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Ruth Leuwerik
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Ottilie Roederstein
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Marie Taglioni
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Anna Freifrau von Borries
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Violette Morris
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Hanna Kirchner
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Manal al-Sharif
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Ruth Liepman
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Adriana Zarri
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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born on October 4, 1898 in Zmajevac/Baranya, Hungary (today: Croatia)
died on April 27, 1944 in Auschwitz (Oświęcim/Poland)
Hungarian-Yugoslavian textile artist
80th anniversary of her death on April 27, 2024
Bauhaus student Otti Berger believed that "...you don't necessarily have to paint pictures to be an artist" (Interview, 1928, p. 24) when she launched a promising career as a textile artist at the end of the 1920s. The avowed avant-gardist, for whom the "conventional" was "never art," is today considered one of the pioneers of textile design. Berger firmly rejected weaving as a purely decorative, or even figurative, art. Believing that weaving was in need of "research work" (Berger, 1930), she devoted herself entirely to the development of innovative fabric mixtures that she then registered for patents under imaginative names such as "Lamé-plume." She sold creations under the brand name Otti Berger Fabrics to companies and designed textile accessories for architectural jewels such as the Villa Schminke built by Hans Scharoun in 1933 in the Saxon town of Löbau.
In 1936 her career came to an abrupt end when the Nazis withdrew her license as a "model designer" because of her…read more
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Lucille Ball
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(née Dorothea Nolte)
Born 25 April 1899 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia
Died 9 July 1973 in Hanover
German jurist and civil administrator, member of anti-Nazi resistance, first female Regierungspräsidentin (District President) of Hanover, postwar women’s political leader
Biography
This exceptionally competent lawyer, civil and political leader demonstrated her superior qualities again and again in what had previously been exclusively male domains. Courageous directness, practical intelligence, determination and effectiveness characterized her lifelong contributions to the public good. As a founder of the Deutschen Frauenring (DFR; German Women’s Organization) she held the belief, shared by many after the Second World War, that the political participation of women in particular was crucial to rebuilding the devastated country and advancing world peace:
“Women today must gain awareness of their importance as a factor in the political realm….Our joining together as a women’s peace union will be a path which leads to a German future which women help shape.”
1899-1933: Germany’s first female public administrator
Dorothea Nolte grew up in Warendorf (Westphalia), one of seven children. She studied law in Münster with the goal of working in…read more
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Shirley MacLaine
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