{"id":1953,"date":"2023-03-08T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:56:36","slug":"a-pillar-of-the-athens-department-during-the-emil-kunze-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/2023\/03\/08\/a-pillar-of-the-athens-department-during-the-emil-kunze-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Tzannetaki (1925\u20132004) A Pillar of the Athens Department during the Emil Kunze years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>While there is abundant information about former directors and aides of the Institute in comprehensive accounts of its history, in obituaries, and in <em>Festschriften<\/em>, things are very different for people who did not publish or whose names do not appear in printed documents. It is not easy to get a picture of the active support personnel whose efforts made smooth operations of the Institute possible \u2013 the excavation workers, porters, drivers, cleaners, illustrators, restorers, photography lab technicians, administrative assistants, and secretaries. For these people, we ultimately must rely only on the memories of contemporaries as we attempt to include them in the Institute`s &#8216;Oral Archive&#8217; project. Over the past three years, around 70 former employees, their family members and friends of the Institute, were asked for mainly written statements on their personal memories (compare Brandt 2021). Many of them readily obliged; some even shared valuable photographic material with us. Only in this way is it possible to reconstruct a picture of people who once were so important to the life of the Institute, people like Maria Tzannetaki (n\u00e9e Rangoussi; fig. 1), who have not been mentioned in any of the histories of the Institute to date.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1962\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 742px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1962 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/01-tz-16-img862-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/01-tz-16-img862-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/01-tz-16-img862-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/01-tz-16-img862-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/01-tz-16-img862.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1. Maria Rangoussi, photographed by the Greek photographer Nelly&#8217;s, circa 1950. Private archive of Petros and Tonia Tzannetakis, reproduced in Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017 (n.p.).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maria Rangoussi came from a prestigious and influential Greek family (G. Saitas in Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017, 53). Her father, Antonios Rangoussis, from Paros, had served since 1940 as a councilor on the Hellenic Council of State (\u03a3\u03c5\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2) and as mayor of Athens in 1950\/1951 (Chalazonitis et al. 2005, 227). Her mother, Ioli Bonapartopoulou, came from Alexandria. Maria Rangoussi attended the German School of Athens and studied Classical Archeology at the University of Athens since 1943\/1944. On April 1, 1953, she began work at her first and only position: she became the secretary and right hand of Emil Kunze at the DAI Athens, which had just been returned to the German state in 1951. Since such positions were not publicly advertised at the time, Rangoussi must have been recommended to the Institute, but the background of her hiring can no longer be reconstructed. Most probably, it was the married couple Semni and Christos Karouzos (the Karouzoi) who recommended the young archeologist (personal testimony of Erika Kunze-G\u00f6tte, Olga Alexandri-Tzachou, Tonia Tzannetaki). The close friendship between Emil Kunze and the Karouzoi, which stretched back to the period before WWII, and their role in the quick return of the Institute in 1951 are well known. Directly or indirectly, they must have acted as intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at a foundational moment, Maria Rangoussi joined the life of an institute that was in the midst of a new beginning. In 1951, the first year of the restitution, only a few people were present at the Institute, and they probably had a variety of different tasks: in addition the director, Emil Kunze (since June 5, 1951), the researcher Franz Willemsen, and initially the secretary Ioanna Politi, there was the Feiler family, who worked as porters and messengers, and the librarian Georgios Demis. The student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/2022\/03\/21\/hildegund-gropengiesser-1928-2019\/\">Hildegunde Gropengie\u00dfer<\/a> began to help in the photography archive in 1953. Additional people did not arrive until 1954: the architectural historian Alfred Mallwitz as researcher, archeologist Ulrich Hausmann, who was responsible for the photograph collection and was assisted by Klaus Tuchelt in its reorganization, photographer Eva-Maria Czak\u00f3, administrative director Werner Milde, and the second director Dieter Ohly shortly before the year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>After Ioanna Politi (Willemsen\u2019s future wife) left her position on March 31, 1953, Maria Rangoussi seamlessly succeeded her on April 1, 1953. In addition to the usual business, she apparently supported Emil Kunze in all the Institute\u2019s affairs. During this time of reconstruction, there were many tasks of no small importance: the building had to be renovated after the officials and refugees who had occupied it during WWII and the Civil War had left; the library and the photography archive, which had been put in storage or relocated, had to be retrieved and organized; excavations and research were supposed to resume; and the Institute as a whole wanted to be recognized again as a place of scholarly exchange. We may assume that Maria Rangoussi was more like Kunze\u2019s aide and assistant in all these sundry tasks than a typical secretary of the day.