Nachlass von Eva Gräfin von Baudissin (1869-1943) – BSB Baudissiniana / A,8,2,2. Eva Gräfin von Baudissin (1869-1943) Nachlass: Ausflüge und Vorträge im Deutschen Frauenclub München e.V. - BSB Baudissiniana A.VIII.2.2

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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. The text, "What do you love the most?" by Eva von Baudissin (1869-1943) poses the question of "which of the objects surrounding us that form the so-called framework around our existence, are we most fond of." (p. 1) Baudissin points out that it is not the everyday things that warm our hearts, but the "objects filled with inner values". Women have a special part to play in this: they possess all sorts of little things, "about whose happiness and possession only they [know]" (p. 3); quite the opposite to their husbands, who only see childishness and foolishness in them. The second part is a report on an excursion to Schliersee: "The Munich Women's Club strives to inspire its members in as many cultural areas as possible and to deepen their interest in beauty in nature and art." (p. 1) One highlight is the visit to Silberfuchsfarm, whose worldwide reputation is "based on women's cleaning needs". Other destinations are Ebersberg and Wasserburg am Inn. "But the Women's Club also knows how to give more prosaic undertakings a special character." (p. 3) One example is a lecture on Perugia and its university. Datum: 2019