Helen Wolff

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Annemarie Selinko

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Claudette Colbert

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Beatrix Potter

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Anna Stainer-Knittel

Born 28 July 1841 in Elbigenalp in the Lech Valley, Austria
Died 28 February 1915 in Wattens, Austria

Austrian painter from North Tyrol, the original “Geierwally” (“Eagle Wally”)

Biography What Andreas Hofer is for the Tyrolese among men, “Geierwally” is among women – a role model, a female with qualities usually associated with only the best men of this Alpine folk, an unyielding figure who defies even the mountain spirits, the “Murzoll” and his daughters, the “saligen Fräuleins” (Blessed Maidens). And – precisely because she is a woman and not a man – she commands respect and even seems dangerous. As is often the case, the evolution of her heroic image reflects a long-since inspeparable combination of reality and fiction. But in fact the “real” Geierwally, Anna Stainer Knittel from the Lech Valley, was a woman who wouldn’t have needed to be mythologized: Perhaps she became a legend because she lived her life with great intentionality, independence and great determination. She had no fear of the forces of nature that often intimidate inhabitants of the mountains. Anna Knittel was born on July 28th, 1841 in Elbigenalp in the Lech Valley, the…read more

Karoline von Günderrode

German author

Born 11 February 1780 in Karlsruhe
Died 26 July in Winkel in Rheingau
200th anniversary of death on 26 July 2006

Karoline, the oldest of six siblings, came from a cultivated but impoverished aristocratic family. In 1797 she entered a residence for noblewomen in Frankfurt, an institution in which poor unmarried aristocratic ladies were cared for and could live respectably while still keeping an eye out for a suitable marriage partner. Karoline was described as beautiful, gentle and shy. She and her friend Lisette Mettingh discussed society’s discrimination against women. One way to escape such limitations was education, which Karoline acquired by indefatigable reading. She was soon as knowledgeable as the best-educated of her time. Karoline concerned herself with literature, philosophy, far-eastern and Norse mythology, chemistry, geography, history of religion, physiognomy, Latin and prosody. She also wrote dramas, poetry, and above all letters—the letter established itself during the Romantic period as a literary genre in its own right. Letters were a demonstration of intellectual…read more

Nannerl Mozart

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Gertrude Stein

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Diane Arbus

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