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The BBC made an episode for the very popular documentary in England: “Who do you think you are?” And the researcher wanted about the historical context of the origin of Faithfll. In December 2012, the two met for an interview in Vienna.

“When I was able to meet Marianne Faithfull for the interview, the focus was on one aspect of her biography, which was much less public and even now in the many death reports, hardly: she grew like the daughter of an Austrian , was bride and a British intelligence officer stationed in Vienna, “says Stelzl -Marx to Krone.at. Was pretty dramatic, “explains the scientist.

Mother fell victim to rape
Her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, was the great fake of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the author of Venus in Fur, where the second part of the term “Sado-Maso” goes back. When the Second World War broke out, she was moved from Berlin to Vienna, where she had worked as a ballerina for Max Reinhardt Company. After the liberation of the Red Army in April 1945, she was the victim of rape. When Vienna was finally occupied by all four allies in the summer, she met British intelligence officer Robert Glynn Faithful.

“She married the ‘spy’ when she was already pregnant and eventually emigrated to Great Britain as a ‘occupancy bride’, not least as protection against further attacks,” explains Stelzl-Marx. On December 29, 1946, her only daughter, Marianne Faithfull, was born. “At the edge of the interview, she told me how she as a little girl bothered her that her mother had an accent in English and was different from the mothers of her school friends. There was often a typical Austrian Gugelhupf on Sunday, “the historian from the sewing cabinet talks.

An adventurous life
Most of the most important data of her “adventurous life”, as she called it herself, was signed by heights and depths, are well known: Faithfull started her musical career in the tender age of 17 when she was Andrew Loog in 1964 Oldham Was discovered. Her first great success “As Tears Go Bye”, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, breathed in the Zeitgeist and made her world -famous at night. With hits like “Come and stay with me” and “this little bird”, she settled as an icon of the “swinging sixties” in London.

“Naked Girl at Stones Party”
But soon her relationship with Mick Jagger, who would take from 1966 to 1970, dominated, and the excessive lifestyle dominated the report. Above all, the notorious raid into the house of Keith Richards in February 1967 was a turning point: “Naked Girl at Stones party” was the head of the “Evening Standard”. Marianne Faithfull then felt like a “fallen angel”. In the 1970s she slid in drug addiction, lived partly on the street and withdrew from the audience.

Despite these challenges, she achieved an impressive comeback in 1979 with the album “Broken English”, with a hoarse, deeper voice, which would now become her trademark. In 1987 “Strange Weather” followed with the hit “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”. At that time she had finally overcome her drug addiction. In addition to her music career, she was also successful as an actress and played in films such as “The Girl On The Motorcycle” (1968) and “Irina Palm” (2007).

Marianne Faithfull died in London on January 30, 2025 at the age of 78. Not only their songs, but also the spoken word album “She Walks in Beauty” will be remembered with beautifully executed poems by Lord Byron. Her life was adventurous from the start. And: “It has quite great,” she said. A farewell to Marianne Faithfull!