Martha Heimann

Martha Heimann was born in Berlin on January 21, 1874. Her parents were the banker and freight forwarder Benno Heimann, born in Schwerin on March 6, 1836, and his wife Franziska Friederike Heimann, née Meyer, born in Berlin on July 22, 1844. Martha Heimann never really got to know her father Benno Heimann. Benno Heimann voluntarily retired from life on March 27, 1874. In November 1895, Martha married the brother of her cousin Margarete Alexander, married Mauthner - Fritz Alexander, who decided to pursue a career in art and left Berlin to seek his fortune as a painter in Munich. Tragically, Fritz Alexander died of typhoid fever in Florence on November 7, 1895, while still on his honeymoon. On September 25, 1898, Martha married the Italian entrepreneur Enrico Marcovaldi. Their son Gaetano Marcovaldi was born on May 20, 1899. Almost four years later, on March 4, 1903, daughter Annina Franziska Margherita, married Rosenthal, followed. Unfortunately, the marriage to Enrico Marcovaldi did not last long. In 1910, Robert Musil traveled to Rome several times to settle delicate disputes regarding Martha's divorce from Enrico Marcovaldi. On April 15, 1911, Martha, the divorced Marcovaldi, married Robert Musil. After a quarter of a century at Robert Musil's side, the couple fled to Switzerland via Italy in September 1938, after the Anschluss of the Republic of Austria to Germany. After Robert Musil's sudden death in Geneva on April 15, 1942, Martha Musil moved to the USA in July 1946, where her daughter had been living in Philadelphia with her two children and her husband Otto Rosenthal, a medical researcher, since 1936. In the spring of 1947, she decided to return to Rome, where she spent the last two years of her life from 1947 to 1949. Martha Musil died in Rome on August 24, 1949.