Swiss Review 2/2021

Swiss Review / April 2021 / No.2 13 1) On her American travels (1936), Schwarzenbach portrayed a society still affected by the 1929 eco- nomic crisis. 2) Schwarzenbach took photos of European settlers who managed plantations in Belgian Congo (1941–42). 3) The barren wilderness of Iran (1935). Schwarzen- bach’s writings were almost as vivid as her photos, often betraying her emotional and physical state. 4) Marriage of convenience – Schwarzenbach, a lesbian, married the homosexual French diplomat Claude Clarac in Tehran in 1935. 5) Schwarzenbach travelled – in her Ford – to Afghanistan via Istanbul and Tehran with Genevan travel writer Ella Maillart in 1939. 6) On a ship between two places: the past and the future. Third-class passengers on the crossing to America (1936–38). 7) Annemarie Schwarzenbach, born in 1908 in Zurich, died on 15 November 1942 as a result of a bicycle accident in Engadine. © Esther Gambaro, estate of Marie-Luise Bodmer-Preiswerk 3 5 7 6 4