Woman of the week:

Gabriele von Glasow

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Gabriele von Glasow

born 12 May 1928 in Partheinen, East Prussia
died 24 July 2004 in Hannover

German painter, singer and professor of voice
80. birthday on 12 May 2008


Gabriele von Glasow was the second of five daughters and two sons of the East Prussian landowner Ernst von Glasow and his wife Charlotte, née von Berg, and grew up on the estate Partheinen near the Frisches Haff. Like her siblings she attended the village school for two years and was then taught by a private tutor. From the age of ten she went to a girls’ high school in Königsberg and lived in a boarding house during the week. Even as a child Gabriele was constantly occupied with drawing—probably inherited from her artistically gifted father, whose gigantic fresco (some …

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