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Daniela Ambrosoli (born November 10, 1941 in Ascona) is a Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder and president of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, and film director. She lives in Zurich.
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Biography
Daniela Ambrosoli, daughter of German dancer Sonja Bragowa and Italian entrepreneur Pierino Ambrosoli, from Lombardy, was born in Ascona, Switzerland. She attends schools in Ascona and Locarno, where she obtains the Swiss Conferation classical (Latin) matura. During the following years she studies and works in the fields of psychology and medicine in Florence, Zurich and Geneva.
After the premature death of her father, she learns management and takes over some of the companies that were founded by her father, amongst which the Camping Delta in Locarno in 1983, together with her husband Franz Marcacci, and the real estate company Amministrazioni Immobiliari Ambrosoli in Locarno. In 1999 she founds the Travel & Culture Management AG in Zurich. In 1990, Daniela Ambrosoli founds the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation in Zurich, an organization that supports young talents from all over the world in their dance and music training.
In the following years Daniela Ambrosoli is engaged in numerous executive boards of international associations working active in the fields of dance, such as Prix de Lausanne, and music, as well as in humanitarian and social issues, e.g. Soroptimist International Swiss Union.
As a result of her collaboration with the Italian film director Renato Pugina, together with two of her children, Aliocha Merker (cameraman and still photographer in Rome) and Shari Yantra Marcacci (photographer, film director and producer in Los Angeles), Daniela Ambrosoli gets in contact with the world of movies. Since 2004 she works with Renato Pugina as assistant director, organizer and translator of documentaries for the Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI / Radio and Television of Italian Switzerland): "La Depressione, il male oscuro" (2004), "Sul corpo e nel cuore" (2007), "In un corpo sbagliato" (2009), "Madri figlicide" (2010), "L'ultimo viaggio" (2013), "I sopravvisuti" (2014), "Il sogno di Hans" (2015), "Via dal Ticino" (2015). Daniela is co-director with Renato Pugina for the documentary "Per Amor di Dio" (2011) RSI.
In 2008/2009, Daniela Ambrosoli realizes a documentary about Hermann Nitsch, the famous Austrian artist and founding father of the Viennese Actionism. Together with her team, including Aliocha Merker as cameraman and director of photography and Johannes Nakajima as editor, she accompanies Nitsch in his private life and life as an artist during a whole year, to then paint the poignant portrait of this extraordinary man. In 2011, the film "HN Hermann Nitsch" is awarded with the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Daniela lives in Zurich with her husband Franz Marcacci.
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Awards
2011 Audience Choice Award - Best Documentary, the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Los Angeles