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Extraordinary Women


Stefanie Zweig: The House on Rothschild Avenue I have now read. Soon more. At the moment I read Eva Menasse: Vienna .

just appeared Dieter Wunderlich: Extraordinary Women. 18 portraits (Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN: 978-3-492-25459-5
270 p., 18 fig, 8.95 € (D)). The book is available in October in bookstores everywhere.

the author about his book:
Some have portrayed in this book except Ordinary women also messy. In the selection but I felt something else: I was looking for exceptional individuals who violate gender role expectations in their current order, therefore not "properly" behave. The impressive examples readers - encourage them to go their own way instead of letting yourself go critical, because a democratic society depends on self-conscious individuals with their own opinions - and readers.

Content:

• Lola Montez (1821-1861): "I am the mistress des Königs!«
• Franziska zu Reventlow (1871–1918): »Ich will überhaupt lauter Unmögliches«
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919): »Herrlich eine Zeit, die gewaltige Probleme aufwirft«
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927): »Autos und Fahrräder haben Rücklichter. Warum nicht ich?«
• Mata Hari (1876–1917): »Alles ist eine Illusion!«
• Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964): "If I was allowed to keep the stirrups of the Knights of Light, it was justified my existence"
• Karen ("Tania") Blixen (1885-1962): "It is a heavy burden to bear alone a farm on his shoulders,"
• Anita Berber (1899-1928): "Dances of Vice, horror, and ecstasy"
• Fleisser he (1901-1974): "The love we have left out"
• Erika Mann (1905-1969): "It will be up to us to fill the minds and hearts of Germans with new ideas, hopes"
• Elly Beinhorn (1907-2007): "New wind beneath my wings"
• Rosa Parks (1913-2005): "I just knew that I was tired of being pushed around,"
• Edith Piaf (1915 & ndash , 1963): "Non, je ne regrette rien"
• Sophie Scholl (1921-1943): "Prove by the fact that you think differently,"
• Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962): "The only way for me to be something that was that I was someone else,"
• Janis Joplin (1943-1970): "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young"
• Uschi Obermaier (1946): "Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali (* 1969): "I wanted to be a human, an individual with its own life,"