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Eva Gräfin von Baudissin (1869-1943) is one of the German writers born in the 19th century who were forgotten, although they were highly successful in the early 20th century. The Munich-based journalist wrote feature articles, essays and sketches for various newspapers and worked for radio and film. She was a member of the Münchner Verein für Fraueninteressen and therefore part of Bavaria's bourgeois women's movement; in 1913 she joined the Münchner Schriftstellerinnen-Verein. Baudissin founded the "Münchner Frauenclub" (Munich Women's Club) in 1914. Today only her non-fiction books, the book "Spemanns goldenes Buch der Sitten" (1901) written by her and her husband, or her highly touristic travelogues in "Sie am Seil" (1914) are remembered. The story "Adam" by Eva von Baudissin (1869-1943) describes the competition between two men for a girl and the consequences of this. While Adam, like the girl Luise, sees "work and inner satisfaction" as the most important things in life, the Italian Postino only understands this as "love, dance, play, drink and love again": "They fought an unequal battle: he for abandoning the world, for quiet resignation – the other offered all the good things in life." (p. 4f.) Despite the similarity, Adam finally decides against love: "It was not acceptable for a girl's hand [...] to overthrow the construction of his existence." (S. 45) Datum: 2019
Author
Peter Czoik