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Alix Dobkin
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Annie M. G. Schmidt
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Valentine Ackland
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Kate Field
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Cher
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Born 13 September 1819 in Leipzig
Died 20 May 1896 in Frankfurt am Main
German pianist and composer, wife of composer Robert Schumann
200th birthday on 13 September 2019
Her remarkable early training and discipline, outstanding musical talent, and determined character and sense of mission made Clara Wieck Schumann one of the most widely acclaimed German women of the 19th century. Best known in her time as a consummate performer and tireless promoter of her husband Robert Schumann’s works, as well as a sought-after teacher and composer in her own right, she has remained famous into the 20th century and beyond – memorialized in Germany on postage stamp and currency and the subject of film (e.g. by Helma Sanders-Brahms) and drama (e.g. by Elfriede Jelinek).
From the beginning, her life story has fascinated. As an amazing child prodigy Clara Wieck was praised and fawned over by royalty and the artistic and intellectual elite of the time, from the Austrian emperor to Goethe and the Austrian poet Grillparzer. As a young woman her romance with and marriage to the charismatic and gifted Robert Schumann seemed to offer a unique new model for…read more
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divorced Lübke, married von Rechenberg-Linten
born May 18, 1871 in Husum, Germany
died July 26, 1918 in Locarno, Switzerland
German writer
Franziska Countess zu Reventlow, whose dates—1871-1918—coincide with those of the Wilhelmine German Empire, has traditionally been pigeonholed as the scandalous bohemian of the Schwabing circles in Munich around the last turn of the century. Public attention has focused largely on her defiant personal rejection of conventional morality as she presented herself as a practitioner of free love and single motherhood. Yet she was also an author whose works captured the tensions of the pre-WWI generation and contributed to the lively debate about women’s liberation around 1900.
Fanny, as she was called as a child, was born into a north German noble family of traditional morals and stiff etiquette. Her rebellious nature prevented her from following the expected path of behaving like a young lady, marrying an appropriate nobleman and traveling in German high society. Instead, she was in constant conflict with her mother and managed to get thrown out of boarding school for misbehavior…read more
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Helen Taussig
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Käte Duncker
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born on May 19, 1771 in Berlin
died on March 7, 1833 in Berlin
German thinker, writer, salonière
"With what freedom and grace she knew how to inspire, enlighten and warm all around her! [...] I heard colossal sayings from her, true inspirations, often in just a few words, which traveled through the air like lightning bolts and struck one's innermost heart." This is how Count Salm described the young Jewish banker's daughter Rahel Levin in her first Berlin salon (1790-1806). The social conventions of the time did not apply in that salon: actors and aristocrats as well as the poets and thinkers of the Romantic Era met here for heady discussions about literature, art and philosophy and to listen to Rahel's "Dachstubenwahrheiten" (candid truths). Here Prince Louis Ferdinand encountered his lover, the beautiful and scandalous Pauline Wiesel, Rahel's close friend, and here you could find the Schlegel brothers, Tieck, Wilhelm und Caroline von Humboldt as well as Clemens Brentano and Schleiermacher.
Rahel was revered for her witty conversation and wise judgments, and was…read more
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Nellie Melba
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