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Max Halbe (1865-1944), born in Güttland near Gdansk, settled as a freelance writer in Berlin, where he celebrated his greatest success with his drama "Jugend" (Youth – 1893). The play, which similar to "Frühlings Erwachen" (Spring Awakening) by Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) deals with early sexuality, became the name used for the art and literature magazine "Jugend", published in Munich in 1896, and the "Jugendstil" movement named after it. Halbe stood up for plays that were forbidden by censorship throughout his life. 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. The two cards to Helene Raff dated 1909 and 1935 respectively contain information about the Munich librarian, literary historian and Heyse editor Dr Erich Petzet (1870-1928) as well as Raff's request for an interview with Max Halbe: "I am at your disposal for the requested 'interview', although I generally dread such a thing." Datum: 2019
Author
Peter Czoik