<\/p>\n<p>In 1954, Rangoussi married Tzannis Tzannetakis, a naval officer in the submarine division, and took his name. Tzannetakis came from an old family from the Mani Peninsula; the future prime minister Georgios Papandreou, a close friend of the father of the bride, acted as best man (fig. 2).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1963\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 940px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1963 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837-1024x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/02-tz-img837.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 2. Wedding of Maria Rangoussi and Tzannis Tzannetakis, 1954. The father of the bride, Antonios Rangoussis, far right; best man Georgios Papandreou, far left. Private archive of Petros and Tonia Tzannetakis, reproduced in Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017 (n.p.).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maria Tzannetaki continued to work at the Institute even after the birth of her children Petros (1955) and Antonia-Ioli, nicknamed Tonia (1959). She was close friends with many different members of the Institute. In addition to the Kunze and Ohly families, the photographer Eva-Maria Czak\u00f3 (nicknamed <em>Czakolein<\/em>, as Tonia Tzannetaki remembers), the archeologist Hildegunde Gropengie\u00dfer, she was close to Alfred Mallwitz (<em>Mallwitzaki mou<\/em>, Mallwitz 2022, 31, a researcher in Athens since 1954) and his family, Gerhard Neumann (researcher in the photography archive, 1963\u20131967) and his wife Ms. Charikleia, Peter R. Franke (researcher from the Commission for Ancient History, 1961\u20131964) and his wife Eleonore, Werner Fuchs (researcher, 1962\u20131966) and his English wife, with whom Tzannis Tzannetakis practiced his English (personal memory of Tonia Tzannetaki \u2013 Tzannis Tzannetakis in fact was responsible for the Greek translation of Patrick Leigh Fermor\u2019s book <em>Mani<\/em>, which Tzannetakis produced in exile on Cythera; the two later became friends), and Gottfried Gruben (who worked in the Kerameikos and later became a researcher in architectural history, 1958\u20131966) and his wife Doris. Rangoussi was also integrated in wider archeological circles and maintained lively friendships; she was close to the Karouzoi (personal memory of Tonia Tzannetaki), who in turn introduced Angelos Delivorrias to Maria and Tzannis Tzannetakis. Delivorrias later undertook numerous joint projects with Tzannetakis (A. Delivorrias in: Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017, 219 \u2013 227). Thanks to her mediation, the young archaeologist Elena Karydi (now Walter-Karydi) would get a chance to work with Dieter Ohly in the Kerameikos from 1959 (personal memory of Elena Walter-Karydi). Olga Alexandri-Tzachou and Lila Marangou still have fond memories of their friend Maria Tzannetaki today.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Tzannetaki was not only Kunze\u2019s indispensable aide in offical business affairs of the Institute. According to his daughter-in-law, Erika Kunze-G\u00f6tte, she was the soul of the Institute as she was completely integrated in its life. Angelos Delivorrias writes: \u201cThe pretty archeologist Maria Rangoussi-Tzannetaki worked at the German Archeological Institute as Kunze\u2019s assistant and collaborator and actively looked after the newcomers to research everyday. When she finished her work, an equally handsome man often came to pick her up and left with her. That was Tzannis.\u201d (\u201c\u03a9\u03c2 \u03b2\u03bf\u03b7\u03b8\u03cc\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c1\u03b3\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 Kunze, \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u0393\u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u0391\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u0399\u03bd\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03cd\u03c4\u03bf \u03b5\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1\u03b6\u03cc\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03ad\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2, \u03b7 \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u03a1\u03b1\u03b3\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b7-\u03a4\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7, \u03b5\u03ba\u03b4\u03b7\u03bb\u03ce\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03ad\u03bc\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03ad\u03b3\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03ac \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03bd\u03b5\u03bf\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2. \u038c\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03bc\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b7 \u03b4\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03ac \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2, \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c0\u03af\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03ad\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ac\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c1\u03c7\u03cc\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03c3\u03c5\u03c7\u03bd\u03ac \u03bd\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03c0\u03ac\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03c6\u03cd\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03bc\u03b1\u03b6\u03af. \u0391\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 \u03ae\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03bf \u03a4\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03ae\u03c2\u201d; A. Delivorrias in: Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017, 220). In his written statement to us, Vassileios Petrakos recalled that readers in the library of the DAI Athens found everything in pristine condition every morning; and if anyone needed something, they could always turn to the ever-helpful Maria Tzannetaki. She was probably also involved in the library affairs in various aspects; her engagement in an inventory with the rest of the collaborators of the Institute is attested (2nd quarterly report 1956, Archive of the DAI Athens).