Description
Carry Brachvogel (1864-1942), born in Munich as the daughter of a Jewish banker, publishes her first novel "Alltagsmenschen" (Everyday People) in 1895, which describes the fate of a young woman who fails in her traditional role as a wife and has an extramarital relationship. In the "Hebbel und die moderne Frau" (Hebbel and the modern woman - 1912) lecture she held there, she substantiates her demand for a new self-image for women. Together with Emma Haushofer-Merk (1854-1925) she founds the Münchner Schriftstellerinnen-Verein in 1913.In 1933 the association is dissolved and Brachvogel is banned from publishing.She died shortly after her deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. 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 addition to information about the weather, the personal letters to Helene Raff also deal with England and its government. In her machine-printed letter dated 27 January 1926, Brachvogel then reports on the successful "seizure" of 30 marks for the "Marlitt nieces" at the "Notbund für geistige Arbeiter" (Aid association for intellectual workers): "I could now possibly send them something from our fund but I think it would be better to do it in about four weeks. You can approach the 'aid association' only every six weeks, and even then I can't get 30 marks every time because there are so many applications." The "Marlitt nieces" are nieces of the writer Eugenie Marlitt (1825-1887), best-selling author of the family magazine "Die Gartenlaube". Datum: 2019
Author
Peter Czoik