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Max Bernstein (1854-1925), born in Fürth, lived as a lawyer in Munich from 1881, where he represented, among others, the poets Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) and Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921). He was also a theatre critic for the "Münchner Neueste Nachrichten". Together with his wife Elsa (1866-1949) he ran a literary salon. Topics such as modern education for girls, free sexuality, warnings against anti-Semitism, etc. were among his ideals. The painter and poet Helene Raff (1865-1942), who was born in Wiesbaden, had been involved in the bourgeois women's movement since the 1890s; she joined the Verein für Fraueninteressen founded in Munich (1894) in 1899 and the female writers' association in 1913. From the very beginning, her works have focused on the transformation of the role of women in the present. In a letter to Helene Raff (1865-1942), Bernstein states that he was asked by the playwright and translator Ludwig Fulda (1862-1939) to make a request to the painter Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920), the literary historian Richard Weltrich (1844-1913) and the publisher Georg Hirth (1841-1916): "that her [Raff's] name may be put on the invitation. I just (10 minutes ago) wrote to the three gentlemen." (23.2.1909) Together with his friend Fulda, Bernstein developed marketing strategies for literary works and alternatives to circumvent censorship. Datum: 2019
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Peter Czoik