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The later politician and writer Ika Freudenberg (1858-1912), born in Raubach near Neuwied, first came into contact with the modern women's movement in 1892. In 1896 she became president of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung geistiger Interessen der Frau, the later Verein für Fraueninteressen, founded at the suggestion of Anita Augspurg (1857-1943), Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924) and others in 1894. Freudenberg, who lived privately with Goudstikker from 1899, was a board member of numerous other women's associations and wrote several essays on current women's issues. Her last great and comprehensive work "Die Frau und die Kultur des öffentlichen Lebens" (Women and the Culture of Public Life) was published in 1910. 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. Freudenberg's letter to Helene Raff (1865-1942) is dated before 9 September 1912 and begins with the slightly euphoric words: "Dear Miss Raff! Rumour has it that you might [...] be invited to a lecture." Datum: 2019
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Peter Czoik