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Article: The art of the Mutter Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter wants it both ways. She seeks publicity but protects her privacy. She is as contradictory as the music she plays.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2000
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THE brilliant and beautiful German fiddle-player Anne-Sophie
Mutter, daughter of a journalist, plays the round of Press interviews
before an appearance with a straight, defensive bat. She both desires
publicity but guards her privacy like a wicket. No, she will not tell
me how old her children are now. "They are private individuals. I
think they would prefer to stay that way." I dare not ask anything
about her husband, Detlef Wunderlick, a tax adviser, who died in
1995. More cunning American journalists before me have wheedled his
name into their copy.
Still, if the Kinder are anything like their extraordinary Mutter,
they already know their own minds. "When I decided at the age of six
to ...