100 Days - 26

Day 26

Notebook, 2017
© Susanne Palzer

05 October 2019

I discover Annemarie Schwarzenbach and read up on Else Lasker-Schüler.  In our current political climate - local and global - I am intensely interested in this period between the two world wars of the past century, which sadly has too much resonance with present developments. Many women artists and intellectuals of the 1920s and 1930s appear breathtakingly contemporary and many explored issues of women's rights, equality and identity - breaking ground in a multitude of areas in the process. Gradually and inevitably they got caught up in the consequences of the rise of the far right across the world. Suffering conflict, hardship, denunciation, expulsion, emigration or death.