<\/p>\n<p>Tzannetaki\u2019s good relations with her colleagues is reflected on many photographs of her taken by or with them. Together with her husband Tzannis, she occasionally visited Olympia, where she asked Kunze and Mallwitz about the progress of the excavations. One photograph shows the Tzannetakis together with the Kunzes in front of the excavation house in Olympia (fig. 3)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1964\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1000px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1964 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/03-tz-img829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/03-tz-img829.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/03-tz-img829-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/03-tz-img829-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 3. Olympia, early 1960s. Maria and Tzannis Tzannetakis, right; Emil Kunze, middle; his wife Athina Kunze, left, and an unknown woman. Private archive of Petros und Tonia Tzannetakis (photographer unknown), reproduced in Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017 (n.p.).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other private photographs show her together with the Mallwitz family, for example, on the beach in Loutsa or at their house on Aigina (fig. 4).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1965\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 940px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/04-tz-EME-1_23B_E1964_300-1024x928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/04-tz-EME-1_23B_E1964_300-1024x928.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/04-tz-EME-1_23B_E1964_300-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/04-tz-EME-1_23B_E1964_300-768x696.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/04-tz-EME-1_23B_E1964_300.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 4. Eva Mallwitz (left) and Maria Tzannetaki with her daughter Tonia in 1964, outside the Mallwitzs\u2019 house on Aigina. Private archive of Detlef Mallwitz, EME-1_22B_E1964_300. (Photograph taken probably by Tzannis Tzannetakis, who in another photograph from the series appears standing opposite them with his Rollei camera; it could have also been Alfred Mallwitz, who had an identical camera).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She was remembered as bubbly, warm, passionate, friends with everyone at the Institute, and deeply appreciated (\u201cesteemed secretary of the Institute\u201d [\u201chochgesch\u00e4tzte Institutssekret\u00e4rin\u201d], personal memory of F. Hamdorf). \u201cThere was something generously noble about her; she spoke a very beautiful, marvelous German; she was a noble, educated lady,\u201d Erika Kunze-G\u00f6tte remembered in 2023. The Kunzes and even their children, with their grandchildren, often visited the Tzannetaki family in summer at their home on Paros.<\/p>\n<p>A new, momentous chapter began for Maria Tzannetaki and her family when the military putsch shook Greece on April 21, 1967. Her husband Tzannis left the navy in protest the very next day. He was monitored and followed \u2013 and apparently the Institute and its guests and projects were too, as Friedrich Wilhelm Hamdorf remembred in his interview \u2013 he was arrested in 1969, placed for a year in solitary confinement, and subsequently another year in exile on Cythera.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel changes also took place during the year of the putsch. Emil Kunze retired on March 31, 1967 and Ulf Jantzen succeeded him as director on August 18, 1967. On January 31, 1968 Maria Tzannetaki left the Institute. There may have been many reasons for her departure. Jantzen, the new director, who signed her dismissal, believed he needed to restructure the department; he needed a secretary and could not impose additional duties on a \u201clady of society.\u201d After 14 years of close collaboration with the Institute under Kunze, in the midst of new personal challenges during the junta, and confronted with a new director who deliberately wanted to break with his predecessor\u2019s approach, Maria Tzannetaki herself may not have been interested in staying on at the Institute, as her daughter Tonia suspects. Her impression is that it was her mother\u2019s decision to leave; she had her hands full as it was. But she always recalled the Institute fondly and maintained friendships with many of its members. A few months after her departure, she took part in the &#8220;Richtfest&#8221; of the new excavation building at Olympia together with her daughter Tonia on May 25, 1968, where she can be seen alongside Kunze (fig. 5). Aliki Moustaka recalls that Tzannetaki regularly visited the Institute for Winckelmann celebrations even into the early 1980s. And even upon Emil Kunze\u2019s last trip to Greece shortly before his 85<sup>th<\/sup> birthday in 1986, Maria Tzannetaki was among the people who helped making his trip as pleasing as possible (Schiering 1995, 25).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1966\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 940px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1966 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/05-tz-DMA_5-59-A-nummeriert-1024x919.