becoming Frieda

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 33:

We saw Frieda as a young child here, before that piano came into her life. Now to carry on the story, here are some pictures from her adolescence. She attended the Städtisches Lyzeum Minden 1914-1917 (ie until age 14), and then the conservatoire in nearby Bückeburg (founded just in time in 1913 as Fürstliche Musik Hochschule, in the last blaze of glory of one of the many micro-states that ceased to exist in 1918).

First another cutout from what may have been a school photo:

and another even smaller cutout, literally thumbnail size. With several attempts at scanning, this was the best I could get out of it:

Then Frieda with a younger friend who I think might be her cousin Sophie Brunschier (Sophie was five years younger than Frieda, so I guess this fits):

... and here is the young lady she became:

Sadly we have no adolescence pics with the piano which she had from age 10 or so.

Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

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Season 2 so far:

1. could be a cousin
2. two weddings in Silesia
3. off to Canada
4. off to Australia
5. a very romantic poet
6. fireman August
7. 50 hundredweight of coffee
8. mysterious Minden people
9. horses for Hedwig
10. guessing the great-grandmothers
11. cousin Charlotte
12. three sisters
13. travelling saleswoman
14. family portrait
15. dancing chemist
16. games time
17. desperately searching Wilhelm
18. the third Hedwig
19. patchwork portraits
20. missing brothers
21. the oberlehrer's family
22. a double wedding
23. mystery solved
24. young Frieda
25. old aunts and young children
26. a semi-mysterious aunt
27. a gathering at Gellrichs
28. farm work at Bad Landeck
29. meet the Weitze family
30. a post-war wedding
31. the joy of chemistry
32. the joy of botany
33. becoming Frieda

I started a twitter thread for season 2 here. However, as the bird site seems to be turning into an evil empire, I have now switched to logging the entries in a similar thread on Mastodon.

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.

I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.