Claudia Bernal

Claudia Bernal (1895-1964) was a Cuban-Brunanter journalist and socialite. Bernal was a writer for the leftist The Daily Post, as a writer in and later head of the political section of the paper. Bernal was also the owner of a sugar cane plantation and with her wealth hosted lavish parties.

Biography
Bernal was born in 1886, the daughter of Fausto Bernal, a Cuban landowner of Italian origin, and Franca Belmont of Niesburg. Following the Little War in Cuba in 1880, Bernal left for Brunant, where he would have six children. Claudia was born on a farm near Niesburg.

Her two brothers all returned to Cuba in 1896 to fight for independence and both were killed. The death of her father in 1903 led to her being given large estates in Cuba and most of his fortune.

Bernal married journalist Alexander Henneman (1887-1940) in 1917 and they would move to Vienna in 1919, where they would have a son, Josef. In 1928 they returned to Brunant and she began working at the leftist newspaper The Daily Post, herself a much more liberal person than her husband.