| 词条 | Viola Herms Drath |
| 释义 |
| name = Viola Herms Drath | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Viola Herms | birth_date = February 8, 1920 | baptism_date = | birth_place = Düsseldorf, Germany | death_date = {{death date and given age|2011|8|11|91}} | death_place = Washington, DC | death_cause = Homicide | body_discovered = In her Q street home | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = German-American | other_names = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = M.A. in Philosophy and Germanic Literature | alma_mater = University of Nebraska | occupation = Journalist, writer | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = Authored eight textbooks read in over 150 colleges and universities | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | salary = | net_worth = | height = | weight = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | spouse = Col. Francis S. Drath (first husband) Albrecht Gero Muth (second husband) | children = Connie Dwyer (born 1948), Francesca L. Drath (youngest daughter) | parents = | relatives = | callsign = | awards = William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (2005) | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | website = | footnotes = | box_width = }}Viola Herms Drath (1920–2011) was a Washington, DC socialite, a "notable figure in German-American relations for over thirty years". She died at age 91 by murder at the hands of her second husband.[1] Early lifeDrath was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on February 8, 1920.[1] She is reported to have learned English from vacations and boarding school in Scotland. During her time in Munich, Drath met Lt. Col. Francis S. Drath, who, at the time was the deputy military governor of Bavaria and would later become her first husband, on Lake Constance in Switzerland.[1] Later, she moved to the United States, with her first husband. CareerIn 1946 in Germany, she was a playwright, with one of her early productions, Farewell Isabell,[2] staged in Straubing's Municipal Theater[3] and in Munich. During the post World War II period, Drath was a German interpreter in Munich. After moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, with her first husband, she attended the University of Nebraska where she studied for an advanced degree in literature and philosophy. While in Nebraska, she was an editor of Die Weltpost in Omaha, commentator for KUON-TV, and correspondent for the National Observer. Later she was an American correspondent for the German magazine, Madame. From 1968, Drath was political correspondent for the German newspaper Handelsblatt.[4] During this time, Drath and her first husband moved to Washington, DC, where Col. Drath was a legislative liaison with the Selective Service. They bought a house at 3206 Q Street, Northwest, in the Georgetown district in northwest Washington, D.C.[1] Sonia Adler hired Drath to write for the Washington Dossier,[1] where she wrote about "political gossip, lifestyle advice, and culture, explored a diverse cross-section of the city's fine-art world.[3] As a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, she was described as a "notable figure in German-American relations for over thirty years." One of her articles, published in 1988, for the National Committee, The Reemergence of the German Question proposed negotiations on German unification between the two German states and the four Allied Powers. Drath was a foreign policy adviser during the 1988 Bush campaign, where she helped "lay the groundwork which led to the "2+4" process towards German unification in 1990". In 1989, Drath met with President George H.W. Bush. During her life, she authored eight textbooks read in over 150 colleges and universities. She taught at American University and lectured at the University of Southern California. Her articles and commentaries were published in American Foreign Policy Interests, Washington Times, Commentary, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, Strategic Review, National Observer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Das Parlament, and Der Spiegel. Social activitiesDuring her life, she was member of the White House Commission on Remembrance, co-chair of the Berlin Air Lift Diamond Jubilee Committee, coordinator, International Consultative Mechanism on Remembrance, and National Coordinator, National Observance to Mark Iraq Liberation Day. Diplomatic activitiesDuring the course of Drath's life, she was:
MurderDrath's first husband, Col. Drath, died January 11, 1986. In the early 1980s, Viola met Albrecht Gero Muth, 44 years her junior, who was then an unpaid intern from Germany.[1] Four years after the death of her husband, Drath, then 70 years old, married the 26-year-old Muth.[5] The April 1990 marriage was performed by a Virginia Supreme Court judge.[5] After their marriage, Muth fabricated a story that an elderly German Count had fallen from an elephant in India and needed to appoint a successor before dying—from that point forward, Muth insisted on being called Count Albrecht.[5] Following the 2003 completion of the Iraq War, Muth suddenly adopted the rank, and wore the uniform, of a Brigadier General in the Iraqi Army, organizing diplomatic events in DC that he claimed were for the new Iraqi regime.[1] In April 2011, Muth somehow arranged a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to honour fallen American soldiers in Iraq, supposedly on behalf of the Iraqi regime. Early in the marriage, Muth started a pattern of domestic violence against Drath, inducing repeated police visits to the Q Street home.[1] In August 11, 2011, Drath was found dead in the bathroom of her Q Street home.[4] Muth was later convicted of murdering her."[5] Cultural legacyWarren Adler, author, acknowledged Drath in his novel, The War of the Roses.[3]In 2015, it was announced that Christoph Waltz will direct and star in the movie The Worst Marriage in Georgetown, which is based on the true crime story of the murder of Viola Drath.[6] Awards
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/profile-of-dead-washington-socialite-viola-drath/2011/12/06/gIQAmYQrUP_story.html | title=Viola Drath: A remarkable life hijacked | publisher=Washington Post | date=January 1, 2012 | accessdate=January 16, 2014 | author=White, Josh}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Drath, Viola Herms}}2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/kein-verlass-auf-eine-frau-ein-lustspiel-in-3-akten/oclc/73447158&referer=brief_results | title=Location of copy of Farewell Isabell | publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=January 16, 2014}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2011/08/25/viola-draths-cultural-legacy-a-look-at-the-works-of-a-murdered-d-c-writer/ | title=Viola Drath's Cultural Legacy: A Look at the Works of a Murdered D.C. Writer | publisher=Washington City Paper | date=August 25, 2011 | accessdate=January 16, 2014 | author=Arellano, Megan}} 4. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/14/dc-police-rule-death-former-washington-times-colum/ | title=D.C. police rule death of former Washington Times columnist a homicide | publisher=Washington Times | date=August 14, 2011 | accessdate=January 16, 2014 | author=Weber, Joseph}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/muth-found-guilty-of-murder-in-death-of-socialite-wife/2014/01/16/5a942d9e-7ecd-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html | title=Muth found guilty of murder in killing of socialite wife | publisher=Washington Post | date=January 16, 2014 | accessdate=January 16, 2014 | author=Alexander, Keith L.}} 6. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/05/06/actor-christoph-waltz-will-direct-and-star-in-the-worst-marriage-in-georgetown/ | title=Actor Christoph Waltz will direct and star in 'The Worst Marriage in Georgetown' | publisher=The Washington Post | date=May 6, 2015 | accessdate=May 7, 2015 | author=Andrews, Helena}} 7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/reporter-in-deutschland-a-reader-for-beginners/oclc/4387313&referer=brief_results | title=bib item 1 | publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=January 16, 2014}} 16 : 1920 births|2011 deaths|American women dramatists and playwrights|German women dramatists and playwrights|Murdered American writers|Murdered women writers|German murder victims|Writers from Washington, D.C.|People from Düsseldorf|German expatriates in the United States|University of Nebraska alumni|People murdered in Washington, D.C.|American socialites|20th-century American dramatists and playwrights|20th-century American women writers|20th-century German dramatists and playwrights |
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