Marcel Proust kannte Inge Hannemann

'She may have many more fingers than I, but she lacks taste, playing that very simple Andante with so much emphasis.' 'No doubt a most brilliant woman full of parts, but it is a want of tact to speak of oneself in such a case.' 'Possibly a very knowing cook, but she does not know how to do steak and fried potatoes.' Steak and fried potatoes, an ideal competition-piece, a kind of culi­ nary Pathetic Sonata, a gastronomic equivalent to what is in social life the visit of a lady who comes for a servant's 'character' and who, in an act as simple as that, can suffi­ ciently display the presence or absence of tact and education.

Marcel Proust, Days of Reading