1884-11-21 - 1948-01-03
Charlotte Marie Warburg was born 1884-11-20 in Freiburg im Breisgau. Daughter of Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846 - 1931). Sisters Käte (1882 - 1948) and Gertrud (1886 - 1971), brother Otto Heinrich (1883 - 1970).
The family of Emil Warburg moved to Berlin in 1895.
Short (10 months) marriage with Franz Schwarz 1907-06-21; official divorce much later in 1913.
Acquaintance of Walther Nernst and (since 1911) of Heinrich Wölfflin (1864 - 1945).
Together, Walther Nernst and Lotte Warburg wrote a romantic fairy-tale related to the just emerging theory of relativity which eventually led to eternal love between a young theoretical physicist and a beautiful young queen: Zwischen Raum und Zeit (1912).
Lotte Warburg married Gottfried Meyer-Viol (1878 - 1944) in Berlin-Charlottenburg 1919-12-15.
Her sister Gertrud married Hans von Wartenberg.
Using her pseudonym Züs Colonna, Lotte Warburg wrote a satirical obituary for Walther Nernst.
She died 1948-01-03 in Bayreuth at age 63.
Cordula Koepcke. Lotte Warburg. "Unglaublich! Daß ich gelebt habe!" Eine Biographie. Iudicium Verlag, München, 2000.
Heidy Margrit Müller (editor). "Etwas für die Phantasie". Heinrich Wölfflins Briefwechsel mit "Züs Colonna". Mit Erinnerungen und Erzählprosa von Lotte Warburg. Iudicium Verlag, München, 1997, 251 pp.
Wulf Rüskamp (editor). "Eine vollkommene Närrin durch meine ewigen Gefühle". Aus den Tagebüchern der Lotte Warburg 1925 bis 1947. Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth, 1989, 456 pp.
Revised 2003-06-04