Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart ( born February 20, 1903 in Geneva, † 27 March 1997 Chandolin, Switzerland ) was a Swiss athlete, travel writer and photographer.
Life
As the daughter of Paul Maillart, a wealthy Geneva fur traders, and Dagmar Klim, her mother of Danish descent, she took over in early youth whose enthusiasm for the sport, in particular for sailing and skiing. In 1922, she founded the first field hockey club for women in western Switzerland and sailed along with her childhood friend Hermine de Saussure to Corsica. Other boat trips through the Mediterranean followed. In 1924, she represented Switzerland at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in the single-handed sailing. As a skier, she was a member of the Swiss national team and was coach of the Swiss women's field hockey team.
In 1930 to 1932, she has traveled to Moscow, the Caucasus and the Soviet republics of Central Asia. In addition, she wrote newspaper articles and their first books. In 1934, she traveled on behalf of the Paris newspaper Le Petit Parisien in Manchuria and took then to the Times reporter Peter Fleming a journey through the most remote areas of China with the goal of Kashmir. After another trip through India, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey ( 1937), followed in 1939, the trip from Geneva to Kabul with Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the Ford By the outbreak of the Second World War, this company ended prematurely in Afghanistan. The war years were spent Ella Maillart in South India with spiritual retreats under the guidance of various Hindu masters.
Upon her return to Europe in 1945 settled Ella Maillart in Geneva and Chandolin, a village in the Valais Alps. Again and again she interrupted her schriftstellererische work to return to India and as a tour guide to accompany small groups of tourists in Asian countries.
Ella Maillart's written heritage is entrusted by the Bibliothèque de Genève, her photographic works from the Musée de l' Elysée in Lausanne. Her documentaries are in the collection of the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne. In Chandolin Ella Maillart dedicated a permanent exhibition.
Works
- In daring journey - From Moscow to the Caucasus, 2006 (Except under the title Course - A young Swiss woman in the revolutionary Soviet Union, 1989)
- Turkestan Solo ( first edition 1938), also Turkestan Solo - An adventurous journey into the unknown, 1990.
- Forbidden Journey - From Peking to Kashmir ( first edition 1938, new editions 1988, 1996, 2003)
- On an adventurous journey through Iran and Afghanistan ( first edition 1948), also titled Volatile Idyll (1988, 1995) and The bitter way - with Annemarie Schwarzenbach go to Afghanistan, 2001.
- Life without rest - A woman travels through the world, 1952.
- Ti - Puss - Three years in South India with a cat as a companion ( first edition 1954), and Ti - Puss - With a cat in India (1998) and Beloved Seidenpfote - With a cat alone through India, 2002.
In English or French:
- The Land of the Sherpas, 1955 ( photos and texts about their first encounter with Nepal)
- La vie immédiate, 1991 ( photo book with texts by Nicolas Bouvier ), ISBN 2-8265-1092-4, ISBN 2-228-88407-3.
- Ella Maillart au Nepal, 1999 ( photo book ), ISBN 2-7427-2273-4.
- Cette réalité que j'ai pourchassée, 2003 ( letters to their parents from the years 1925 to 1941 ), ISBN 2-88182-469-2.
- Ella Maillart sur les routes de l' Orient, 2003 ( photo book ), ISBN 2-7427-4416-9.
- Chandolin d' Anniviers, 2007 ( Ella Maillart photos and texts about the Valais mountain village), ISBN 2-88100 -024- X.
- Envoyée Spéciale en Mandchourie, 2009 ( reports on Manchuria in 1934 ), ISBN 978-2-88182-651-1.
Film and Video
- The Journey to Kafiristan (2001), book & Directed by Fosco Dubini, Donatello Dubini - Template: The bitter way - with Annemarie Schwarzenbach go to Afghanistan.