Elizabeth Subercaseaux Elizabeth Subercaseaux Elizabeth Subercaseaux Sommerhoff (born 1945) is a Chilean journalist and writer. Elizabeth Subercaseaux grew up near Cauqenes, Chile at her grandparents' home called Santa Clara. Subercaseaux's father died in 1956, when he was 42 years old and she was 11. The five children of the marriage – Bernardo and Juan, older than Elizabeth, and Martin and Ximena, younger – were brought up by their mother, the sculptor, painter, and photographer Gerda Sommerhoff, who was born in Germany and grew up in Holland. She is the great-great-granddaughter of the German composer Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. After finishing high
Michael Wieck Michael Wieck Michael Wieck (born 19 July 1928) is a German violinist and author. Wieck's memoir, "Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs" ("Witness to the fall of Königsberg"), was published in 1989. In it he relates his and his partly Jewish family's sufferings under the Nazis and, after the German defeat, under the Soviets. This moving story was translated into English in 2003 under the title "A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "Certified Jew,"", and in 2004 into Russian as "Закат Кёнигсберга" ("Sunset of Königsberg"). A revised Russian edition was published in 2015. Wieck was born in Königsberg, the