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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. Eva von Baudissin's essay Von den Koseworten is an open plea for the undisguised use of nicknames: "Is it really only a sign of effeminacy to use a kind word for a loved one? Haven't tenderness and longing always looked for a specific expression?" (p. 1) She borrows from the history of literature for this: Elder Edda, Romeo and Juliet, Matthias Claudius, Walther von der Vogelweide. The latter also campaigned for the use of the word "Weib" (broad) instead of "Frau" (woman) in German, as it "'Crowns everything,' while women are often not to be trusted". (p. 2) Datum: 2019
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Peter Czoik