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/05-tz-DMA_5-59-A-nummeriert-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/05-tz-DMA_5-59-A-nummeriert-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/05-tz-DMA_5-59-A-nummeriert-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/05-tz-DMA_5-59-A-nummeriert-1536x1378.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 5. Fig. 5. \u201cRichtfest\u201d, feast celebrating the placing of the roof of the new German excavation building at Olympia, May 15, 1968. Maria Tzannetaki (5) appears in the back row to the left of Alfred Mallwitz (6) and Emil Kunze (7). Other identified people: (2) Elias Chrysostomos, the cook; (4) Georgios Papathanasopoulos, archeologist of the Ephorate; (8) representative of the German Embassy in Athens, (9) Alkis Spiliopoulos (with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of German, which he received on this occasion), (10) Katina Drinis, (11) Raimund W\u00fcnsche, (12) Karl Mallwitz, (14) Tonia Tzannetaki, (18) Friedrich Mallwitz, (25) Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer, (29) Panagiota, daughter of Alkis Spiliopoulos, (30) Georgios Spiropoulos, restorer; (31) Eva Mallwitz, (32) Elke Gauer, (33) Werner Gauer, (36) Vassiliki Spiliopoulou, nicknamed \u201cAlkina,\u201d wife of Alkis Spiliopoulos, (37) Georgios Spiliopoulos, (38) Elke Spiliopoulou, wife of Georgios Spiliopoulos, (39) Berta Heupel, n\u00e9e Baer (illustrator and mother of Marina Heilmeyer), (40) Marina Heilmeyer, (41) laborer Jannis Paraskevopoulos, (42) Ioannis Drinis. Private archive of Detlef Mallwitz DMA 5\/59A (Photograph by G\u00f6sta Hellner?).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the Nea Demokratia was founded in 1974 and Tzannis Tzannetakis spent the next 30 years playing an important part in the political life of Greece, Maria Tzannetaki had various interests and obligations at his side. Tzannetakis held different offices: he was General Secretary of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (EOT), Minister of Public Works, even Prime Minister briefly, Minister of National Defense and Minister of Culture, and Vice-President for three and a half years. Maria Tzannetaki\u2019s charm and great charisma can be seen in a photograph taken during a conversation between the couple and the German chancellor Willy Brandt during a state visit in Greece in 1989 (fig. 6).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1967\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 940px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1967 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/06-tz-unnamed-6-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/06-tz-unnamed-6-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/06-tz-unnamed-6-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/06-tz-unnamed-6-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/06-tz-unnamed-6-1536x1160.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 6. Maria and Tzannis Tzannetakis in conversation with Willy Brandt, 1989; private archive of Petros and Tonia Tzannetaki (photographer unknown).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Maria Tzannetaki died in 2004, Eleni Bistika eulogized her as follows in the Greek newspaper <em>Kathimerini<\/em> (November 19, 2004, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathimerini.gr\/opinion\/696683\/maria-tzannetaki-mia-zoi-gemati-agapi-kai-endiaferonta-tora-apochairetismos\/\">https:\/\/www.kathimerini.gr\/opinion\/696683\/maria-tzannetaki-mia-zoi-gemati-agapi-kai-endiaferonta-tora-apochairetismos\/<\/a>, accessed on February 15, 2023):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was proud of her gallant husband, a democrat and naval officer who was imprisoned and exiled during the junta. It was then that Maria left her successful career as an archeologist at the German Archeological Institute and stayed near her children, accompanying Tzannis with her beautiful and stately presence as he embarked on his new political career after independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201e\u039a\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03bb\u03b5\u03b2\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b7 \u03c3\u03cd\u03b6\u03c5\u03b3\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2, \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03b4\u03b7\u03bc\u03bf\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b9 \u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae \u03b1\u03be\u03b9\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b5\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd \u039d\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c6\u03c5\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03be\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5 \u03b5\u03c0\u03af \u03c7\u03bf\u03cd\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2. \u03a4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5 \u03ae\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b7 \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u03ac\u03c6\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c4\u03c5\u03c7\u03b7\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03b3\u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u0391\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03a3\u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae \u03ba\u03b9 \u03ad\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5 \u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03ac \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2, \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03b5\u03cd\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03af\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03a4\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03ae \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03bd\u03ad\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac \u03c4\u03b7 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03b7.