1. Elisabeth Jungmann, Lady Beerbohm was an interpreter and the secretary, literary executor and second wife of the writer, caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm.
12 Facts About Elisabeth Jungmann
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Elisabeth Jungmann served as a nurse for the German Army during World War I Jungmann was the personal secretary and English interpreter for Gerhart Hauptmann from 1922 to 1933, and then for Rudolf G Binding.
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Elisabeth Jungmann had been a friend of the Beerbohms since 1927 when she had translated at a meeting between Beerbohm and Hauptmann, who wintered in Rapallo in Italy.
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Elisabeth Jungmann became a regular visitor to their home, the Villino Chiaro in Rapallo.
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Elisabeth Jungmann went on to work for the Political Intelligence Department, a section of the British Home Office.
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When Elisabeth Jungmann's mother died in 1942 while being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Beerbohm wrote a letter of condolence to her.
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Elisabeth Jungmann immediately travelled out to his villa in Rapallo where she took care of the funeral arrangements.
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Elisabeth Jungmann acted as hostess to Beerbohm's many visitors, including Ezra Pound, who lived nearby, and Somerset Maugham, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Truman Capote among others.
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Elisabeth Jungmann once told Beerbohm how she would have liked to have met Isaac Newton, famous for his law of gravity.
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Elisabeth Jungmann became Lady Beerbohm when Beerbohm married her privately on his death bed on 20 April 1956 to ensure that under Italian law she would inherit all his possessions.
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On Beerbohm's death in May 1956 Elisabeth Jungmann became his literary executor.
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Elisabeth Jungmann was the subject of a biography by Corry Nethery.