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The Munich-based author and journalist Eva Gräfin von Baudissin (1869-1943) 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. This essay by Eva von Baudissin (1869-1943) is a cultural-historical discourse on a woman's dressing table: "It sees its mistress in the deepest négligé and slowly accompanies her through the various phases until her outer appearance is perfect." (p. 1) She reflects on the origins of mirrors and dressers and draws parallels to today's world. For the modern woman there are dressing tables that are "comfortable and pretty at the same time" (p. 9), and also the modern, elegant man "needs a dressing table to himself". Baudissin concludes: "The man competes successfully with the woman in this field as well!" (S. 10) Datum: 2019
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Peter Czoik