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The DAI Athens wishes to remember this presence of one of the many women who was not primarily a scholar but gave valuable support to the Athens Department (fig. 7).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1968\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1968 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/07-tz-unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/07-tz-unnamed-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/07-tz-unnamed-1-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Fig. 7. Maria Tzannetaki, 1992. Private archive of Petros and Tonia Tzannetakis (photographer unknown).<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Works cited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.org\/documents\/10180\/15360\/AtheNea+2021.pdf\/7faac9d8-bc5f-cb70-16a5-38f144059a7d\">Brandt 2021<\/a><br>Brandt, Jubil\u00e4um 2024 \u2013 150 Jahre DAI Athen, in: AtheNea 2020\/2021, 8\u201311<\/p>\n<p>Chalazonitis et al. 2005<br>M. Chalazonitis \u2013 K. D. Kousoulis \u2013 P. K. Tsoukas \u2013 V. P. Androulakis \u2013 F. A. Giannakou \u2013 A. M. Roxana \u2013 N. P. Sekeroglou, \u03a4\u03bf \u03a3\u03c5\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2. \u039f \u03b8\u03b5\u03c3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1 \u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03c3\u03c9\u03c0\u03b1 (Athens 2005)<\/p>\n<p>Delivorrias \u2013 Chatzivassileiou 2017<br>A. Delivorrias \u2013 E. Chatzivassileiou (eds.), \u03a4\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03ae\u03c2 \u03a4\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 (1927\u20132010). \u0391\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03b7\u03c4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03b7 (Athens 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Mallwitz 2022<br>D. Mallwitz, Aut\u00f3 I. Zwischen A und O. Autobiographie von Delta Mi, Band I (Ortwig an der Oder 022)<\/p>\n<p>Schiering 1995<br>W. Schiering, Gedenkrede auf Emil Kunze, AM 110, 1995, 13\u201325<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Archival sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DAI Athens, wissenschaftliches Archiv, varia<\/p>\n<p>DAI Athens, Archiv \u201cJubil\u00e4um 2024 \u2013 Institutsgeschichte.\u201d Interviews with O. Alexandri-Tzachou, E. Kunze-G\u00f6tte, F. Hamdorf, V. Petrakos.<\/p>\n<p>We especially want to thank Tonia Tzannetaki, Erika Kunze-G\u00f6tte, and Detlef Mallwitz for providing us with extensive information and for making photographs available; and we further thank Wolf-Dietrich Heilmeyer, Gerhild H\u00fcbner, Lila Marangou, Aliki Moustaka, and Elena Walter-Karydi for sharing their memories with us.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is abundant information about former directors and aides of the Institute in comprehensive accounts of its history, in obituaries, and in Festschriften, things are very different for people who did not publish or whose names do not appear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/2023\/03\/08\/a-pillar-of-the-athens-department-during-the-emil-kunze-years\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,231,206,202,131,32,226,249,204,245,221,222,186,65,250,224,243,72,198,196,199,195,232,152,211,212,241,68,223,71,197,187,201,188,227,217,230,220,219,67,162,233,189,203,34,228,215,239,238,69,247,193,200,244,248,216,235,236,218,237,210,242,213,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alexandri-tzachou-olga","category-bistika-eleni","category-brandt-willy","category-chrystostomos-elias","category-czako-eva-maria","category-dai-staff","category-delivorrias-angelos","category-demis-georgios","category-drinis-ioannis","category-franke-eleonore","category-franke-peter-r","category-fuchs-werner","category-gauer-elke","category-gropengiesser-hildegund","category-gruben-doris","category-gruben-gottfried","category-hamdorf-friedrich-wilhelm","category-hausmann-ulrich","category-heilmeyer-marina","category-heilmeyer-wolf-dieter","category-hellner-gosta","category-heupel-berta-nee-baer","category-hubner-gerhild","category-jantzen-ulf","category-karouzos-christos","category-karouzou-semni","category-kunze-gotte-erika","category-kunze-emil","category-leigh-fermor-patrick","category-mallwitz-alfred","category-mallwitz-detlef","category-mallwitz-eva","category-mallwitz-friedrich","category-mallwitz-karl","category-marangou-lila","category-milde-werner","category-moustaka-aliki","category-neumann-chariklea","category-neumann-gerhard","category-ohly-dieter","category-other-personnel","category-papandreou-georgios","category-papathanasopoulos-giorgios","category-paraskevopoulos-jannis","category-people","category-petrakos-vassileios","category-politi-ioanna","category-rangoussi-ioli-nee-bonapartopoulou","category-rangoussis-antonios","category-spiliopoulos-alkibiades","category-spiliopoulos-georgios","category-spiliopoulou-elke","category-spiliopoulou-panagiota","category-spiliopoulou-vasiliki-alkina","category-spiropoulos-georgios","category-tuchelt-klaus","category-tzannetaki-antonia-ioli-tonia","category-tzannetaki-maria-nee-rangoussi","category-tzannetakis-petros","category-tzannetakis-tzannis","category-venizelos-eleftherios","category-walter-karydi-elena-nee-karydi","category-willemsen-franz","category-wunsche-raimund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/people-at-the-dai-athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}