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Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
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Karola Bloch
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Jeanne Hébuterne
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Maria Marc
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Trude Fleischmann
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Jacqueline du Pré
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Born 23 January 1890 in Hanover
Deported 22 or 24 June 1942, date and place of death unknown
German Economist, Professor of Economics, Regierungsrätin (Government official )
Cora Berliner, fifth and last child of a prominent intellectual Jewish family in Hanover, studied mathematics for two semesters before shifting to political economy (political science and economics). In 1916 she earned her doctorate and took a position as department head (Dezernentin) in the city administration of Schöneberg.
In December 1919 she entered the national civil service, becoming an official in the Reich Economics Ministry (Reichswirtschaftsministerium) of the Weimar Republic. Her high level of expertise and confident manner soon made her a sought-after colleague. Ministerialrat Dr. Hans Schäffer, whom she had met in 1920, took her into his department, where she helped shape the National Economic Council (Reichswirtschaftsrat). In 1923 Berliner became a Regierungsrätin (government official) and one of the leading figures in the national Office of Economics (Reichswirtschaftsamt). In her various functions she had dealings with the most important persons of the…read more
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Mary Ward
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Anne Whitney
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Rose Stoppel
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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born on October 29, 1903 in Leipzig
died on January 25, 1975 in Hannover
German dancer, choreographer and ballet mistress
Along with Gret Palucca and Hanya Holm, Yvonne Georgi belongs among the best-known students of Mary Wigman; in her roles as dancer, choreographer and ballet mistress she exercised a decisive influence on the field of dance for decades. During the 1920's she and Harald Kreutzberg delighted audiences on their tours in the USA and inspired young dancers such as José Limón.
Yvonne Georgi was born in Leipzig, the daughter of a respected physician and a French mother who was more than twenty years her husband's junior. It is rare and in fact amazing that the talent of this great artist, who had no dance instruction as a child, was discovered almost by chance during a pantomime performance at the home of a friend. She was seventeen years old at the time, finished with school and beginning her training to become a librarian at the famous German Library in Leipzig. At this point she began to study dance on the side and was soon performing her own self-created dances at the variety…read more
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Harriet Backer
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Policarpa Salavarrieta - La Pola
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Chiara Lubich
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born June 7, 1907 in Chrzanów (Schidlow), Galicia, Poland
died January 21, 1975, in Zurich, Switzerland
Polish-German-Jewish poet
40th anniversary of death January 21 2015
Made famous at an early age by her witty satirical verses in the tradition of Heine and Tucholsky, Mascha Kaléko lived out the fate of many of those forced to give up their home and career by the Nazis. After publishing two highly successful volumes celebrating and satirizing urban life in the late Weimar Republic, Kaléko, a Jew, was forced into exile. Although she was later able to write again, her comeback in the 1950´s was short-lived, and her later years were marked by disappointment and isolation.
Kaléko knew the feeling of being a homeless outsider from an early age, when her family emigrated to Germany from poverty-stricken Galicia (in Poland), and she successfully assimilated by learning to speak the local Berlin dialect, as her first poems reflect.
Kaléko left school at around 16 and worked as a secretary; she delightfully captured the trials and tribulations of this work in her early poems, published first in newspapers, then by Ernst Rowohlt as Das lyrische…read more
