Annemarie Seidel

Annemarie Seidel, called Mirl, was a younger sister of the writer Ina Seidel (1885–1974). When she was barely a year old, her family left Braunschweig, where Annemarie Seidel had been born. Her father, Hermann Seidel, took his own life in November 1895. The cause was presumably an impending disciplinary proceeding against the physician for incorrect treatment. The family first moved to Marburg and later to Munich,^[1] where Annemarie Seidel made a career as an actress at the beginning of the Weimar Republic. During this time, she met Carl Zuckmayer, with whom she lived together in 1921/22. After falling dangerously ill, she had to leave Zuckmayer's damp basement apartment in Matthäikirchstraße 4 - the writer Julius Elias lived in the same house. Her "savior" in this situation was the Dutch millionaire and musicologist Anthony van Hoboken. He became Annemarie Seidel's first husband. This marriage lasted from 1922 to 1932. In 1935 she married Peter Suhrkamp. Her marriage to Peter Suhrkamp suffered from Annemarie Seidel's alcoholism in later years. The divorce had already been decided, but Suhrkamp died on March 31, 1959, two days before the court hearing.^[2] Annemarie Seidel died only a few months later.

Annemarie Seidel worked as an editor for Suhrkamps Verlag. She also translated the novel The Grass Harp by Truman Capote into German together with Friedrich Podszus. Friedrich Podszus was also the heir to her last apartment in Munich's Ohmstraße.