Carl-Axel Söderström (23 December 1893 – 27 November 1976) was a Swedish photographer and cinematographer who accompanied

Clärenore Stinnes Clara Eleonore "Clärenore" Stinnes-Söderstrom (née Stinnes; 21 January 1901 – 7 September 1990) was a German female auto racer, heiress and socialite. Together with Swedish cinematographer Carl-Axel Söderström, the two were the first ...

on a two-year automobile journey around the world.

Biography

Söderström was born on 23 December 1893 in Korsnäs, Sweden to a smith. He was trained as a photographer in the Stockholm branch of the Pathé Brothers Company. On 25 November 1923, in the

German Church, Stockholm The German Church ( ; ), sometimes called St. Gertrude's Church (), is a church (building), church in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, belonging to the German Saint Gertrude Parish of the Church of Sweden. Located be ...

Söderström married the four-years-younger Gertrud Martha Vahl, born in

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to a German confectioner who had emigrated to Sweden with his wife and six children. On 25 May 1927 Söderström started to journey around the world, as a photographer for Clärenore Stinnes, whom he had met only two days before their departure, in a mass production Adler Standard 6 automobile and escorted by two mechanics and a freight vehicle with spare parts and equipment. Stinnes' journey was sponsored by the German automotive industry ( Adler, Bosch and Aral) with 100,000

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. After their happy return, Carl-Axel Söderström divorced Martha, who died in 1985 without children. Söderström and Stinnes married in December 1930 and lived on an estate in Sweden, where they raised three children of their own and several foster children. In later years they spent some time of the year in Irmenach. Söderström died in 1976, aged 82, survived by Stinnes.

Partial filmography

* '' The Story of a Boy'' (1919) * '' 40 Skipper Street'' (1925) * ''

To the Orient ''To the Orient'' (Swedish: ''Till österland'') is a 1926 Swedish silent drama film directed as well as co-written by Gustaf Molander and starring Lars Hanson, Jenny Hasselqvist and Mona Mårtenson.Qvist & Von Bagh p.29 It was shot at the R ...

'' (1926)

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1893 births 1976 deaths 20th-century Swedish people Swedish photographers People from Falun Municipality {{Europe-photographer-stub