Suze Rotolo
Susan Elizabeth " Suze " Rotolo ( born November 20, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 25, 2011 in Manhattan) was an American artist, political activist and author. She was romantically involved from 1961 to 1964 with Bob Dylan ( the time of his breakthrough ) and in those days apparently had a strong influence on his songs. She became famous by the cover photo to Dylan's second studio album The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan, which shows the two arm in arm while walking on a winter road in New York.
Life
Rotolo, who grew up in Queens, was Italian- American descent. Her parents, Joachim Rotolo and Mary Pezzati Rotolo, were members of the Communist Party. In 1961 she graduated from Bryant High School in Queens.
She was active politically and was also an activist for the civil rights organization CORE and the anti -nuclear group SANE ( Peace Action ). With her sister Carla, she lived in the emerging New York artist 's Greenwich Village, where Dylan saw them the first time. In July 1961, the two met at a folk concert at Riverside Church. From the spring of 1962 they lived together, but Dylan's growing fame was becoming a burden. In June 1962 Rotolo left New York for a semester abroad in art at the University of Perugia in Italy. Dylan processed the preliminary separation in the songs Do not Think Twice, It's Alright, Tomorrow Is a Long Time, One Too Many Mornings and Boots of Spanish Leather.
Rotolos political views and their knowledge of art and literature influenced Dylan's songwriting at that time very much. Through them he became interested in the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, to interest the theater of Bertolt Brecht and painting. In her autobiography, Rotolo reported that she had become pregnant by Dylan in 1963, but had an abortion are invalid. In August 1963, she left the family home and moved back to her sister. 1964 broke the relationship with Dylan finally, who has described the separation in the song Ballad in Plain D.
Suze Rotolo mid 1964 traveled to Cuba and found to have violated the U.S. embargo. In 1967 she married the Italian Enzo Bartoccioli, who worked as an editor for the UN. The marriage comes from a son. The couple lived there until the early 1970s in Italy. After Rotolo worked as an illustrator and painter. It dealt with object art and design of artists' books. They remained politically active and engaged, for example, in the satirical street theater group Billionaires for Bush. She took 2004 to the protest rally against the Republican convention in Manhattan part. Conversations she drew about her relationship with Dylan from most, sometimes she was interviewed for a documentary about Dylan. So it appears in Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home - Bob Dylan, Dylan's rise illuminates 1961-1966. Published in 2008, Rotolo her autobiographical book, A Freewheelin 'Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties ( As the times change began: memories of Greenwich Village in the sixties, German edition 2010), which became a bestseller in the United States.
Suze Rotolo died on February 25, 2011 in Manhattan, according to her husband to complications from lung cancer.