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Elizabeth Bishop
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Grete Wehmeyer
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Irma Stern
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Anne Charlotte Leffler
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Dorothy Arzner
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Ina Seidel
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Mercedes Sosa
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Joan Littlewood
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Gerda Weiler
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Bette Davis
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Margarete of Tyrol
called Margarete Maultasch
Born 1318 in Tyrol
Died 3 October 1369 in Vienna
Ruler of Tyrol
Margarete, called »Maultasch« (“Mouthpocket”), was the daughter of Adelheid of Braunschweig (Brunswick) and the Tyrolean count Heinrich, also Duke of Kärnten (Carinthia). She was twelve when she was married to the son of the king of Bohemia, three years her junior. After the death of her father in 1335 young Margarete took charge of political affairs in the entire country, which was threatened at the time by the most powerful European dynasties. She lost Kärnten, but successfully defended Tyrol in alliance with its nobility. In 1341 she denied her husband entry to Schloss Tirol (the Castle of Tyrol), thereby forcing him to flee. She accused him of being violent and infertile. Emperor Ludwig (Louis) of Bavaria, who had been cultivating expansionist aims for some time, urged her to marry his son Ludwig of Brandenburg. He declared Margarete’s first marriage to be null and void and went forward with the match between her and his son despite the resistance of the pope. As a result…read more
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Dorothee Sölle
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American poet
born November 9, 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts
died October 4, 1974 in Weston, Massachusetts
A child of the same generation as Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlen Haushofer and Caroline Muhr, Anne Sexton wrote confessional poetry of an entirely new honesty and precision, exploring intimate themes of family, love, loss, guilt, death and madness, which she hoped would have the "authentic stamp" to serve, as she quoted Kafka," as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
Anne Sexton's mother had attended Wellesley College and was, as Sexton maintained, her sternest critic, having discouraged Anne's earliest poetic efforts in high school by a disparaging comment. Her father was a succesful businessman. Anne briefly attended college in Boston before eloping at age nineteen with Alfred "Kayo" Muller Sexton II, the son of a wealthy family. Settled in the suburbs near Boston, Sexton had two daughters, and saw herself as a "victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream," wanting only "to be married, to have children," and "trying [her] damnedest to live a…read more
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born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
US-American photographer
75th birthday on October 2, 2024
Annie Leibovitz, the "most important iconographer of American pop culture" (FAZ), has played a key role in shaping the collective visual memory since the 1970s. Her best-known images include John Lennon naked and curled up beside Yoko Ono, Whoopie Goldberg sprawled out in a bathtub filled with milk, Bette Midler in a bed of roses and Demi Moore nude and in an advanced stage of pregnancy on the cover of Vanity Fair. To be photographed by Annie Leibovitz is considered an honor. She stages "miniature dramas" of the public personas of musicians, actors, artists, politicians and athletes for portraits that both reveal and that mask. By playfully referencing the fame of the celebrity, she transforms it into an ironic mythos. Her celebrity portraits oscillate between what is pure glamour and what is genuine, and a new reality is created through her staging.
After studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, Annie Leibovitz submitted a portfolio of photographs to Rolling…read more
