed his father’s shop into a real manufacturing factory. The headquarters of the company are still located right here today. It was to bring the company to success Ottilie von Faber Castell, nicknamed Tilly.
The woman had to manage the huge inheritance of the family and continue the work done by her predecessors. The task of running the company came suddenly for Ottile, who lost his father Wilhelm von Faber very soon: the man died at the age of 42 due to a heart attack. Lothar, Tilly’s grandfather, was tasked with deciding who to entrust the company to after Wilhelm’s death. The choice fell precisely on Ottilie, who began working in the company in 1896. In 1898, following her marriage to the count Alexander zu Castell-Ruedenhausen, the king of Bavaria gave his consent tounion of the two surnames. From that moment the factory took the name of Faber-Castell.
Ottilie von Faber-Castell: who was the first husband Alexander
After the marriage between Ottilie von Faber Castell and Alexander, the factory took on the joint name and changed its logo: the knights became the official brand of the brand. After joining in marriage, the couple embarked on a long honeymoon that touched various states, including Italy, France, the United States and Canada. Count Alexander had a castle built right in front of the factory, so that he could closely follow the company. The two had three daughters, but in 1905 the couple finally gave birth to their long-awaited son, Roland. The couple had already had another son, Wolfgang, born in 1902, but who died just a few months after birth.
When war broke out in 1914, Count Alexander moved to Belgium. The man rarely had the opportunity to visit his family in Stein. Just i long periods of separation they made the couple fall into a crisis that culminated in separation. “During the year I have noticed that our feelings for each other are no longer the same”, he wrote in June 1916 Ottilie von Faber Castell to her husband Alexander. The rich heiress fell in love with another man, the baron Philip von Brand zu Neidstein, and filed for divorce from Alexander. “I want to be happy with him … That I have come to know very well in this year and a half” she wrote in a letter to her husband. After obtaining a divorce, he left the company and the castle to him, passing his shares to his son Roland, and moved into Philipp’s residence.
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