Three German women
Subtitle: personal histories from the twentieth century
By: by Erika Esau
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781527556973
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Biography
Other titles: 3 German women
Description: This book presents the life stories of three women of the German-speaking realm whose lives inspired the author directly: mathematician Maria Weber Steinberg (1919-2013); journalist Irmgard Rexroth-Kern (1907-1983); and Viennese art historian Fr. Dr. Anna von Spitzmüller (1903-2001). The lives of these three women serve as emotional mirrors to the cultural transformations and tumultuous history of the 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of intellectual European women in this era. Each woman was related to men who played a prominent role in European cultural life, men who received some recognition in history books. As intellectual professionals, these women, in contrast, received very few public accolades for their important achievements. Placing them in the cultural context of the times in Germany and Austria, the book highlights the traumatic choices imposed on ordinary people by political and social circumstances over which they had no control. Along with the women's individual stories, the chapters focus on overarching themes, including educated women's roles in European society, narratives of perseverance in confronting Nazism, and specific historical background describing the incidents affecting their life trajectories--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index.